WPC will get new chair next month
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A ballot for select committee chairs has been scheduled for 11 September, with nominations running until 9 September. The Work and Pensions Committee will have a Labour MP as chair.
The Work and Pensions Committee is expected to get a new chair, as Sir Stephen Timms is once more a government minister. The ministerial code says ministers should give up any chair posts and membership of select committees.
The Work and Pensions Committee will again have a Labour party MP chairing it. Of 26 committee chairs being elected, the ruling party will now have 18, the Conservatives just five and the Liberal Democrats, with 72 MPs as of 4 July, three.
The full list of the allocation is below:
- Business and Trade (Labour)
- Culture, Media and Sport (Conservative)
- Defence (Labour)
- Education (Labour)
- Energy Security and Net Zero (Labour)
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Liberal Democrat)
- Foreign Affairs (Labour)
- Health and Social Care (Liberal Democrat)
- Home Affairs (Conservative)
- Housing, Communities and Local Government (Labour)
- International Development (Labour)
- Justice (Labour)
- Northern Ireland Affairs (Labour)
- Science, Innovation and Technology (Labour)
- Scottish Affairs (Labour)
- Transport (Labour)
- Treasury (Labour)
- Welsh Affairs (Labour)
- Women and Equalities (Labour)
- Work and Pensions (Labour)
Other specified select committees:
- Environmental Audit (Labour)
- Petitions (Liberal Democrat)
- Procedure (Labour)
- Public Accounts (Conservative)
- Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (Conservative)
- Standards (Conservative)
