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The Business and Trade 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 Business and Trade, and any departmental bodies.
The committee came into existence as the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on 1 October 2009, replacing the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, which was dissolved on 30 September 2009. The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on 25 June 2009,[1] following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's replacement of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 5 June 2009. Following the merger of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2016, the name of the committee was changed to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee in October 2016 to reflect the name of the new department.[2]
Membership
The committee's chair until the 2017 general election was Iain Wright, elected on 18 June 2015. The other members of the committee were formally appointed on 8 July 2015.[2] On 12 July 2017, Rachel Reeves was elected chair of the committee until her elevation to the Shadow Cabinet, when Darren Jones was elected her successor.[3] Following the promotion of Jones to the Shadow Cabinet, Liam Byrne was elected chair.
As of October 2023, the membership is as follows:[4][5][6][7][8]
Changes since 2019
2017-2019
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.[9][10]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
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Rachel Reeves MP (Chair) | Labour | Leeds West | |
Drew Hendry MP | SNP | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | |
Stephen Kerr MP | Conservative | Stirling | |
Peter Kyle MP | Labour | Hove | |
Ian Liddell-Grainger MP | Conservative | Bridgwater and West Somerset | |
Rachel Maclean MP | Conservative | Redditch | |
Albert Owen MP | Labour | Ynys Môn | |
Mark Pawsey MP | Conservative | Rugby | |
Antoinette Sandbach MP | Conservative | Eddisbury | |
Anna Turley MP | Labour and Co-op | Redcar |
Changes 2017-2019
Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
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16 October 2017 | New seat | → | Vernon Coaker MP (Labour) | Gedling | Hansard | |||
18 June 2018 | Rachel Maclean MP (Conservative) | Redditch | → | Patrick McLoughlin MP (Conservative) | Derbyshire Dales | Hansard |
Previous changes
Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of the select committee, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.