Panel of Chairs
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. 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.
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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.[1]
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.[2]
Members
[edit]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,[1] 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 February 2026:[3][4]
Members of the Panel of Chairs, as of 15 October 2021:[5]
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)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Role - Panel of Chairs". UK Parliament. 14 November 2024.
- ^ Public Business Standing Order 85(4).
- ^ "Panel of Chairs - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ "Memorandum, Panel of Chairs". UK Parliament. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ "Panel of Chairs - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2020.