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Speaker’s Statement: Select Committee Chairs

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4:53 pm
Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)
ConservativeLife peer
The House will be aware that the deadline for nominations of Select Committee Chairs was 4 pm today. The following Committees received a single nomination, and therefore the following candidates will be elected unopposed:
Committee
Elected
Backbench Business
Ian Mearns
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Rachel Reeves
Education
Robert Halfon
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Neil Parish
Exiting the European Union
Hilary Benn
Home Affairs
Yvette Cooper
Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mr Clive Betts
Public Accounts
Meg Hillier
Scottish Affairs
Pete Wishart
Standards
Kate Green
Treasury
Mel Stride
Welsh Affairs
Stephen Crabb
Women and Equalities
Caroline Nokes
I congratulate all Members who have thus been elected. The ballot for the remaining posts will take place on Wednesday 29 January between 10 am and 4 pm in Committee Room 16, and a final list of candidates and their supporters will be available shortly in the Vote Office.