Agriculture Select Committee

The Agriculture Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was dissolved in 2001 and replaced by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee following the replacement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Remit

The select committee scrutinised the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food^[1][2] and the agricultural industry.^[3]

Membership

After the 1997 United Kingdom general election the committee had the following members:^[4]

Member		Party	Constituency
	Peter Luff MP (chair)[5]	Conservative	Mid Worcestershire
	David Borrow MP	Labour	South Ribble
	David Drew MP	Labour	Stroud
	David Curry MP	Conservative	Skipton and Ripon
	Alan Hurst MP	Labour	Braintree
	Michael Jack MP	Conservative	Fylde
	Fiona Jones MP[6]	Labour	Newark
	Paul Marsden MP	Labour	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	Austin Mitchell MP	Labour	Great Grimsby
	Lembit Öpik MP	Lib Dems	Montgomeryshire
	Mark Todd MP	Labour	South Derbyshire