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Health And Social Care Select Committee
The Health and Social Care Select Committee (abbreviated to HSC, HSCC and HSCSC) is a Departmental Select Committee of the British House of Commons, the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its remit is to examine the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its associated agencies and public bodies. Current membership Membership of the committee is as follows: Changes since 2024 2019-2024 Parliament The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020. Changes 2019-2024 2017-2019 Parliament Sarah Wollaston was re-elected as Chair on 12 July 2017, with other members elected on 11 September 2017 as follows: Changes 2017-2019 2015-2017 Parliament The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015. Changes 2015-2017 2010-2015 Parliament The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layla Moran
Layla Michelle Moran ( ; born 12 September 1982) is a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician. She has served as the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee since September 2024, and has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency), Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017. Moran attended schools in Brussels and Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston before taking her A-level, A-levels at Roedean School near Brighton. She studied physics at Imperial College London and completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, PGCE at Brunel University London. She subsequently worked as a maths and physics teacher. Moran unsuccessfully campaigned as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Battersea (UK Parliament constituency), Battersea at the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election; in the West Central (London Assembly constituency), West Central constituency at the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurrock (UK Parliament Constituency)
Thurrock is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2024 by Jen Craft of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile This industrial Essex seat, east of London, includes the towns of Grays, Essex, Grays, Tilbury and Purfleet, and 18 miles of the north bank of the Thames. Historically known for quarrying and heavy industry, it is now a retail destination thanks to the Lakeside Shopping Centre. Retail and distribution are big employers, while Tilbury Power Station has closed and Coryton oil refinery is being redeveloped as a business park. Tilbury is also London's major port, handling millions of tonnes of cargo a year and is a major cruise ship terminal. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 4.8% of the population based on a statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ealing Southall (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ealing, Southall (also Ealing Southall) is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Deirdre Costigan of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Constituency profile The constituency has relatively good road and rail transport, and numerous small to medium-size green spaces, and has had as many as three tube stations at its eastern extremes of its boundaries. Southall and Norwood Green, forming the western bulk of the seat, feature a high British Asian proportion of the population since the 1960s. British Indian ethnicity is the largest single ethnic group. British Asians account for 51% of the population, as at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, the majority of this minority is of Indian ethnicity (29.6%), with significant Hindu and Muslim populations, with the highest number of Sikh residents in any constituency in Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Costigan
Deirdre Theresa Costigan is a British politician and trade unionist who has been the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall in the United Kingdom House of Commons since 2024. Early career Costigan was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated to London in the 1990s. She was a shop steward for the trade union Unison. Before her election as an MP, she was Unison's national officer for disability equality. Political career In 2018, Costigan was elected as a Labour councillor for the Northolt Mandeville ward of Ealing London Borough Council. She was re-elected in 2022. She served as deputy leader of the council for the three years preceding her election in 2024 as an MP. In the 2024 general election, Costigan was elected the Member of parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall with 23,000 votes (49.1%) and a majority of 15,793 over the second place Conservative candidate. On 18 July 2024, she made her maiden speech A maiden speech is the first speech given by a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farnham And Bordon (UK Parliament Constituency)
Farnham and Bordon is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. It is a cross-county constituency covering parts of Hampshire and Surrey. It was first contested in the 2024 general election and is currently represented by Greg Stafford of the Conservative Party. A majority of the population, of the electorate and of the land area of this constituency come from the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, with the relevant wards of the District of East Hampshire making up a significant minority of the seat. Boundaries The constituency was created by the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, and is composed of the following wards: * The District of East Hampshire wards of Bramshott & Liphook, Grayshott, Headley, Lindford, Whitehill Chase, Whitehill Hogmoor & Greatham, and Whitehill Pinewood. * The Borough of Waverley wards of Farnham Bourne, Farnham Castle, Farnham Firgrove, Farnham Heath End, Farnham Moor Park, Farnham North West, Farnham Rowledge, Farnham Weyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Stafford (politician)
