Science and Technology Select Committee
The Science and Technology Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The original Science and Technology Committee was abolished upon the creation of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee on 6 November 2007. However, just 19 months later, the government announced that it was re-establishing the committee following the recommendation of the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee[1] after the merging of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in June 2009. The House of Commons approved the re-establishment of the committee on 25 June 2009.[2] The committee was officially re-established on 1 October 2009 and has a remit to examine the work of the Government Office for Science.
Membership
The Chair and Members of the Committee at the end of the 2017 Parliament were:[3]
- Stephen Metcalfe (Chair) (Conservative)
- Victoria Borwick (Conservative)
- Stella Creasy (Labour (Co-op))
- Jim Dowd (Labour)
- Chris Green (Conservative)
- Dr Tania Mathias (Conservative)
- Carol Monaghan (Scottish National Party)
- Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op))
- Graham Stringer (Labour)
- Derek Thomas (Conservative)
- Matt Warman (Conservative)
The Committee's Chair, Nicola Blackwood, was announced in June 2015.[4] Members of the current 2015/16 session are:[5]
Members in the (2014/15) session of Parliament were as follows:
Source: Science and Technology Committee
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2011 | Alok Sharma MP (Conservative) | Reading West | → | Stephen McPartland MP (Conservative) | Stevenage | Hansard | ||
| 27 February 2012 | Gavin Barwell MP (Conservative) | Croydon Central | → | Caroline Dinenage MP (Conservative) | Gosport | Hansard | ||
| Stephen McPartland MP (Conservative) | Stevenage | Gareth Johnson MP (Conservative) | Dartford | |||||
| David Morris MP (Conservative) | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Sarah Newton MP (Conservative) | Truro and Falmouth | |||||
| Gregg McClymont MP (Labour) | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East |
→ | Hywel Williams MP (Plaid Cymru) | Arfon | ||||
| 11 June 2012 | Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour Co-op) | Stalybridge and Hyde | → | Jim Dowd MP (Labour) | Lewisham West and Penge | Hansard | ||
| 3 December 2012 | Gareth Johnson MP (Conservative) | Dartford | → | David Morris MP (Conservative) | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Hansard | ||
| 4 February 2013 | Caroline Dinenage MP (Conservative) | Gosport | → | David Tredinnick MP (Conservative) | Bosworth | Hansard | ||
See also
- Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
- Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords)
- Science and technology
References
- ↑ UK Parliament - MPs call for government to establish a House of Commons Science and Technology Committee following DIUS/BERR merger
- ↑ House of Commons Debates 25 June 2009
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2015/2015-membership/. Retrieved 12 July 2017. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Winning candidates for select committee Chairs announced". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
- ↑ "Science and Technology Committee - membership". UK Parliament. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
