The Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee is a

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of the

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in the

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that came into existence in April 2023. It is the successor to the previous Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, which existed from 2009 to 2016.

Formation

The House of Commons agreed to the establishment of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee on 28 October 2008, following the establishment of the

Department of Energy and Climate Change The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom created on 3 October 2008, by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions related to energy of the Department for Busin ...

on 3 October 2008. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the department, and any departmental bodies.

Reformation

As the department was disbanded and merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to form the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016, the committee was also abolished. The committee was revitalised with the formation of the

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is a department of His Majesty's Government established on 7 February 2023 after a government reshuffle, the first by prime minister Rishi Sunak. The new department took on the energy ...

. Candidates for chair were

Kirsty Blackman Kirsty Ann Blackman (; born 20 March 1986) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen North since 2015. Blackman was re-elected in 2017 and 2019 and currently serves as the SNP Spok ...

, Stewart Malcolm McDonald and

Angus MacNeil Angus Brendan MacNeil ( gd, Aonghas Brianan MacNèill; born 21 July 1970) is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for covering the Outer Hebrides. Background MacNeil was educated at Castlebay Secondary School on the isla ...

Membership

Current membership

The committee's chair

was elected on 26 April 2023. The other members of the committee were formally appointed on 12 June 2023. As of June 2023, the membership of the committee is as follows:

Changes since 2019

Former membership

The membership of the committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows: Source
Energy and Climate Change 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.

References

External links

Committee website

Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives
{{UKParliamentCommittees Department of Energy and Climate Change Select Committees of the British House of Commons