The Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (SCEC), or simply the Speaker's Committee, is a body created under the
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets out how political parties, elections and referendums are to be regulated in the United Kingdom. It formed an important par ...
to scrutinise the
Electoral Commission
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a c ...
.
[Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (c. 41)](_blank)
Schedule 1 ss 14–19 Through the committee's members, the commission is able to field questions in the House of Commons in a manner similar to the way ministers do.
Composition
The committee comprises nine MPs: the
speaker of the House of Commons Speaker of the House of Commons is a political leadership position found in countries that have a House of Commons, where the membership of the body elects a speaker to lead its proceedings.
Systems that have such a position include:
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(who also serves as its chair), the
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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, the chair of the select committee responsible for electoral issues,
[Section 2(2)(a) of the Political Parties, Elections, and Referendums Act specifically calls for this to be the chair of the ]Home Affairs Select Committee
The Home Affairs Select Committee is a departmental select committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Remit
The Home Affairs Committee is one of the House of Commons Select ...
, but 2(6)(b) states that if responsibility for electoral issues transfers to another committee, that committees chair should serve instead. As of 22 February 2023, the members of the committee are as follows:
See also
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Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
References
External links
The records of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission are held by the Parliamentary Archives
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Committees of the British House of Commons