Home Affairs Select Committee

The Home Affairs Select Committee is a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Remit

The Home Affairs Committee is one of the House of Commons Select Committees related to government departments: its terms of reference are to examine "the expenditure, administration and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies".

The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It invites written evidence from interested parties and holds public evidence sessions, usually in committee rooms at the House of Commons, although it does have the power to meet away from Westminster.

At the end of each inquiry, the Committee will normally agree a Report based on the evidence received. Such Reports are published and made available on the internet. Reports usually contain recommendations to the Government and other bodies. The Government by convention responds to reports within about two months of publication. These responses are also published.

Inquiries

Current inquiries are focusing on

Reform of the Police Funding Formula
Countering extremism
The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q2 2015)
Police investigations and the role of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
The work of the Home Office
Migration crisis
Immigration: skill shortages
The work of the Home Secretary
Psychoactive substances

Recent inquiries have focused on:

Asylum
European Union Justice and Home Affairs opt-out
e-Crime
Leadership and standards in the police
Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming
Drugs
Hate Crime ^[1]

Membership

Yvette Cooper took the position of Leader of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 19 October 2016.

The remaining members of the Committee were formally appointed on 8 July 2015.

	Party	Constituency
Yvette Cooper MP Chairperson	Labour	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Victoria Atkins MP	Conservative	Louth and Horncastle
James Berry MP	Conservative	Kingston and Surbiton
David Burrowes MP	Conservative	Enfield Southgate
Nusrat Ghani MP	Conservative	Wealden
Ranil Jayawardena MP	Conservative	North East Hampshire
Tim Loughton MP	Conservative	East Worthing and Shoreham
Stuart McDonald MP	Scottish National Party	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Naz Shah MP	Labour	Bradford West
Chuka Umunna MP	Labour	Streatham
David Winnick MP	Labour	Walsall North

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Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection Such changes are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010		Mary Macleod MP (Conservative)	Brentford and Isleworth	→		James Clappison MP (Conservative)	Hertsmere	Hansard
14 February 2011		Aidan Burley MP (Conservative)	Cannock Chase	→		Michael Ellis MP (Conservative)	Northampton North	Hansard
22 October 2012		Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour Co-op)	Cardiff South and Penarth	→	Vacant			Vote & Proceedings
26 November 2012	Vacant			→		Karl Turner MP (Labour)	Kingston upon Hull East	Hansard
4 February 2012		Karl Turner MP (Labour)	Kingston upon Hull East	→		Chris Ruane MP (Labour)	Vale of Clwyd	Hansard
4 November 2013		Steve McCabe MP (Labour)	Birmingham, Selly Oak	→		Ian Austin MP (Labour)	Dudley North	Hansard
4 November 2013		Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour)	Houghton and Sunderland South	→		Paul Flynn MP (Labour)	Newport West	Hansard
4 November 2013		Chris Ruane MP (Labour)	Vale of Clwyd	→		Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour)	Bolton South East	Hansard
6 September 2016		Rt. Hon Keith Vaz MP (Labour)	Leicester East	→	Vacant
19 October 2016	Vacant			→		Rt. Hon Yvette Cooper MP (Labour)	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford

Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee

	Party	Constituency	First elected	Method
Yvette Cooper	Labour	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford	19 October 2016	Elected by the House of Commons^[2]
Keith Vaz	Labour	Leicester East	26 July 2007	Elected by the Select Committee^[3]
John Denham	Labour	Southampton Itchen	15 July 2003	Elected by the Select Committee
Chris Mullin	Labour	Sunderland South	18 July 2001	Elected by the Select Committee
Robin Corbett	Labour	Birmingham Erdington	19 October 1999	Elected by the Select Committee
Chris Mullin	Labour	Sunderland South	17 July 1997	Elected by the Select Committee
Ivan Lawrence	Conservative	Burton	15 July 1992	Elected by the Select Committee
John Wheeler	Conservative	Westminster North	June 1987	Elected by the Select Committee

Election results

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes.^[4] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.^[5]

12 July 2017^[6]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Yvette Cooper	Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes

19 October 2016^[7]
Candidate		1st round		2nd round		3rd round
Candidate		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Yvette Cooper	216	39.9	235	45.4	281	58.9
	Caroline Flint	149	27.5	161	31.1	196	31.2
	Chuka Umunna	111	20.5	112	21.6	Eliminated
	Paul Flynn	65	12.0	Eliminated
Not redistributed				23	4.3	64	11.8
Valid votes		541		518		477

17 June 2015^[8]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Keith Vaz	412	68.2
	Fiona Mactaggart	192	31.8
Not redistributed
Valid votes		604

9 June 2010^[9]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Keith Vaz	336	58.1
	Alun Michael	242	41.9
Not redistributed
Valid votes		578

References

External links

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Current Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom

Commons

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Lords

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Joint

Select	Consolidation, &c., Bills Joint Committee on Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee on Draft Protection of Charities Bill Human Rights National Security Strategy Joint Committee on Palace of Westminster Statutory Instruments

Statutory

Commons	House of Commons Commission Administration Estimate Audit Members Estimate Members Estimate Audit Public Accounts Commission Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
Joint	Ecclesiastical Committee Intelligence and Security

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