Health Select Committee
The Health Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the British House of Commons. It oversees the operations of the Department of Health and its associated bodies.
Membership
Current
Sarah Wollaston was reelected as Chair in July 2017, with other members elected on 7 September 2017 as follows:[1]
Up to 2017 general election
Changes were made on 26th Oct 2015 - Rachael Maskell, Liz McInnes and Emily Thornberry discharged - Ben Bradshaw, Julie Cooper and Emma Reynolds added.[2][3] Membership was as follows.
At the start of the 2015-2016 session of parliament
Dr Sarah Wollaston was elected as current Chair of the Health Committee on Thursday 18 June 2015. The remaining members of the Committee were elected by the House on Wednesday 8 July 2015.[4]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Chair) | Conservative | Totnes | |
| Dr James Davies MP | Conservative | Vale of Clwyd | |
| Andrea Jenkyns MP | Conservative | Morley and Outwood | |
| Liz McInnes MP | Labour | Heywood and Middleton | |
| Rachael Maskell MP | Labour (Co-op) | York Central | |
| Andrew Percy MP | Conservative | Brigg and Goole | |
| Paula Sherriff MP | Labour | Dewsbury | |
| Emily Thornberry MP | Labour | Islington South and Finsbury | |
| Maggie Throup MP | Conservative | Erewash | |
| Helen Whately MP | Conservative | Faversham and Mid Kent | |
| Dr Philippa Whitford MP | Scottish National Party | Central Ayrshire | |
In the 2014-2015 session of parliament
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Chair) | Conservative | Totnes | |
| Rosie Cooper MP | Labour | West Lancashire | |
| Andrew George MP | Liberal Democrat | St Ives | |
| Robert Jenrick MP | Conservative | Newark | |
| Barbara Keeley MP | Labour | Worsley and Eccles South | |
| Charlotte Leslie MP | Conservative | Bristol North West | |
| Grahame Morris MP | Labour | Easington | |
| Andrew Percy MP | Conservative | Brigg and Goole | |
| Virendra Sharma MP | Labour | Ealing Southall | |
| David Tredinnick MP | Conservative | Bosworth | |
| Valerie Vaz MP | Labour | Walsall South | |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2010 | Fiona Mactaggart MP (Labour) | Slough | → | Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour) | Makerfield | Hansard | ||
| 27 June 2011 | Nadine Dorries MP (Conservative) | Mid Bedfordshire | → | Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Hansard | ||
| 24 October 2011 | Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour) | Makerfield | → | Barbara Keeley MP (Labour) | Worsley and Eccles South | Hansard | ||
| 29 October 2012 | Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | → | Andrew Percy MP (Conservative) | Brigg and Goole | Hansard | ||
| 17 June 2013 | Chris Skidmore MP (Conservative) | Kingswood | → | Charlotte Leslie MP (Conservative) | Bristol North West | |||
| June 2014 | Stephen Dorrell MP (Conservative) | Charnwood | → | Robert Jenrick MP (Conservative) | Newark | |||