The Ecclesiastical Committee is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Committee of the General Synod.
It comprises 30 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Lord Speaker appoints 15 members from the House of Lords, and the Speaker of the House of Commons appoints 15 MPs to serve on the committee.[1] Members are appointed to serve for the duration of a parliament.
The current membership of the committee is as follows:[2]
| House of Commons | House of Lords | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP | Party | Constituency | Peer | Party | |||
| Fleur Anderson | Labour | Putney | Baroness Butler-Sloss | Crossbench | |||
| Sir Peter Bottomley | Conservative | Worthing West | Earl of Cork and Orrery | Crossbench | |||
| Sir Ben Bradshaw | Labour | Exeter | Lord Dannatt | Crossbench | |||
| Fiona Bruce | Conservative | Congleton | Baroness Eaton | Conservative | |||
| Lisa Cameron | Conservative | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | Lord Faulkner of Worcester | Labour | |||
| Miriam Cates | Conservative | Lord Field of Birkenhead | Crossbench | ||||
| Sir Roger Gale | Conservative | North Thanet | Lord Glenarthur | Conservative | |||
| David Lammy | Labour | Tottenham | Baroness Harris of Richmond | ||||
| Rachael Maskell | Labour Co-op | York Central | Lord Jones | Labour | |||
| Gary Sambrook | Conservative | Birmingham Northfield | Lord Lisvane | Crossbench | |||
| Andrew Selous | Conservative | South West Bedfordshire | Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | Labour | |||
| Jim Shannon | Strangford | Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | Labour | ||||
| Conservative | New Forest West | Labour | |||||
| Stephen Timms | Labour | East Ham | Lord Taylor of Holbeach | Conservative | |||
| Martin Vickers | Conservative | Cleethorpes | |||||