Panel of Chairs

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The Panel of Chairs (formerly the Chairman's Panel) are members of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom responsible for chairing public bill committees and other General Committees. They may also chair debates in Westminster Hall, the parallel debating chamber. The three Deputy Speakers, who are automatically members, are responsible for chairing Committees of the Whole House. Other members may act as temporary chairs of Committees of the Whole House.{{Cite web |date=14 November 2024 |title=Role - Panel of Chairs |url=https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/11/panel-of-chairs/role/ |website=UK Parliament}}

The Panel is chaired by the Chairman of Ways and Means. 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.Public Business Standing Order 85(4).

Members

The panel comprises the Chairman and two Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means, who are members ex officio, 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.

Members of the Panel of Chairs, as of 31 January 2025:{{Cite web |title=Panel of Chairs - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament |url=https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/11/panel-of-chairs/membership/ |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=committees.parliament.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=29 January 2025 |title=Memorandum, Panel of Chairs |url=https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/92054/Html?subType=Standard#anchor-61 |access-date=31 January 2025 |website=UK Parliament}}

class="wikitable"

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

! width="160px" |Party

! width="300px" |Constituency

!Notes

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

|Nusrat Ghani MP

|Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Judith Cummins MP

|Bradford South

|First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Caroline Nokes MP

|Romsey and Southampton North

|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP

|

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

|Clive Betts MP

|Sheffield South East

|

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

|Dawn Butler MP

|Labour Co-operative

|

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

|Sir Christopher Chope MP

|

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

|

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

|Clive Efford MP

|

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

|Gill Furniss MP

|Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

|

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

|Sir Roger Gale MP

|Herne Bay and Sandwich

|

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

|Carolyn Harris MP

|Neath and Swansea East

|

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

|Sir John Hayes MP

|South Holland and the Deepings

|

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

|Sir Mark Hendrick MP

|Labour Co-operative

|

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

|Wera Hobhouse MP

|Liberal Democrats

|

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

|Dr Rupa Huq MP

|Ealing Central and Acton

|

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

|Christine Jardine MP

|Liberal Democrats

|Edinburgh West

|

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

|Sir Edward Leigh MP

|

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

|Emma Lewell-Buck MP

|

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

|Siobhain McDonagh MP

|Mitcham and Morden

|

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

|Esther McVey MP

|

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

|David Mundell MP

|Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

|

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

|Dr Andrew Murrison MP

|South West Wiltshire

|

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

|Mark Pritchard MP

|

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

|Graham Stringer MP

|Blackley and Broughton

|

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

|Graham Stuart MP

|Beverley and Holderness

|

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

|Desmond Swayne MP

|New Forest West

|

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

|Karl Turner MP

|Kingston upon Hull East

|

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

|Derek Twigg MP

|Widnes and Halewood

|

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

|Valerie Vaz MP

|Walsall and Bloxwich

|

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

|Martin Vickers MP

|Brigg and Immingham

|

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

|Matt Western MP

|Warwick and Leamington

|

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

|Sir Jeremy Wright MP

|Kenilworth and Southam

|

Members of the Panel of Chairs, as of 15 October 2021:{{Cite web|title=Panel of Chairs - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament|url=https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/11/panel-of-chairs/membership/|access-date=2020-07-08|website=committees.parliament.uk|language=en}}

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

! width="160px" |Party

! width="300px" |Constituency

!Notes

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

|Dame Eleanor Laing MP

|Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Dame Rosie Winterton MP

|Doncaster Central

|First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Nigel Evans MP

|Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

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

|Rushanara Ali MP

|Bethnal Green and Bow

|

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

|Hannah Bardell MP

|Scottish National Party

|

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

|Clive Betts MP

|Sheffield South East

|

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

|Wellingborough

|

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

|Sir Graham Brady MP

|Altrincham and Sale West

|

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

|Westminster North

|

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

|Sir Christopher Chope MP

|

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

|Judith Cummins MP

|Bradford South

|Previously Acting Deputy Speaker

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

|Geraint Davies MP

|Labour Co-operative

|

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

|Philip Davies MP

|

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

|

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

|Dame Angela Eagle MP

|

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

|Clive Efford MP

|

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

|Julie Elliott MP

|Sunderland Central

|

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

|Yvonne Fovargue MP

|

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

|Sir Roger Gale MP

|

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

|Nusrat Ghani MP

|

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

|North Wiltshire

|

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

|Sir Mark Hendrick MP

|Labour Co-operative

|

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

|Philip Hollobone MP

|

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

|Stewart Hosie MP

|Scottish National Party

|

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

|Sir George Howarth MP

|

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

|Ealing Central and Acton

|

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

|Sir Edward Leigh MP

|

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

|Steve McCabe MP

|Birmingham, Selly Oak

|

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

|Siobhain McDonagh MP

|Mitcham and Morden

|

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

|Esther McVey MP

|

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

|Dame Maria Miller MP

|

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

|David Mundell MP

|Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

|

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

|Sheryll Murray MP

|South East Cornwall

|

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

|Caroline Nokes MP

|Romsey and Southampton North

|

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Unionist Party}}" |

|Ian Paisley MP

|Democratic Unionist Party

|

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

|Mark Pritchard MP

|

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

|Christina Rees MP

|Labour Co-operative

|

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

|Laurence Robertson MP

|

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

|Andrew Rosindell MP

|

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

|Virendra Sharma MP

|Ealing, Southall

|

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

|Gary Streeter MP

|South West Devon

|

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

|Graham Stringer MP

|Blackley and Broughton

|

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

|Derek Twigg MP

|

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

|Sir Charles Walker MP

|

The Panel of Chairs was nominated by the Speaker on 22 June 2017:

Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Labour), Chairman of Ways and Means
Dame Eleanor Laing (Conservative), First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
Dame Rosie Winterton (Labour), Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
Sir David Amess (Conservative)
Ian Austin (Independent, previously Labour)
Adrian Bailey (Labour (Co-op))
Sir Henry Bellingham (Conservative)
Clive Betts (Labour)
Peter Bone (Conservative)
Sir Graham Brady (Conservative)
Karen Buck (Labour)
Sir Christopher Chope (Conservative)
Sir David Crausby (Labour)
Geraint Davies (Labour (Co-op))
Philip Davies (Conservative)
Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
Nigel Evans (Conservative)
Sir Roger Gale (Conservative)
Mike Gapes (Labour (Co-op))
Dame Cheryl Gillan (Conservative)
James Gray (Conservative)
David Hanson (Labour)
Philip Hollobone (Conservative)
Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party)
George Howarth (Labour)
Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative)
Steve McCabe (Labour)
Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)
Anne Main (Conservative)
Madeleine Moon (Labour)
Albert Owen (Labour)
Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party)
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)
Laurence Robertson (Conservative)
Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)
Joan Ryan (Labour)
Virendra Sharma (Labour)
Gary Streeter (Conservative)
Graham Stringer (Labour)
Charles Walker (Conservative)
Phil Wilson (Labour)

As of December 2015, the members were 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)

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