The Panel of Chairs (formerly the Chairman's Panel) are members of the
House of Commons of the
United Kingdom responsible for chairing
public bill committees and other General Committees, as well as debates in
Westminster Hall, the parallel
debating chamber
A debate chamber is a room for people to discuss and debate. Debate chambers are used in governmental and educational bodies, such as a parliament, congress, city council, or a university, either for formal proceedings or for informal discourse, ...
. The three
Deputy Speakers, who are automatically members, are responsible for chairing Committees of the Whole House. Other members may act as temporary chairs of Committees of the Whole House. The Panel is not itself generally thought of as a committee, but it does have the power to meet to consider matters relating to procedure in the general committees and report its findings to the House of Commons.
Members
The panel consists of the three Deputy Speakers and no fewer than 10 MPs appointed by the
Speaker, two of whom are appointed pursuant to section 1(3) of the
Parliament Act 1911 by the
Committee of Selection to be consulted by the Speaker before declaring a bill to be a
money bill.
Members of the Panel of Chairs, as of 15 October 2021:
The Panel of Chairs was nominated by the Speaker on 22 June 2017:
*Sir
Lindsay Hoyle (Labour),
Chairman of Ways and Means
*Dame
Eleanor Laing (Conservative), First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
*Dame
Rosie Winterton
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(Labour), Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
*Sir
David Amess (Conservative)
*
Ian Austin (Independent, previously Labour)
*
Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op))
*Sir
Henry Bellingham (Conservative)
*
Clive Betts
Clive James Charles Betts (born 13 January 1950) is a British Labour Party politician and former economist, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010 and is the current MP for the successor seat of She ...
(Labour)
*
Peter Bone (Conservative)
*Sir
Graham Brady (Conservative)
*
Karen Buck (Labour)
*Sir
Christopher Chope
Sir Christopher Robert Chope (born 19 May 1947) is a British barrister and politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch in Dorset since 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected in 1983 for ...
(Conservative)
*Sir
David Crausby
Sir David Anthony Crausby (born 17 June 1946) is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton North East from 1997 to 2019.
Born in Bury, Lancashire, Crausby worked as a turner and later became a workplace r ...
(Labour)
*
Geraint Davies (Labour (Co-op))
*
Philip Davies (Conservative)
*
Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
*
Nigel Evans (Conservative)
*Sir
Roger Gale
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(Conservative)
*
Mike Gapes (Labour (Co-op))
*Dame
Cheryl Gillan (Conservative)
*
James Gray
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(Conservative)
*
David Hanson (Labour)
*
Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
*
Stewart Hosie
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(Scottish National Party)
*
George Howarth (Labour)
*Sir
Edward Leigh (Conservative)
*
Steve McCabe
Stephen James "Steve" McCabe (born 4 August 1955) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Selly Oak since 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was previously MP for Birmingham Hall Green from 1997 ...
(Labour)
*
Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
*
Anne Main
Anne Margaret Main (born 17 May 1957) is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005, and was re-elected in 2010, 2015 and ...
(Conservative)
*
Madeleine Moon
Madeleine Moon (born 27 March 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgend from 2005 to 2019, when she lost her seat to the Welsh Conservative candidate Jamie Wallis.
Early life
Born in No ...
(Labour)
*
Albert Owen
Albert Owen (born 10 August 1959) is a Welsh people, Welsh Welsh Labour, Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency), Ynys Môn from 2001 to 2 ...
(Labour)
*
Ian Paisley
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(Democratic Unionist Party)
*
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
*
Laurence Robertson
Laurence Anthony Robertson (born 29 March 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury since 1997 and served as Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee for seven years, from 201 ...
(Conservative)
*
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
*
Joan Ryan (Labour)
*
Virendra Sharma (Labour)
*
Gary Streeter
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(Conservative)
*
Graham Stringer
Graham Eric Stringer (born 17 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician serving as MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997. Before entering Parliament, he served as leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996, and chair o ...
(Labour)
*
Charles Walker Charles or Charlie Walker may refer to:
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* Charles Walker (British po ...
(Conservative)
*
Phil Wilson (Labour)
As of December 2015, the members were as follows:
*
Lindsay Hoyle (Labour),
Chairman of Ways and Means
*
Eleanor Laing (Conservative), First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
*
Natascha Engel (Labour), Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
*
David Amess (Conservative)
*
Adrian Bailey (Labour)
*
Clive Betts
Clive James Charles Betts (born 13 January 1950) is a British Labour Party politician and former economist, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010 and is the current MP for the successor seat of She ...
(Labour)
*
Peter Bone (Conservative)
*
Graham Brady (Conservative)
*
Karen Buck (Labour)
*
Christopher Chope
Sir Christopher Robert Chope (born 19 May 1947) is a British barrister and politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch in Dorset since 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected in 1983 for ...
(Conservative)
*
David Crausby
Sir David Anthony Crausby (born 17 June 1946) is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton North East from 1997 to 2019.
Born in Bury, Lancashire, Crausby worked as a turner and later became a workplace r ...
(Labour)
*
Geraint Davies (Labour)
*
Philip Davies (Conservative)
*
Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
*
Nigel Evans (Conservative)
*
Roger Gale
Sir Roger James Gale (born 20th August 1943) is a British politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for North Thanet since 1983. He had a career in journalism and broadcasting from 1964, around the same time as he joined the C ...
(Conservative)
*
Mike Gapes (Labour)
*
Cheryl Gillan (Conservative)
*
James Gray
James, Jim, or Jimmy Gray may refer to:
Politicians
* James Gray (Australian politician) (1820–1889), member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
* James Gray (British politician) (born 1954), British politician
* James Gray (mayor) (1862–1916 ...
(Conservative)
*
Fabian Hamilton
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Educati ...
(Labour)
*
David Hanson (Labour)
*
Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
*
George Howarth (Labour)
*
Edward Leigh (Conservative)
*
Anne Main
Anne Margaret Main (born 17 May 1957) is a Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the general election of 2005, and was re-elected in 2010, 2015 and ...
(Conservative)
*
Steve McCabe
Stephen James "Steve" McCabe (born 4 August 1955) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Selly Oak since 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he was previously MP for Birmingham Hall Green from 1997 ...
(Labour))
*
Alan Meale (Labour))
*
Madeleine Moon
Madeleine Moon (born 27 March 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgend from 2005 to 2019, when she lost her seat to the Welsh Conservative candidate Jamie Wallis.
Early life
Born in No ...
(Labour))
*
David Nuttall
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(Conservative)
*
Albert Owen
Albert Owen (born 10 August 1959) is a Welsh people, Welsh Welsh Labour, Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency), Ynys Môn from 2001 to 2 ...
(Labour)
*
Andrew Percy
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(Conservative)
*
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
*
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
*
Gary Streeter
Sir Gary Nicholas Streeter (born 2 October 1955) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Since 1997 he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Devon, previously holding the nearby seat of Plymouth Sutton between ...
(Conservative)
*
Graham Stringer
Graham Eric Stringer (born 17 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician serving as MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997. Before entering Parliament, he served as leader of Manchester City Council from 1984 to 1996, and chair o ...
(Labour)
*
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
*
Valerie Vaz (Labour)
*
Charles Walker Charles or Charlie Walker may refer to:
Politics
* Charles Walker (Fijian politician) (1928–2021), Fijian civil servant, politician and diplomat
* Charles Walker (Georgia politician) (born 1947), American politician
* Charles Walker (British po ...
(Conservative)
*
Phil Wilson (Labour)
References
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Committees of the British House of Commons