Liaison Committee (House of Commons of the United Kingdom)

The Liaison Committee is a committee of the British House of Commons, the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. The committee consists of the chairs of the 32 Commons select committees and the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

The role of the committee is to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees. It advises the House of Commons Commission on select committees as well as choosing select committee reports for debate in the chamber.

Since 2002, the Prime Minister has appeared annually before the Liaison Committee in order to give evidence on matters of public policy. The Liaison Committee is the only Commons committee that questions the prime minister and generally meets three times a year.^[1][2]

Membership

As of 19 December 2024, the members of the committee are as follows:^[3]

	Member	Party	Constituency	Committee
	Dame Meg Hillier (Chair)	Labour Co-op	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Treasury
	Debbie Abrahams	Labour	Oldham East and Saddleworth	Work and Pensions
	Tonia Antoniazzi	Labour	Gower	Northern Irish Affairs
	Bob Blackman	Conservative	Harrow East	Backbench Business
	Dame Karen Bradley	Conservative	Staffordshire Moorlands	Home Affairs
	Liam Byrne	Labour	Birmingham Hodge Hill & Solihull North	Business and Trade
	Ruth Cadbury	Labour	Brentford & Isleworth	Transport
	Alistair Carmichael	Liberal Democrats	Orkney & Shetland	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	Sarah Champion	Labour	Rotherham	International Development
	Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	Conservative	North Cotswolds	Public Accounts
	Alberto Costa	Conservative	South Leicestershire	Standards
	Tan Dhesi	Labour	Slough	Defence
	Dame Caroline Dinenage	Conservative	Gosport	Culture, Media and Sport
	Florence Eshalomi	Labour Co-op	Vauxhall & Camberwell Green	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	Bill Esterson	Labour	Sefton Central	Energy Security and Net Zero
	Patricia Ferguson	Labour	Glasgow West	Scottish Affairs
	Helen Hayes	Labour	Dulwich and West Norwood	Education
	Simon Hoare	Conservative	North Dorset	Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs
	Sir Bernard Jenkin	Conservative	Harwich and North Essex	Statutory Instruments
	Ruth Jones	Labour	Newport West & Islwyn	Welsh Affairs
	Layla Moran	Liberal Democrats	Oxford West & Abingdon	Health and Social Care
	Jessica Morden	Labour	Newport East	Selection
	Chi Onwurah	Labour	Newcastle upon Tyne Central & West	Science, Innovation and Technology
	Sarah Owen	Labour	Luton North	Women and Equalities
	Toby Perkins	Labour	Chesterfield	Environmental Audit
	Andy Slaughter	Labour	Hammersmith and Chiswick	Justice
	Cat Smith	Labour	Lancaster & Wyre	Procedure
	Jamie Stone	Liberal Democrats	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	Petitions
	Dame Emily Thornberry	Labour	Islington South & Finsbury	Foreign Affairs

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament