Select committee chairmen in full
David Blackburn 3:43pm
Courtesy of PoliticsHome, here is the full list of the new chairmen of select
committees:
'The following candidates have been elected unopposed as select committee chairs:
- Culture, Media and Sport: Mr John Whittingdale
- International Development: Malcolm Bruce
- Justice: Sir Alan Beith
- Northern Ireland: Mr Laurence Robertson
- Procedure: Mr Greg Knight
- Scottish Affairs: Mr Ian Davidson
- Transport: Mrs Louise Ellman
- Welsh Affairs: David T. C. Davies
The following candidates have been elected as select committee chairs by secret ballot, under the Alternative Vote system:
- Business, Innovation and Skills: Mr Adrian Bailey
- Children, Schools and Families (Education): Mr Graham Stuart
- Communities and Local Government: Mr Clive Betts
- Defence: Mr James Arbuthnot
- Energy and Climate Change: Mr Tim Yeo
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Miss Anne McIntosh
- Environmental Audit: Joan Walley
- Foreign Affairs: Richard Ottaway
- Health: Mr Stephen Dorrell
- Home Affairs: Keith Vaz
- Political and Constitutional Reform: Mr Graham Allen
- Public Accounts: Margaret Hodge
- Public Administration: Mr Bernard Jenkin
- Science and Technology: Andrew Miller
- Treasury: Mr Andrew Tyrie
- Work and Pensions: Miss Anne Begg'
Certainly, there will be reservations over Vaz and Hodge; but, from what I hear, both are adept and will hold the government to account. My only regret is that Douglas Carswell didn't take the defence committee - in fact he was hammered, withdrawing after the first round. Defence procurement requires urgent reform, and Carswell would have held a blow-torch to the soft and cosy relationship between ministers, officials and contractors.
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charles hercock
June 10th, 2010 3:46pm Report this commentJustice for the Liberals at last
Noa
June 10th, 2010 4:18pm Report this comment"..the soft and cosy relationship between ministers, officials and contractors...".
Heck, David. You obviously don't have direct experience of Defence procurement!
I can assure you that my extensive experience of the relationship between officials and contractors is invariably business-like and deeply competitive.
Liz Brown
June 10th, 2010 4:25pm Report this commentMargaret Hodge ran islington Council into the ground, so definitely has experience of wasting public money. It is akin to putting the fox into the hen house and the lying, smarmy and devious Vaz stays at the Home Office. Have those MPs who elected these people no shame?
Then we have the new Deputy Speaker the unspeakable Dawn Primarolo - didn't she lie in the House when at the Treasury? She is totally incompetent to boot
Jon
June 10th, 2010 4:28pm Report this commentExactly. That's why Carswell didn't get it.
Mycroft
June 10th, 2010 4:44pm Report this commentGood to see that Andrew Tyrie has made it; a thoughtful and serious man, we need more like him.
old fogey
June 10th, 2010 5:08pm Report this commentThe election of Keith Vaz as Home Committee Chair brings MP's and the House of Commons into disrepute. It is a selection that makes me think the less of MP's as a body. It is not just that he is a self serving oleaginous creep ( pedants calm down; I realise that is tautologous)but that ,and I hope I wont be 'moded' on this, on occasion the boundary between corrupt behaviour and self interest may have been smudged.
TomTom
June 10th, 2010 5:27pm Report this commentWith these Committe Chairmen and the re-election of Bercow it seems nothing has changed. This Parliament is going to be as big a disaster as its predecessor. Looks like this political system is running into the buffers
TGF UKIP
June 10th, 2010 5:55pm Report this commentBad news in particular re scamster Yeo and headbanger Walley. I really had hoped that the Tory "deniers" might have got together with Labour to elect a Chairman to cause the maximum possible grief to Disaster Dave on "climate change."
As for Primarolo, it might defy belief if we didn't already know what an instinctively bunch of lying rascals they all are. Obviously, most comfortable with one of their own in the Chair.
David Lindsay
June 10th, 2010 11:51pm Report this commentBy far the best news from yesterday's Select Committee elections was that Scottish Affairs will be chaired by Ian Davidson, Co-operative stalwart, no friend of the EU, and not only one of the numerous Labour MPs from Scotland (and Wales) who will have voted No to devolution in the privacy of a polling booth, but one of the few who has gone on to take seriously the continuing role of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in exercising overall responsibility, as critically as necessary, for the affairs of devolved bodies.
Blessed with the gift for a sharp turn of phrase, expect to hear a lot more from Davidson, not only while the present do-nothing Executive limps to its conclusion, but also once the Tories and the Lib Dems have between them taken more votes than the SNP (as happened last month) and the overall majority at Holyrood is made up of the his own party's failed Westminster and Strasbourg hopefuls, semi-retired Westminster and Strasbourg wallpaper, incompetent office staff, and councillors whose Council Leaders wanted rid of them.
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