The parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom are
committees
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. Each consists of a small number of Members of Parliament from the
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
, or
peers from the
House of Lords
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, or a mix of both, appointed to deal with particular areas or issues; most are made up of members of the Commons. The majority of parliamentary committees are
select committees. The remit of these committees vary depending on whether they are committees of the
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
or the
House of Lords
The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminst ...
.
House of Commons
Select committees
Select committees in the Commons are designed to oversee the work of departments and agencies, examine topical issues affecting the country or individual regions or nations, and review and advise on the procedures, workings and rules of the House.
*Departmental select committees are designed to oversee and examine the work of
individual government departments and any related departmental bodies and agencies.
*Topical select committees examine topical issues of importance.
*Internal select committees have responsibility with respect to the day-to-day running of Parliament.
General Committees
*
Public bill committee
In the British House of Commons, public bill committees (known as standing committees before 2006) consider Bills – proposed Acts of Parliament. The House of Lords does not have such committees, as Bills are usually considered by the House as a ...
s (formerly known as Standing Committees on Bills)
*
Delegated Legislation Committees
*
European Committees
*
Northern Ireland Grand Committee
The Northern Ireland Grand Committee is one of four such grand committees in the United Kingdom Parliament. The other three are for Scotland, Wales and, as of October 2015, England. The membership of the committee includes all participating Nor ...
*
Regional Affairs Committee
*
Scottish Grand Committee
The Scottish Grand Committee is a committee of the House of Commons. It is not a select committee (see Scottish Affairs Select Committee), but rather a grand committee composed of all 59 Scottish MPs (72 MPs prior to 2005).
It has its origins i ...
*
Welsh Grand Committee
The Welsh Grand Committee ( cy, Uwch Bwyllgor Cymreig), is a committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It is one of three such grand committees in the United Kingdom Parliament; the other two are for Scotland and Northern Ireland. ...
Others
*
Advisory Committee on Works of Art
*
House of Commons Commission
**
Administration Estimate Audit Committee
**
Members Estimate Committee
**
Members Estimate Audit Committee
*
Public Accounts Commission
The Public Accounts Commission is a UK body created under the National Audit Act 1983 to audit the National Audit Office, i.e., to watch the watchers.
*
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
The Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (SCEC), or simply the Speaker's Committee, is a body created under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 to scrutinise the Electoral Commission.
*
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
House of Lords
The House of Lords appoint Sessional select committees to examine and explore general issues such as the
constitution
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When these pr ...
or the
economy
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; the European Union Committee scrutinises EU action via its sub-committees; each session Special Inquiry committees are appointed to examine specific issues.
Sessional
*
Communications and Digital Committee
The Communications and Digital Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords with the broad remit to "consider the media, digital and creative industries". In recent years, the Committee has held inquiries into the Chairmanship of the BBC ...
*
Constitution Committee
The Constitution Committee is a cross-party select committee of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The committee's remit is "to examine the constitutional implications of all public bills coming befor ...
*
International Agreements Committee
*
International Relations and Defence Committee
The House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, previously just the International Relations Committee, is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee is to "consid ...
*
Science and Technology Committee
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence fo ...
*
Economic Affairs Committee
** Finance Bill Sub-Committee
*
European Union Committee
The European Union Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its terms of reference are "To consider European Union documents and other matters relating to the European Union", as well as "to ...
** Environment Sub-Committee
** Goods Sub-Committee
** Security & Justice Sub-Committee
** Services Sub-Committee
Special Inquiry (2019–21 Session)
* Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 Select Committee
* Food, Poverty, Health & the Environment Select Committee
* Social and Economic Impact of Gambling Select Committee
* Democracy & Digital Technologies Select Committee
Legislative
*
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Select Committee
The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee is a committee of UK parliamentarians. Members are drawn from the House of Lords. The committee has several primary functions.
Orders
The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee is ap ...
(DPRRC)
*
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (formerly the Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee) is a select committee of the House of Lords that refers secondary legislation, such as statutory instruments, to the House that it considers inte ...
(SLSC)
*
Hybrid Instruments Committee
The Hybrid Instruments Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The role of the committee is to look into all opposed hybrid instruments (i.e., a statutory instrument that, but for its enabling ...
