The Environmental Audit Select Committee is a
select committee of the
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
. The remit of the committee is to examine how government departments' policies and programmes will affect both the environment and
sustainable development.
Current membership
As of 6 October 2022, these are the members of the Environmental Audit Select Committee:
Membership 2017–2019
In the
57th parliament the following MPs sat on the 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.
See also
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List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament
The parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom are committees of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Each consists of a small number of Members of Parliament from the House of Commons, or peers from the House of Lords, or a mix of both, ap ...
References
External links
Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary ArchivesEnvironmental Audit Select Committee home page
Select Committees of the British House of Commons
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