Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee

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.

Formation

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.

Reformation

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]

Membership

Membership of the committee is as follows:^[4]

Member		Party	Constituency
	Bill Esterson MP (Chair)	Labour	Sefton Central
	Polly Billington MP	Labour	East Thanet
	Christopher Chope MP	Conservative	Christchurch
	Torcuil Crichton MP	Labour	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	Wera Hobhouse MP	Lib Dems	Bath
	Anneliese Midgley MP	Labour	Knowsley
	Luke Murphy MP	Labour	Basingstoke
	Melanie Onn MP	Labour	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
	Mike Reader MP	Labour	Northampton South
	Bradley Thomas MP	Conservative	Bromsgrove
	Claire Young MP	Lib Dems	Thornbury and Yate

Changes since 2024

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
13 January 2025		Julie Minns MP (Labour)	Carlisle	→		Mike Reader MP (Labour)	Northampton South	Hansard
17 March 2025		Josh MacAlister MP (Labour)	Whitehaven and Workington	→		Melanie Onn MP (Labour)	Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes	Hansard

2019-2024 Parliament

Angus MacNeil was elected chair on 26 April 2023.^[5][6] The other members of the committee were formally appointed on 12 June 2023.^[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

Changes 2019-2024

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 (Labour)[a]	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	→		Thérèse Coffey MP (Conservative)	Suffolk Coastal	Hansard

1. Appointed as a Conservative.

Former membership

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

Changes

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