Panel of Chairs

The Panel of Chairs (formerly the Chairmen's Panel) are members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom responsible for chairing public bill committees and other General Committees, as well as debates in Westminster Hall, the parallel debating chamber. The three Deputy Speakers, who are automatically members, are responsible for chairing Committees of the Whole. Other members may act as temporary chairs of Committees of the Whole House. The Panel is not itself generally thought of as a committee, but it does have the power to meet to consider matters relating to procedure in the general committees and report its findings to the House of Commons.^[1]

Members

The panel consists of the three Deputy Speakers and no fewer than 10 MPs appointed by the Speaker, two of whom are appointed pursuant to section 1(3) of the Parliament Act 1911 by the Committee of Selection to be consulted by the Speaker before declaring a bill to be a money bill. As of December 2015, the members are as follows:

Lindsay Hoyle (Labour), Chairman of Ways and Means
Eleanor Laing (Conservative), First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
Natascha Engel (Labour), Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
David Amess (Conservative)
Adrian Bailey (Labour)
Clive Betts (Labour)
Peter Bone (Conservative)
Graham Brady (Conservative)
Karen Buck (Labour)
Christopher Chope (Conservative)
David Crausby (Labour)
Geraint Davies (Labour)
Philip Davies (Conservative)
Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
Nigel Evans (Conservative)
Roger Gale (Conservative)
Mike Gapes (Labour)
Cheryl Gillan (Conservative)
James Gray (Conservative)
Fabian Hamilton (Labour)
David Hanson (Labour)
Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
George Howarth (Labour)
Edward Leigh (Conservative)
Anne Main (Conservative)
Steve McCabe (Labour))
Alan Meale (Labour))
Madeleine Moon (Labour))
David Nuttall (Conservative)
Albert Owen (Labour)
Andrew Percy (Conservative)
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
Gary Streeter (Conservative)
Graham Stringer (Labour)
Andrew Turner (Conservative)
Valerie Vaz (Labour)
Charles Walker (Conservative)
Phil Wilson (Labour)

References

↑ Public Business Standing Order 85(4).

Current Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom

Commons

Departmental	Business, Innovation and Skills Communities and Local Government Culture, Media and Sport Defence Education Energy and Climate Change Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Foreign Affairs Health Home Affairs International Development Justice Northern Ireland Affairs Political and Constitutional Reform Science and Technology Scottish Affairs Transport Treasury Welsh Affairs Work and Pensions

Topical	Arms Export Controls Environmental Audit European Scrutiny Public Accounts Public Administration Regulatory Reform Statutory Instruments Women and Equalities

General	Panel of Chairs Public bill committee Delegated Legislation Committee European Committees Northern Ireland Grand Committee Regional Affairs Committee Scottish Grand Committee Welsh Grand Committee English Grand Committee

Internal	Administration Finance and Services Backbench Business Liaison Members' Expenses Procedure Selection Standards and Privileges Works of Art

Lords

Topical	Communications Constitution Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Economic Affairs European Union Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Science and Technology

Private business	Hybrid Instruments Standing Orders Internal: House Liaison Committee Privileges and Conduct Procedure Selection

Domestic	Administration and Works Information Refreshment Works of Art

Joint

Select	Consolidation, &c., Bills Joint Committee on Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee on Draft Protection of Charities Bill Human Rights National Security Strategy Joint Committee on Palace of Westminster Statutory Instruments

Statutory

Commons	House of Commons Commission Administration Estimate Audit Members Estimate Members Estimate Audit Public Accounts Commission Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Joint	Ecclesiastical Committee Intelligence and Security

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