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Business and Trade Select Committee

{{Short description|UK House of Commons select committee}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

The Business and Trade Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Business and Trade, and any departmental bodies.

The committee came into existence as the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on 1 October 2009, replacing the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, which was dissolved on 30 September 2009. The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on 25 June 2009,[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090625/debtext/90625-0011.htm#09062552000004 Hansard – 25 June 2009: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes)] following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's replacement of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 5 June 2009. Following the merger of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2016, the name of the committee was changed to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee in October 2016 to reflect the name of the new department.{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/membership/|title=Membership – Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee|website=UK Parliament|language=en|access-date=8 July 2017}}

Membership

Members are as follows:{{Cite web |url=https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/365/business-and-trade-committee/membership/ |title=Business and Trade Committee Membership |author= |date=31 October 2024 |website=committees.parliament.uk |publisher=Business and Trade Committee |access-date=31 October 2024 |quote=}}

class="wikitable"

! width="160px" colspan="2" | Member

! width="160px" | Party

! width="300px" | Constituency

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Liam Byrne MP (chair)

| Labour

| Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Antonia Bance MP

| Labour

| Tipton and Wednesbury

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| John Cooper MP

| Conservative

| Dumfries and Galloway

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Sarah Edwards MP

| Labour

| Tamworth

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Alison Griffiths MP

| Conservative

| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Sonia Kumar MP

| Labour

| Dudley

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |

| Charlie Maynard MP

| Lib Dems

| Witney

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Gregor Poynton MP

| Labour

| Livingston

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |

| Joshua Reynolds MP

|Lib Dems

|Maidenhead

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Matt Western MP

| Labour

| Warwick and Leamington

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Rosie Wrighting MP

| Labour

| Kettering

2019–2024 Parliament

The chair was elected on 27 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |title=Speaker’s Statement: Select Committee Chairs |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-27/debates/61727BCA-DE80-46AF-9F48-22F43F7297C6/Speaker%E2%80%99SStatementSelectCommitteeChairs |house=House of Commons |date=27 January 2020 |volume= 670 }}{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |title=Committees |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-02/debates/8B6DDBB3-CECD-4960-99B3-C2DF8913083F/Committees |house=House of Commons |date=2 March 2020 |volume= 672 }}

class="wikitable"

! width="160px" colspan="2" | Member

! width="160px" | Party

! width="300px" | Constituency

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Rachel Reeves MP (chair)

|Labour

|Leeds West

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |

|Alan Brown MP

|SNP

|Kilmarnock and Loudoun

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Richard Fuller MP

|Conservative

|North East Bedfordshire

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Nus Ghani MP

|Conservative

|Wealden

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|John Howell MP

|Conservative

|Henley

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Mark Jenkinson MP

|Conservative

|Workington

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Peter Kyle MP

|Labour

|Hove

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Pat McFadden MP

|Labour

|Wolverhampton South East

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Anna McMorrin MP

|Labour

|Cardiff North

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Mark Pawsey MP

|Conservative

|Rugby

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}"|

|Alexander Stafford MP

|Conservative

|Rother Valley

=Changes 2019–2024=

class="wikitable"

! valign="top" | Date

! colspan="2" valign="top" | Outgoing Member
& Party

! valign="top" | Constituency

! →

! colspan="2" valign="top" | New Member
& Party

! valign="top" | Constituency

! valign="top" | Source

6 May 2020

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| John Howell MP (Conservative)

| Henley

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Paul Howell MP (Conservative)

| Sedgefield

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-03-09/debates/E9AE2CC0-E9D3-4EBA-9689-20EE7684ABB9/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

7 April 2020

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Rachel Reeves MP (chair, Labour)

| Leeds West

| →

| colspan=3 |Vacant

|

6 May 2020

| colspan=3 |Vacant

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Darren Jones MP (chair, Labour)

| Bristol North West

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-05-06/debates/B298C106-72D1-453F-9211-029ADBB48F76/DeputySpeaker%E2%80%99SStatement Hansard]

rowspan=3 |11 May 2020

|rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Peter Kyle MP (Labour)

| Hove

|rowspan=3 | →

|rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Judith Cummins MP (Labour)

| Bradford South

| rowspan=3 |[https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-05-11/debates/70E7050E-185C-43C5-8200-8F160EE614BF/Committees Hansard]

Pat McFadden MP (Labour)

| Wolverhampton South East

| Ruth Jones MP (Labour)

| Newport West

Anna McMorrin MP (Labour)

| Cardiff North

| Charlotte Nichols MP (Labour)

| Warrington North

21 September 2020

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Ruth Jones MP (Labour)

| Newport West

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Zarah Sultana MP (Labour)

| Coventry South

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-09-21/debates/B3AB8465-5383-4289-998E-3D7C3103C038/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

