Welsh Affairs Select Committee
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The Welsh Affairs Select Committee (or simply the 'Welsh Affairs 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 Wales Office, and relations with the Welsh Assembly.[1]
Membership 2005–2010
At the start of the 2005–2010 Parliament, the committee's membership was:[2]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
Dr. Hywel Francis MP (Chair) | Labour | Aberavon | |
Stephen Crabb MP | Conservative | Preseli Pembrokeshire | |
David Davies MP | Conservative | Monmouth | |
Nia Griffith MP | Labour | Llanelli | |
Sian James MP | Labour | Swansea East | |
David Jones MP | Conservatives | Clwyd West | |
Martyn Jones MP | Labour | Clwyd South | |
Madeleine Moon MP | Labour | Bridgend | |
Betty Williams MP | Labour | Conway | |
Mark Williams MP | Liberal Democrat | Ceredigion | |
Hywel Williams MP | Plaid Cymru | Caernarfon |
2005–2010 changes
Changes between 2005 and 2010 are not known.
Membership 2010–2015
At the dissolution of the 2010–2015 Parliament, the committee's membership was:[3]
2010–2015 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 and party |
Constituency | → | New member and party |
Constituency | Source | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 November 2010 | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | → | Stuart Andrew MP (Conservative) | Pudsey | Hansard | ||
22 November 2010 | Nia Griffith MP (Labour) | Llanelli | → | Siân James MP (Labour) | Swansea East | Hansard | ||
27 June 2011 | Alun Cairns MP (Conservative) | Vale of Glamorgan | → | Robin Walker MP (Conservative) | Worcester | Hansard | ||
28 November 2011 | Owen Smith MP (Labour) | Pontypridd | → | Nia Griffith MP (Labour) | Llanelli | Hansard | ||
5 November 2012 | Stuart Andrew MP (Conservative) | Pudsey | → | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | Hansard | ||
26 November 2012 | Susan Jones MP (Labour) | Clwyd South | → | Stephen Doughty MP (Labour) | Cardiff South and Penarth | Hansard | ||
3 December 2012 | Robin Walker MP (Conservative) | Worcester | → | Simon Hart MP (Conservative) | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Hansard |
Membership 2015–2017
At the start of the 2015–2017 Parliament Committee's only membership was:
During the 2015–2017 Parliament the following were members: Gerald Jones, Antoinette Sandbach, Christina Rees and Carolyn Harris were replaced by:
Glyn Davies, Chris Elmore, Paul Flynn and Stephen Kinnock.
Source: Welsh Affairs Committee
Current membership
The Committee's membership consists of:[4]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
David Davies MP (Chair) | Conservative | Monmouth | |
Tonia Antoniazzi MP* | Labour | Gower | |
Chris Davies MP | Conservative | Brecon and Radnorshire | |
Glyn Davies | Conservative | Montgomeryshire | |
Geraint Davies | Labour | Swansea West | |
Paul Flynn MP | Labour | Newport West | |
Simon Hoare MP* | Conservative | North Dorset | |
Ben Lake MP | Plaid Cymru | Ceredigion | |
Stephen Kinnock MP** | Labour | Aberavon | |
Anna McMorrin MP* | Labour | Cardiff North | |
Liz Saville Roberts MP** | Plaid Cymru | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | |
Following criticism of both an unfilled committee[5] and an all-male lineup,[6] additional MPs joined the committee in October 2017.
(*) Joined the committee on 18 October 2017.[7] (**) Joined the committee on 24 October 2017.[8]
As of October 2017, there are no MPs representing North Wales seats.
Thelma Walker replaced Stephen Kinnock on 8 January 2018.[9] Thelma Walker was then replaced by Susan Elan Jones on 1 February 2018,[10] following criticism of Labour allowing an MP for an English seat to sit on the committee.[11]
List of chairs
Member | From | Until | |
---|---|---|---|
Leo Abse | 25 January 1980 | 20 November 1981[12] | |
Donald Anderson | 20 November 1981 | 13 May 1983[13] | |
Gareth Wardell | 9 June 1983 | 21 March 1997[14] | |
Martyn Jones | 14 July 1997 | 13 July 2005[15] | |
Hywel Francis | 13 July 2005 | 6 May 2010 | |
David Davies | 10 June 2010 | Present [1] |
[Note 1] Office officially vacant from 30 March 2015 to 18 June 2015 and from 3 May 2017 to 7 July 2017.[16]
See also
References
- ↑ UK Parliament - Welsh Affairs Select Committee Home Page
- ↑ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmwelaf/433/433.pdf/
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/welsh-affairs-committee/news/welsh-affairs-committee-membership-at-the-end-of-parliament-2010-15/
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/welsh-affairs-committee/membership/
- ↑ https://nation.cymru/2017/apathetic-welsh-labour-mps-blasted-for-lack-of-interest-in-scrutiny-role/
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-41227347
- ↑ https://twitter.com/CommonsWelshAff/status/920246835071082496
- ↑ https://twitter.com/CommonsWelshAff/status/922719308765114369
- ↑ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmagenda/OP180108a.pdf
- ↑ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmagenda/OP180201.pdf
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-42623888
- ↑ https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmwelaf/1054/8072801.htm
- ↑ https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmwelaf/1054/8072801.htm
- ↑ https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmwelaf/1054/8072801.htm
- ↑ https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmwelaf/1054/8072801.htm
- ↑ https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/welsh-affairs-committee/chair-nominations-2017/