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Ecclesiastical Committee

The Ecclesiastical Committee is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Committee of the General Synod.

It comprises 30 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Lord Speaker appoints 15 members from the House of Lords, and the Speaker of the House of Commons appoints 15 MPs to serve on the committee. Members are appointed to serve for the duration of a parliament.

Membership

the post-election committee has not yet been formed.

House of Commons	MP	Party	Constituency	Party
Fleur Anderson	Labour	Putney	Baroness Butler-Sloss	Crossbench
Sir Peter Bottomley	Conservative	Worthing West	Earl of Cork and Orrery	Crossbench
Sir Ben Bradshaw	Labour	Exeter	Lord Dannatt	Crossbench
Fiona Bruce	Conservative	Congleton	Baroness Eaton	Conservative
Lisa Cameron	Conservative	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow	Lord Faulkner of Worcester	Labour
Miriam Cates	Conservative		Lord Field of Birkenhead	Crossbench
Sir Roger Gale	Conservative	North Thanet	Lord Glenarthur	Conservative
David Lammy	Labour	Tottenham	Baroness Harris of Richmond
Rachael Maskell	Labour Co-op	York Central	Lord Jones	Labour
Gary Sambrook	Conservative	Birmingham Northfield	Lord Lisvane	Crossbench
Andrew Selous	Conservative	South West Bedfordshire	Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	Labour
Jim Shannon		Strangford	Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede	Labour
	Conservative	New Forest West		Labour
Stephen Timms	Labour	East Ham	Lord Taylor of Holbeach	Conservative
Martin Vickers	Conservative	Cleethorpes

Lord Cormack ( Conservative) was a member of the committee until his death in February 2024.

References

"Ecclesiastical Committee - Role". Parliament.UK.
"Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) − membership".

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