Internal
*
House of Lords Commission
The House of Lords Commission is a select committee of the House of Lords which provides strategic and political direction for the House of Lords Administration. Its remit also includes approving the annual Estimate, overseeing financial support a ...
*
Finance Committee
*
Liaison Committee
*
Conduct Committee
The Conduct Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has a remit oversee the Codes of Conduct and coordinate with the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards. The committee was establishe ...
*
Procedure and Privileges Committee
The Procedure and Privileges Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to review House procedure and privileges.
Membership
As of October 2022, the membership of ...
*
Committee of Selection
Domestic
*
Services Committee
The Services Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function ...
Joint house committees
Joint Committees are committees formed to examine a particular issue, whose membership is from both the Commons and the Lords.
*
Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills
The Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills (commonly known as Consolidation Bills Committee) is a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Committee was first established in 1894 with a remit to consider consolidation bills. ...
*
Ecclesiastical Committee
The Ecclesiastical Committee is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Commi ...
*
Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) is a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formed to "monitor the implementation and development" of the United Kingdom Government's National Security Strategy". It ...
*
Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Joint Committee on Human Rights is a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to consider human rights issues in the United Kingdom.
Membership
As at November 2022, the members of the committee ...
*
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, appointed to oversee the work of the UK intelligence community.
The committee was established in 1994 by the I ...
*
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
*
Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills
The Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills was a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee was to scrutinise bills intended to make the language of tax law simpler, while preserving the effect of the exis ...
*
Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster
The Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster was a Joint Select Committee appointed to assess the options contained within an independent assessment report on a proposed major restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster and "make rec ...
Former committees
Occasionally, committees will be discharged. This occurs when existing committees are no longer required or have their responsibilities transferred to a different committee, effectively rendering the original committee void. It is more common, however, for committees to be discharged as a result of the abolition of
government departments
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, for example the abolition of the
Department of Education and Skills in June 2007 resulted in the abolition of the
Education and Skills Select Committee
The Education & Skills Select Committee was a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The official name was the ''House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee''.
The committee was abolished as a result of the ...
shortly afterwards.
Commons
Departmental
*
Agriculture Select Committee
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- dissolved in 2001, and replaced by the
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee following the replacement of the
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries with the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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*
Business and Enterprise Select Committee - dissolved 30 September 2009, and replaced by the
Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee following the replacement of the
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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with the
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Constitutional Affairs Select Committee
The Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee (est. January 2003) of the United Kingdom was a select committee of the House of Commons which looked into the expenditure, policy and administration of the Department for Constitutional Affairs and as ...
- dissolved 25 July 2007, and replaced by the
Justice Select Committee
The Justice Select Committee of the United Kingdom is a select committee of the House of Commons which scrutinizes the policy, administration, and spending of the Ministry of Justice. In addition, the committee examines the work of the Law Offi ...
following the replacement of the
Department for Constitutional Affairs with the
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Lists of current ministries of justice
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.
*
Education and Employment Select Committee - split in 2001 into the
Education and Skills Select Committee
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The committee was abolished as a result of the ...
and the
Work and Pensions Select Committee following the splitting of the
Department for Education and Employment into two distinct departments.
*
Education and Skills Select Committee
The Education & Skills Select Committee was a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The official name was the ''House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee''.
The committee was abolished as a result of the ...
- dissolved 25 July 2007, and replaced with the
Children, Schools and Families Select Committee
The Education Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Education and any ass ...
and the
Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee
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following the replacement of the
Department of Education and Skills with the
Department for Children, Schools and Families
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and the
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
*
Energy and Climate Change Select Committee - abolished after the
Department for Energy and Climate Change was merged into the new
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is a department of His Majesty's Government. The department was formed during a machinery of government change on 14 July 2016, following Theresa May's appointment as Prim ...
in July 2016.
*
Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee - abolished in 2001, with the environment portion of the committee's remit being transferred to the
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee and the remainder being transferred to the new
Transport, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee following changes to several government departments following the
2001 general election.
*
Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee
The Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee was a Select committee (United Kingdom), select committee of the British House of Commons, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee was to ...
- dissolved 30 September 2009 following the abolition of the
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Technically replaced by the
Science and Technology Select Committee.