22 February 2021

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Zarah Sultana MP (Labour)

| Coventry South

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Sarah Owen MP (Labour)

| Luton North

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-02-22/debates/5EACC1A5-061C-4EB7-B74F-8262E6BB2EFE/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

rowspan=2 |5 January 2022

|rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Judith Cummins MP (Labour)

| Bradford South

|rowspan=2 | →

|rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour)

| Gower

| rowspan=2 |[https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-01-05/debates/22010583000003/Committees Hansard]

Sarah Owen MP (Labour)

| Luton North

| Andy McDonald MP (Labour)

| Middlesbrough

rowspan=4 | 25 October 2022

| rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Richard Fuller MP (Conservative)

| North East Bedfordshire

| rowspan=4 |→

| rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Bim Afolami MP (Conservative)

| Hitchin and Harpenden

| rowspan=4 |[https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-10-25/debates/0ED919ED-4562-426D-9F32-8CE1284BF2B8/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

Nusrat Ghani MP (Conservative)

| Wealden

| Jonathan Djanogly MP (Conservative)

| Huntingdon

Paul Howell MP (Conservative)

| Sedgefield

| Ruth Edwards MP (Conservative)

| Rushcliffe

Mark Jenkinson MP (Conservative)

| Workington

| Robert Largan MP (Conservative)

| High Peak

rowspan=2 |1 November 2022

|rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Jonathan Djanogly MP (Conservative)

| Huntingdon

|rowspan=2 | →

|rowspan=2 colspan=3 | Vacant

| rowspan=2 |[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-11-01/debates/80CB97AB-DF93-4295-ADE7-6F6C0DD50881/BUSINESSENERGYANDINDUSTRIALSTRATEGY Hansard]

Robert Largan MP (Conservative)

| High Peak

8 November 2022

|colspan=3 | Vacant

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Mark Jenkinson MP (Conservative)

| Workington

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-11-08/debates/A3104B55-D1E4-41D5-AE6A-7AC4FAED158E/Committees Hansard]

21 November 2022

|colspan=3 | Vacant

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Jane Hunt MP (Conservative)

| Loughborough

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-11-21/debates/35BF4B21-65F0-4644-9540-781FF24C14D5/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

29 November 2022

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour)

| Gower

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Ian Lavery MP (Labour)

| Wansbeck

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-11-29/debates/22112963000004/Committees Hansard]

rowspan=3 |12 June 2023

|rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Ruth Edwards MP (Conservative)

| Rushcliffe

| rowspan=3 |→

| rowspan=3 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Jonathan Gullis MP (Conservative)

| Stoke-on-Trent North

| rowspan=3 | [https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-06-12/debates/A889FFE9-29DE-4604-9E6B-1DEE46577F63/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

Mark Jenkinson MP (Conservative)

| Workington

| Antony Higginbotham MP (Conservative)

| Burnley

Alexander Stafford MP (Conservative)

| Rother Valley

| Anthony Mangnall MP (Conservative)

| Totnes

4 September 2023

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Darren Jones MP (chair, Labour)

| Bristol North West

| →

| colspan=3 | Vacant

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-09-04/debates/603693C6-559A-4B2E-98C4-CDCAB77E1563/Speaker%E2%80%99SStatement Hansard]

12 September 2023

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |

| Alan Brown MP (SNP)

| Kilmarnock and Loudoun

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |

| Douglas Chapman MP (SNP)

| Dunfermline and West Fife

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-09-12/debates/5FD3770A-D44F-47F3-BB12-D95CCB9A05DA/Committees Hansard]

18 October 2023

| colspan=3 | Vacant

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Liam Byrne MP (chair, Labour)

| Birmingham Hodge Hill

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-10-18/debates/67EF00BF-722A-4FB1-8B5C-6832AD70AF88/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

11 December 2023

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Bim Afolami MP (Conservative)

| Hitchin and Harpenden

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Julie Marson MP (Conservative)

| Hertford and Stortford

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2023-12-11/debates/49442229-047B-424B-9ACE-71F9F9CB97A7/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

2017–2019

The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |title=Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-07-12/debates/B69EAA32-33CE-4783-800B-62543260ECB7/Speaker%E2%80%99SStatementSelectCommitteeChairs |house=House of Commons |date=12 July 2017 |volume= 627 }}{{cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |title=Business without Debate |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-09-11/debates/B9157055-C055-42AE-90D8-44B5F94F0959/BusinessWithoutDebate |house=House of Commons |date=11 September 2017 |volume= 628 }}

class="wikitable"

! width="160px" colspan="2" | Member

! width="160px" | Party

! width="300px" | Constituency

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Rachel Reeves MP (chair)

|Labour

|Leeds West

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |

|Drew Hendry MP

|SNP

|Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Stephen Kerr MP

|Conservative

|Stirling

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Peter Kyle MP

|Labour

|Hove

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Ian Liddell-Grainger MP

|Conservative

|Bridgwater and West Somerset

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Rachel Maclean MP

|Conservative

|Redditch

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Albert Owen MP

|Labour

|Ynys Môn

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Mark Pawsey MP

|Conservative

|Rugby

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

|Antoinette Sandbach MP

|Conservative

|Eddisbury

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

|Anna Turley MP

|Labour and Co-op

|Redcar

=Changes 2017–2019=

class="wikitable"

