Procedure Committee

The Procedure Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to consider the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of public business.^[1] The committee is governed by Standing Order number 147, which sets out its remit, powers, and the number of members.

Membership

58th parliament

In the 58th parliament, the membership of the committee is the following:^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

	Party	Constituency
Dame Karen Bradley (Chair)	Conservative	Staffordshire Moorlands
Jack Brereton	Conservative	Stoke-on-Trent South
Sir Christopher Chope	Conservative	Christchurch
Nickie Aiken	Conservative	Cities of London and Westminster
Samantha Dixon	Labour	City of Chester
Owen Thompson	Scottish National Party	Midlothian
Suzanne Webb	Conservative	Stourbridge
Patrick Grady	Scottish National Party	Glasgow North
Bambos Charalambous	Labour	Enfield Southgate
Chris Elmore	Labour	Ogmore
Kevan Jones	Labour	Durham North
Nigel Mills	Conservative	Amber Valley
William Wragg	Conservative	Hazel Grove
James Sunderland	Conservative	Bracknell
Liz Twist	Labour	Blaydon
Douglas Ross	Conservative	Moray
James Gray	Conservative	North Wiltshire

57th parliament

In the 57th parliament, the members of the committee was the following:^[6]

	Party	Constituency
Charles Walker MP (Chair)	Conservative	Broxbourne
Bob Blackman MP	Conservative	Harrow East
Peter Bone MP	Conservative	Wellingborough
Gareth Snell MP	Labour Co-op	Stoke-on-Trent Central
Bambos Charalambous MP	Labour	Enfield Southgate
Sir Christopher Chope MP	Conservative	Christchurch
Alison Thewliss MP	Scottish National Party	Glasgow Central
Nic Dakin MP	Labour	Scunthorpe
Chris Elmore MP	Labour	Ogmore
Helen Goodman MP	Labour	Bishop Auckland
Ranil Jayawardena MP	Conservative	North East Hampshire
David Linden MP	Scottish National Party	Glasgow East
Melanie Onn MP	Labour	Great Grimsby
Nick Smith MP	Labour	Blaenau Gwent
William Wragg MP	Conservative	Hazel Grove
Rt. Hon Sir David Evennett MP	Conservative	Bexleyheath and Crayford
Rt. Hon Sir Edward Leigh MP	Conservative	Gainsborough

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
9 June 2010		Greg Knight MP (Conservative – East Yorkshire) elected Chair						Hansard
26 July 2010	Initial members elected							Hansard
1 March 2011		Mike Wood MP (Labour)	East Yorkshire	→		Helen Goodman MP (Labour)	Bishop Auckland	Hansard
21 March 2011		Angela Smith MP (Labour)	Penistone and Stocksbridge	→		Thomas Docherty MP (Labour)	Dunfermline and West Fife	Hansard
1 April 2011		Sir Peter Soulsby MP (Labour)	Leicester South	→	Vacant			Vote and Proceedings
11 October 2011		Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour)	Houghton and Sunderland South	→		Nic Dakin MP (Labour)	Scunthorpe	Hansard
31 October 2011		Andrew Percy MP (Conservative)	Brigg and Goole	→		Karen Bradley MP (Conservative)	Staffordshire Moorlands	Hansard
6 September 2012		Chair: Greg Knight MP (Conservative)	East Yorkshire	→	Vacant			Hansard
17 October 2012	Vacant			→		Chair: Charles Walker MP (Conservative)	Broxbourne	Hansard
5 November 2012		Karen Bradley MP (Conservative)	Staffordshire Moorlands	→		Martin Vickers MP (Conservative)	Cleethorpes	Hansard

References

^ "Procedure Committee - role". House of Commons. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
^ "Procedure Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
^ "Committees Volume 737: debated on Tuesday 12 September 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 12 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023. That Owen Thompson be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Kirsty Blackman be added.
^ "Business without Debate Volume 742: debated on Tuesday 5 December 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023. That Dame Angela Eagle be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Samantha Dixon be added.— (Sir Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Committee of Selection).
^ "Business without Debate Volume 742: debated on Monday 11 December 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 17 December 2023. That Aaron Bell be discharged from the Procedure Committee and Nickie Aiken be added.
^ "Membership - Procedure Committee". parliament.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

External links

Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives
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