*
Lord Chancellor's Department Committee
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– abolished in 2003 following the merging of the
Lord Chancellor's Department
The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department answerable to the Lord Chancellor with jurisdiction over England and Wales.
Created in 1885 as the Lord Chancellor's Office with a small staff to assist the Lord Chancel ...
into the
Department for Constitutional Affairs
*
Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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– abolished in 2006 and replaced with the
Communities and Local Government Select Committee
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following the abolition of the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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, which was replaced by the
Department for Communities and Local Government
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*
Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee
The Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015.
Remit
The committee was created in response to changes to the machinery of govern ...
– created in 2010 to scrutinise the work of
Nick Clegg
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, the Deputy Prime Minister, who had responsibility for political and constitutional reform in the
coalition government
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. On 3 June 2015 it was merged with the
Public Administration Select Committee
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to form the
.
*
Public Administration Select Committee
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– merged with the
Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee
The Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015.
Remit
The committee was created in response to changes to the machinery of govern ...
on 3 June 2015 to form the
.
*
Science and Technology Committee
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence fo ...
– abolished in 2007 following the creation of the
Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee
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*
Social Security Select Committee – abolished in 2001 and replaced with the
Work and Pensions Select Committee following the replacement of the
Department of Social Security
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with the
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*
Trade and Industry Select Committee - dissolved 25 July 2007, and replaced with the
Business and Enterprise Select Committee following the replacement of the
Department of Trade and Industry with the
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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.
*
Transport, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee – abolished after less than one year and replaced by the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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Select Committee Select committee may refer to:
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and the
Transport Select Committee
Domestic
All five domestic committees were abolished in 2005 and replaced by a single committee – the
Administration Committee
The Administration Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has a remit "to consider the services provided for and by the House of Commons".
Membership
As of July 2022, the members of t ...
.
*
Accommodation and Works Committee
The Administration Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has a remit "to consider the services provided for and by the House of Commons".
Membership
As of July 2022, the members of t ...
*
Administration Committee
The Administration Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has a remit "to consider the services provided for and by the House of Commons".
Membership
As of July 2022, the members of t ...
*
Broadcasting Committee
*
Catering Committee
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*
Information Committee
Internal
*
Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons (examined how Commons practices and procedures could be modernised)
Legislative
*
Legislative grand committees
Regional
The House of Commons set up eight regional select committees in November 2008, whose members were first appointed on 3 March 2009. The committees were formed of five
Labour members, as opposed to the nine members from various parties as was agreed in the original motion, due to the refusal of the
Conservatives and
Liberal Democrats to nominate any members as a sign of their opposition to setting up the committees. The resolution that formed the committees expired at the end of the 2005/10 Parliament. The succeeding coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats chose not to renew it.
*
East of England Regional Select Committee
The East of England Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committees of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on 12 November 2008, ...
*
East Midlands Regional Select Committee
*
North East Regional Select Committee
The North East Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committees of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on 12 November 2008, fol ...
*
North West Regional Select Committee
*
South East Regional Select Committee
*
South West Regional Select Committee
The South West Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committees of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on 12 November 2008, follo ...
*
West Midlands Regional Select Committee
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*
Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Select Committee
Lords
Topical
*
Barnett Formula Select Committee
*
*
Intergovernmental Organisations Select Committee
*
Select Committee on Regulators
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* ''Select'' (magazine), a British music magazine
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* ''Select Live'', New Zealand's C4 music program ...
Internal
*
House Committee (replaced by
House of Lords Commission
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)
*
Privileges and Conduct Committee
The Committee for Privileges and Conduct was a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom which considered issues relating to the privileges of the House of Lords and its members, as well as having oversight fo ...
(split into
Conduct Committee
The Conduct Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has a remit oversee the Codes of Conduct and coordinate with the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards. The committee was establishe ...
and
Procedure and Privileges Committee
The Procedure and Privileges Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to review House procedure and privileges.
Membership
As of October 2022, the membership of ...
)
Domestic
*
Administration and Works Committee (replaced by
Services Committee
The Services Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
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)
*
Information Committee (replaced by
Services Committee
The Services Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
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)
*
Refreshment Committee (replaced by
Services Committee
The Services Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by appointment, heredity or official function ...
)
*
House of Lords Offices Committee
Joint
*
Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform
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*
Joint Committee of Tax Simplification
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References
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