! valign="top" | Date

! colspan="2" valign="top" | Outgoing Member
& Party

! valign="top" | Constituency

! →

! colspan="2" valign="top" | New Member
& Party

! valign="top" | Constituency

! valign="top" | Source

16 October 2017

| colspan=3 |New seat

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Vernon Coaker MP (Labour)

| Gedling

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-10-16/debates/2FC47041-24E6-42ED-B412-7B9673FF72D5/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

18 June 2018

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Rachel Maclean MP (Conservative)

| Redditch

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Patrick McLoughlin MP (Conservative)

| Derbyshire Dales

| [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-06-18/debates/C0E5B409-CBA3-4484-81F2-D5E1A9529001/BusinessWithoutDebate Hansard]

Previous changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of the select committee, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.

class="wikitable"

! Date

! colspan="2" | Outgoing member
and party

! Constituency

! →

! colspan="2" valign="top" | New member
and party

! Constituency

! Source

rowspan=5 nowrap | 2 November 2010

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Nicky Morgan MP (Conservative)

| Loughborough

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Simon Kirby MP (Conservative)

| Brighton Kemptown

| rowspan=5 | [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101102/debtext/101102-0004.htm#1011036000005 Hansard]

rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Luciana Berger MP (Labour)

| Liverpool Wavertree

| rowspan=4 | →

| rowspan=4 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Paul Blomfield MP (Labour)

| Sheffield Central

Jack Dromey MP (Labour)

| Birmingham Erdington

| Katy Clark MP (Labour)

| North Ayrshire and Arran

Chi Onwurah MP (Labour)

| Newcastle upon Tyne Central

| Gregg McClymont MP (Labour)

| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and
Kirkintilloch East

Rachel Reeves MP (Labour)

| Leeds West

| Ian Murray MP (Labour)

| Edinburgh South

21 March 2011

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Gregg McClymont MP (Labour)

| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and
Kirkintilloch East

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Dan Jarvis MP (Labour)

| Barnsley Central

| [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm110321/debtext/110321-0004.htm#1103225000004 Hansard]

rowspan=2 | 24 October 2011

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Dan Jarvis MP (Labour)

| Barnsley Central

| rowspan=2 | →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Julie Elliott MP (Labour)

| Sunderland Central

| rowspan=2 | [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm111024/debtext/111024-0004.htm#1110251000004 Hansard]

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Ian Murray MP (Labour)

| Edinburgh South

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |

| Ann McKechin MP (Labour)

| Glasgow North

16 July 2012

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |

| David Ward MP (Liberal Democrat)

| Bradford East

| →

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |

| Mike Crockart MP (Liberal Democrat)

| Edinburgh West

| [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120716/debtext/120716-0004.htm#1207178000005 Hansard]

rowspan=2 | 5 November 2012

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Margot James MP (Conservative)

| Stourbridge

| rowspan=2 | →

| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |

| Caroline Dinenage MP (Conservative)

| Gosport

| rowspan=2 | [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm121105/debtext/121105-0004.htm#12110555000004 Hansard]

Simon Kirby MP (Conservative)

| Brighton Kemptown

| Robin Walker MP (Conservative)

| Worcester

Notable reports

In July 2022, the committee published its report "Energy pricing and the future of the energy market" which examined the turmoil in retail energy arising from unusually high wholesale gas prices, leading to the collapse of several suppliers and the need for government support of Bulb Energy. The committee found that the industry regulator Ofgem had been incompetent in its supervision of the finances of supplier companies, and that the government overlooked this lack of supervision because it prioritised competition over market regulation. The report also criticised Ofgem's design of the energy price cap, recommending that the government consider introducing a social tariff; stated that the government's May 2022 support package for customers was no longer sufficient; and criticised the absence of a home insulation programme.{{Cite web |date=26 July 2022 |title=Energy pricing and the future of the energy market – Report Summary |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmbeis/236/summary.html |access-date=10 August 2022 |website=UK Parliament}}{{Cite news |date=2022-07-26 |title=Cost-of-living payments branded insufficient as energy bills soar |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62291652 |access-date=2022-08-10}}

In response, Ofgem accepted that its previous financial resilience regime was not sufficiently robust, and had contributed to some of the supplier failures since August 2021.{{Cite web |date=26 July 2022 |title=Ofgem statement on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee's report on energy pricing and the future of the energy market |url=https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/ofgem-statement-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy-committees-report-energy-pricing-and-future-energy-market |access-date=2022-08-10 |website=Ofgem |language=en}}

References

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External links

  • [https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HC_CL_CO_EK Records for the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (2009–2016) are held at the Parliamentary Archives]
  • {{Official website|http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-energy-industrial-strategy/}}

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