Gregory James Stafford is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Farnham and Bordon since 2024. He is a member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee and an Opposition Assistant Whip. Stafford served as councillor in the London Borough of Ealing from 2007 to 2024, and was both leader of the Conservatives group and Leader of the Opposition from 2014 until 2022. He was Chairman of Conservative Future in West London. His younger brother, Alexander Stafford, served as Conservative MP for Rother Valley from 2019 to 2024. Early life and education Born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, he attended St Benedict's School, a Catholic independent school, and later studied Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford. He has familial ties to his seat, with his father's family originally coming from Haslemere, a town in which his grandparents owned the former ''Stafford's Sweet Shop''. Stafford's mother's family im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Wight East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Isle of Wight East is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, since when it has been represented by Joe Robertson for the Conservative Party. The Isle of Wight is granted two Members of Parliament under the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011. The constituency has been created alongside Isle of Wight West from the divided former Isle of Wight constituency. Boundaries The constituency comprises eastern areas of the Isle of Wight, including the communities of Ryde, Bembridge, Brading, Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor. It is composed of the following electoral divisions of the Isle of Wight: * Bembridge, Binstead & Fishbourne, Brading & St Helens, Haylands & Swanmore, Lake North, Lake South, Nettlestone & Seaview, Newchurch, Havenstreet & Ashey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Left–right political spectrum, left-right political spectrum. Following its defeat by Labour at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election it is currently the second-largest party by the number of votes cast and number of seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons; as such it has the formal parliamentary role of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. It encompasses various ideological factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites and Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. There have been 20 Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Robertson (politician)
Joe Paul James Robertson is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight East constituency since 2024. Early life and education Joe Robertson grew up on the Isle of Wight and was educated at Ryde School, a private boarding and day school in Ryde. He read Geography at University College London between 2003–2006. Between 2008–2010 he studied at BPP University Law School, before being called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 2010. Political career Robertson was elected to Isle of Wight Council in 2021. He served as the Conservative group leader between 2021 and 2023. He was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate in June 2023 for the newly created Isle of Wight East constituency as part of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies The 2023 review of Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucester (UK Parliament Constituency)
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England, South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west; it is sited from Monmouth, from Bristol, and east of the England and Wales border, border with Wales. Gloucester has a population of around 132,000, including suburban areas. It is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal to the Severn Estuary. Gloucester was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans and became an important city and ''Colonia (Roman), colony'' in AD 97, under Nerva, Emperor Nerva as ''Glevum, Colonia Glevum Nervensis''. It was granted its first charter in 1155 by Henry II of England, Henry II. In 1216, Henry III of England, Henry III, aged only nine years, was crowned with a gilded iron ring in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral. Gloucester's significance in the Middle Ages is unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex McIntyre
Alexander Forbes McIntyre is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Gloucester since 2024. Early career In his early career, McIntyre was a solicitor and lawyer representing the NHS. Political career McIntyre stood for the Labour Party in the 2024 general election for Gloucester, and defeated incumbent Conservative MP Richard Graham, with McIntyre obtaining 16,472 votes, with a majority of 3,431 votes. Personal life McIntyre was born in Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the ..., and attended Ermysted's Grammar School, a selective state school. McIntyre is a season ticket holder at Gloucester City A.F.C. and at Gloucester Rugby. He previously lived in Cam before he moved to Gloucester after being elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Ives (UK Parliament Constituency)
St Ives is a parliamentary constituency covering the western end of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The constituency has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Andrew George, a Liberal Democrat; George previously represented the constituency from 1997 to 2015. Constituency profile The seat covers the southern end of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Tourism is a significant sector in this former mining area. History St Ives has elected MPs to every Parliament since 1558, except for a brief period during the Protectorate. It was originally a mere parliamentary borough that returned two MPs until the Great Reform Act 1832, when its representation was cut to a single member. In 1885 the borough was abolished, but the St Ives name was transferred to the surrounding county constituency. St Ives borough The borough established under Queen Mary consisted of the parish of St Ives in western Cornwall, a seaport and market town in which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
