Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
# Energy and Climate Change Select Committee

The Energy and Climate Change Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence on 1 January 2009.

## Formation

The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on October 28, 2008, 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:

| Member | Party | Constituency |
| - | - | - |
| Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) | Scottish National Party | Na h-Eileanan an Iar |
| Alistair Carmichael MP | Liberal Democrat | Orkney and Shetland |
| Glyn Davies MP | Conservative | Montgomeryshire |
| James Heappey MP | Conservative | Wells |
| Ian Lavery MP | Labour | Wansbeck |
| Melanie Onn MP | Labour | Great Grimsby |
| Matthew Pennycook MP | Labour | Greenwich and Woolwich |
| Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk & North Ipswich |
| Antoinette Sandbach MP | Conservative | Eddisbury |
| Julian Sturdy MP | Conservative | York Outer |
| Dr Alan Whitehead MP | Labour | Southampton Test |

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 |
| 2 November 2010 | Tom Greatrex MP (Labour Co-op) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | → | Ian Lavery MP (Labour) | Wansbeck | Hansard |
| 5 November 2012 | Laura Sandys MP (Conservative) | South Thanet | → | Peter Lilley MP (Conservative) | Hitchin and Harpenden | Hansard |
