The Commons Select Committee of Privileges is a Committee appointed by the House of Commons to consider specific matters relating to privileges referred to it by the House.

It came into being on 7 January 2013 as one half of the replacements for the Committee on Standards and Privileges. The latter committee was divided into the Committee on Standards and Committee of Privileges in order that the Standards Committee might employ lay members.

Membership

As of November 2023, the members of the committee were as follows:[1][2]

Member Party Constituency
The Rt Hon Harriet Harman KC MP (Chair) Labour Camberwell and Peckham
Philip Dunne MP Conservative Ludlow
Alberto Costa MP Conservative South Leicestershire
Allan Dorans MP Scottish National Party Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Michael Ellis MP Conservative Northampton North
Yvonne Fovargue MP Labour Makerfield
Sir Bernard Jenkin MP Conservative Harwich and North Essex

References

  1. ↑ "Membership - Committee of Privileges". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Business without Debate Volume 742: debated on Monday 4 December 2023". hansard.parliament.uk/. UK Hansard. 4 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023. That Andy Carter and Sir Charles Walker be discharged from the Committee of Privileges and Philip Dunne and Sir Michael Ellis be added.—(Marcus Jones.)


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