The Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence in April 2023. It is the successor to the previous Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, which existed from 2009 to 2016.
The House of Commons agreed to the establishment of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee on 28 October 2008,[1] following the establishment of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 3 October 2008. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the department, and any departmental bodies.
As the department was disbanded and merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to form the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016, the committee was also abolished. The committee was revitalised with the formation of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.[2] Candidates for chair were Kirsty Blackman, Stewart Malcolm McDonald and Angus MacNeil.[3]
Following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, chairs and member of committees are yet to be appointed.
Angus MacNeil was elected chair on 26 April 2023.[4] [5] The other members of the committee were formally appointed on 12 June 2023.[6]
As of June 2023, the membership of the committee was as follows:[7]
| Member | Party | Constituency | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) | Independent (elected as SNP) | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | ||
| Hilary Benn MP | Labour | Leeds Central | ||
| Vicky Ford MP | Conservative | Chelmsford | ||
| Barry Gardiner MP | Labour | Brent North | ||
| Mark Garnier MP | Conservative | Wyre Forest | ||
| Mark Hendrick MP | Labour | Preston | ||
| Mark Jenkinson MP | Conservative | Workington | ||
| Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | ||
| Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP | Labour | Brighton Kemptown | ||
| Alexander Stafford MP | Conservative | Rother Valley | ||
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2023 | New seat | → | Mark Pawsey MP (Conservative) | Rugby | Hansard | ||||
| 20 November 2023 | Hilary Benn MP (Labour) | Leeds Central | → | Mick Whitley MP (Labour) | Birkenhead | Hansard | |||
| 11 December 2023 | Mark Jenkinson MP (Conservative) | Workington | → | Derek Thomas MP (Conservative) | St Ives | Hansard | |||
| 7 May 2024 | Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | → | Thérèse Coffey MP (Conservative) | Suffolk Coastal | Hansard | |||
The membership of the committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows:
| Member | Party | Constituency | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) | Scottish National Party | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | ||
| Alistair Carmichael MP | Liberal Democrat | Orkney and Shetland | ||
| Glyn Davies MP | Conservative | Montgomeryshire | ||
| James Heappey MP | Conservative | Wells | ||
| Ian Lavery MP | Labour | Wansbeck | ||
| Melanie Onn MP | Labour | Great Grimsby | ||
| Matthew Pennycook MP | Labour | Greenwich and Woolwich | ||
| Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk & North Ipswich | ||
| Antoinette Sandbach MP | Conservative | Eddisbury | ||
| Julian Sturdy MP | Conservative | York Outer | ||
| Dr Alan Whitehead MP | Labour | Southampton Test | ||
Source: Energy and Climate Change Committee
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.
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2010 | Gemma Doyle MP (Labour Co-op) | West Dunbartonshire | → | Barry Gardiner MP (Labour) | Brent North | Hansard | |||
| Tom Greatrex MP (Labour Co-op) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Ian Lavery MP (Labour) | Wansbeck | ||||||
| 5 November 2012 | Laura Sandys MP (Conservative) | South Thanet | → | Peter Lilley MP (Conservative) | Hitchin and Harpenden | Hansard | |||