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The '''Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee''', formerly the '''Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/role/|title=CRole - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee|work=UK Parliament|access-date=18 September 2017}}</ref>, is one of the [[Parliamentary select committees of the United Kingdom|select committee]]s of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]], established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]] which replaced the Department for National Heritage.
The '''Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee''', formerly the '''Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/role/|title=CRole - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee|work=UK Parliament|access-date=18 September 2017}}</ref> is one of the [[Parliamentary select committees of the United Kingdom|select committee]]s of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]], established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]] which replaced the Department for National Heritage.


==Membership==
==Membership==

Revision as of 05:25, 9 May 2023

The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, formerly the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee,[1] is one of the select committees of the British House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for National Heritage.

Membership

As of 29 April 2022, the membership of the committee is as follows:[2]

Member Party Constituency
Rt Hon Damian Green MP (Acting Chair)[3][a] Conservative Ashford
Kevin Brennan MP Labour Cardiff West
Steve Brine MP Conservative Winchester
Clive Efford MP Labour Eltham
Julie Elliott MP Labour Sunderland Central
Dr Rupa Huq MP Labour Ealing Central and Acton
Simon Jupp MP Conservative East Devon
John Nicolson MP Scottish National Party Ochil and South Perthshire
Jane Stevenson MP Conservative Wolverhampton North East
Giles Watling MP Conservative Clacton
  1. ^ The previous chair, Julian Knight, resigned in April 2023, with Green subsequently becoming acting chair.

Changes since 2019

Date Outgoing Member
& Party 		Constituency → New Member
& Party 		Constituency Source
11 May 2020 Jo Stevens MP (Labour) Cardiff Central → Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) Pontypridd Hansard
9 November 2020 Philip Davies MP (Conservative) Shipley → Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) South Derbyshire Hansard
19 October 2021 Damian Hinds MP (Conservative) East Hampshire → Simon Jupp MP (Conservative) East Devon Hansard
Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) South Derbyshire Jane Stevenson MP (Conservative) Wolverhampton North East
7 March 2022 Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) Pontypridd → Dr Rupa Huq MP (Labour) Ealing Central and Acton Hansard

2017-2019 Parliament

The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.[4][5]

Member Party Constituency
Damian Collins MP (Chair) Conservative Folkestone and Hythe
Julie Elliott MP Labour Sunderland Central
Paul Farrelly MP Labour Newcastle-under-Lyme
Simon Hart MP Conservative Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
Julian Knight MP Conservative Solihull
Ian Lucas MP Labour Wrexham
Christian Matheson MP Labour City of Chester
Brendan O'Hara MP Scottish National Party Argyll and Bute
Rebecca Pow MP Conservative Taunton Deane
Jo Stevens MP Labour Cardiff Central
Giles Watling MP Conservative Clacton

Changes 2017-2019

Date Outgoing Member
& Party 		Constituency → New Member
& Party 		Constituency Source
11 May 2020 Christian Matheson MP (Labour) City of Chester → Clive Efford MP (Labour) Eltham Hansard
15 July 2019 Rebecca Pow MP (Conservative) Taunton Deane → Philip Davies MP (Conservative) Shipley Hansard

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 up to January 2013 are shown below.

Date Outgoing Member
& Party 		Constituency → New Member
& Party 		Constituency Source
9 May 2011 David Cairns MP (Labour) Inverclyde → Vacant Hansard
19 July 2011 Vacant → Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op) Kilmarnock and Loudoun Hansard
24 October 2011 Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op) Kilmarnock and Loudoun → Steve Rotheram MP (Labour) Liverpool Walton Hansard
10 November 2011 Alan Keen MP (Labour Co-op) Feltham and Heston → Vacant Hansard
12 December 2011 Vacant → Gerry Sutcliffe MP (Labour) Bradford South Hansard
29 August 2012 Louise Mensch MP (Conservative) Corby → Vacant Votes and
Proceedings
17 September 2012 Tom Watson MP (Labour) West Bromwich East → Ben Bradshaw MP (Labour) Exeter Hansard
29 October 2012 Therese Coffey MP (Conservative) Suffolk Coastal → Angie Bray MP (Conservative) Ealing Central and Acton Hansard
Damian Collins MP (Conservative) Folkestone and Hythe Conor Burns MP (Conservative) Bournemouth West
Vacant Tracey Crouch MP (Conservative) Chatham and Aylesford
21 January 2013 Adrian Sanders MP (Liberal Democrat) Torbay → John Leech (politician) MP (Liberal Democrat) Manchester Withington Hansard

Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

Chair Party Constituency First elected Method
Julian Knight Conservative Solihull 29 January 2020 Elected by the House of Commons[6]
Damian Collins Conservative Folkestone and Hythe 12 July 2017 Elected by the House of Commons[7]
Previously as Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
Damian Collins Conservative Folkestone and Hythe 19 October 2016 Elected by the House of Commons[8]
Jesse Norman Conservative Hereford and South Herefordshire 17 June 2015 Elected by the House of Commons[9]
John Whittingdale Conservative Maldon
(Maldon and East Chelmsford 1997–2010) 		11 July 2005 Elected by the Select Committee[10]
(and the House of Commons in 2010)
Gerald Kaufman Labour Manchester Gorton 14 July 1997 Elected by the Select Committee[11]
Previously as National Heritage Select Committee
Gerald Kaufman Labour Manchester Gorton 27 April 1992 Elected by the Select Committee

Election results

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes.[12] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.[13]

29 January 2020[14]
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Julian Knight 283 50.8
Damian Collins 274 49.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes 557
12 July 2017[15]
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Damian Collins Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes
19 October 2016[8]
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Damian Collins 302 56.8
Helen Grant 230 43.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes 532
17 June 2015[9]
Candidate 1st round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Jesse Norman 221 36.8 240 40.6 268 47.2 319 60.2
Graham Stuart 157 26.2 164 27.7 178 31.3 211 39.8
Damian Green 93 15.5 97 16.4 122 21.5 Eliminated
Damian Collins 87 14.5 90 15.2 Eliminated
Jason McCartney 42 7.0 Eliminated
Not redistributed 9 1.5 32 5.3 70 11.7
Valid votes 600 591 568 530
9 June 2010[16]
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
John Whittingdale Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes

See also

References

  1. ^ "CRole - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Damian Green MP chosen as acting Chair of DCMS Committee". Parliament.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 627. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 12 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Business without Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 628. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 11 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs - Wednesday 29 January 2020 - Hansard - UK Parliament". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  7. ^ "ELECTION FOR CHAIRS OF SELECT COMMITTEES: RESULT" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 12 July 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Damian Collins elected Chair of Culture, Media and Sport Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament". Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  10. ^ "John Whittingdale MP, Maldon". TheyWorkForYou.
  11. ^ "House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - First Special Report". publications.parliament.uk.
  12. ^ "Standing Orders of the House of Commons". publications.parliament.uk.
  13. ^ Gorb, Aleksandra; Priddy, Sarah (20 February 2021). "Chairs of Commons select committees in the 2019 Parliament" – via commonslibrary.parliament.uk. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  16. ^ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
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