European_Scrutiny_Committee
The European Scrutiny Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Following Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in January 2020 and the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020, the Committee continues to "monitor the legal and/or political importance of new EU legislation and policy and assess their potential implications for the UK. It may also scrutinise the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement, the Protocol on Northern Ireland and the UK/EU Trade & Cooperation Agreement."[1]
The current membership is as follows:[2]
Changes 2019-present
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 from 2019 onwards are shown below.
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2020 | New seat | → | Margaret Ferrier MP (SNP) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Parliament | |||
| 2 November 2021 | Charlotte Nichols MP (Labour) | Warrington North | → | Dame Margaret Hodge MP (Labour) | Barking | Parliament | ||
| 27 June 2022 | David Lammy MP (Labour) | Tottenham | → | Geraint Davies MP (Labour and Co-op) | Swansea West | Parliament | ||
| 4 July 2022 | Andrea Jenkyns MP (Conservative) | Morley and Outwood | → | John Baron MP (Conservative) | Basildon and Billericay | Parliament | ||
| Marco Longhi MP (Conservative) | Dudley North | Adam Holloway MP (Conservative) | Gravesham | |||||
| Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative) | Newton Abbot | Gavin Robinson MP (DUP) | Belfast East | |||||
Members of the committee were announced on 30 October 2017.[3]
Changes 2017-2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 November 2017 | Vacant | → | Geraint Davies MP (Labour) | Swansea West | Parliament | |||
| 9 July 2018 | Douglas Chapman MP (Scottish National) | Dunfermline and West Fife | → | Martyn Day MP (Scottish National) | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | Parliament | ||
| 21 October 2019 | Kate Green MP (Labour) | Stretford and Urmston | → | Vacant | Parliament | |||
Members of the committee were announced on 15 July 2015.[4]
Changes 2015-2017
Members of the committee were announced on 26 July 2010.[5]
Changes 2010-2015
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 November 2011 | Tony Lloyd MP (Labour) | Manchester Central | → | Sandra Osborne MP (Labour) | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | Hansard | ||
| 4 March 2013 | Sandra Osborne MP (Labour) | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | → | Linda Riordan MP (Labour/Co-op) | Halifax | Hansard | ||
| 17 June 2013 | Jim Dobbin KSG KMCO MP (Labour/Co-op) | Heywood and Middleton | → | Joe Benton MP (Labour) | Bootle | Parliament | ||
| 5 July 2013 | Joe Benton MP (Labour) | Bootle | → | Geraint Davies MP (Labour/Co-op) | Swansea West | Parliament | ||
| 15 July 2013 | Penny Mordaunt MP (Conservative) | Portsmouth North | → | Andrew Bingham MP (Conservative) | High Peak | Hansard | ||
| 25 November 2013 | Tim Farron MP (Liberal Democrats) | Westmorland and Lonsdale | → | Stephen Gilbert MP (Liberal Democrats) | St Austell and Newquay | Parliament | ||
| Ian Swales MP (Liberal Democrats) | Redcar | Mike Thornton MP (Liberal Democrats) | Eastleigh | |||||
- "European Scrutiny Committee". parliament.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- "European Scrutiny Committee - Membership". parliament.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- "Business without Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 630. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 30 October 2017.
- "Business without Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 598. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 15 July 2015.
- "European Scrutiny". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 514. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 26 July 2010.