Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee
The Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence in April 2023. It is the successor to the previous Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, which existed from 2009 to 2016.
Formation
The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on 28 October 2008,[1] following the establishment of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 3 October 2008. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the department, and any departmental bodies.
Membership
The membership of the committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows:
Source: Energy and Climate Change Committee
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 | Gemma Doyle MP (Labour Co-op) | West Dunbartonshire | → | Barry Gardiner MP (Labour) | Brent North | Hansard | ||
| Tom Greatrex MP (Labour Co-op) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Ian Lavery MP (Labour) | Wansbeck | |||||
| 5 November 2012 | Laura Sandys MP (Conservative) | South Thanet | → | Peter Lilley MP (Conservative) | Hitchin and Harpenden | Hansard | ||