Rotation Rule and the Length of the Current Session
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HOUSE OF LORDS Committee of Selection 1st Report of Session 2017-19 Rotation rule and the length of the current session Ordered to be printed 20 June 2019 Published by the Authority of the House of Lords HL Paper 388 Committee of Selection The Committee of Selection is appointed by the House of Lords in each session to select and propose to the House the names of the members to form each select committee of the House (except the Committee of Selection itself and any committee otherwise provided for by statute or by order of the House) or any other body not being a select committee referred to it by the Senior Deputy Speaker, and the panel of Deputy Chairmen of Committees. Membership The Members of the Committee of Selection are: Lord Craig of Radley Lord Plant of Highfield Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Baroness Smith of Basildon Lord Hope of Craighead Lord Stoneham of Droxford Lord McAvoy Lord Taylor of Holbeach Lord McFall of Alcluith (Chairman) Viscount Ullswater Lord Newby Declaration of interests A full list of Members’ interests can be found in the Register of Lords’ Interests: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords- interests Publications All publications of the Committee are available at: http://www.parliament.uk/committeeofselection Further information Further information about the House of Lords and its Committees, including guidance to witnesses, details of current inquiries and forthcoming meetings is available at: http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords Contact details All correspondence should be addressed to the Committee of Selection, Committee Office, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW. Rotation rule and the length of the current session 1. A rotation rule operates in the case of most select committees of the House in order to secure a regular turnover of membership. Operation of the rule is such that members who have served for three successive sessions (or parts of sessions) may not be reappointed in the following two sessions.1 2. The Companion to the Standing Orders (para 11.14) states that “The rule is based on the duration of a session being approximately 12 months. In the event of a significant variation from this term the Committee of Selection may consider making ad hoc adjustments”. The current session began on 21 June 2017 and has therefore lasted for 24 months so far. As a result, a number of current committee members will have served for terms of almost four years, which is significantly in excess of the usual term length. 3. Accordingly, the Committee of Selection has agreed that the rotation rule should be applied on 1 July 2019, so as to ensure a degree of turnover in committee membership. A number of motions will be moved in the House on 1 July, in order to rotate off committees those members whose terms have expired, and to replace them with new members. 4. The end date of the current session is not yet known. The service of any newly appointed select committee member between now and the end of this session would usually count as ‘a session’ for the purposes of the rotation rule. Should the session end in the near future there is, therefore, the potential for particularly short periods of service to be taken as counting towards the rotation rule for a number of members. 5. In view of this, the Committee has agreed that, for newly appointed members of committees, service in the remainder of this session will not be counted towards the rotation rule, unless the session extends beyond 1 January 2020. Adopting this date as a cut-off point ensures that new members will be entitled to a minimum term of six calendar months before their service becomes reckonable for the purposes of rotation. 6. The remaining sections of this report, which is presented for the information of the House, provide details of anticipated changes in committee membership (including, where indicated, those resulting from member resignations) and composite lists of the membership of each committee affected by these changes. 1 The rule applies to the European Union Committee as a whole, so that no member may serve for more than three sessions across all of its sub-committees. The European Union Committee applies the rule directly to its sub-committees. 2 Rotation rule and the lenGth of the current session APPENDIX 1: PROPOSED CHANGES IN MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES The following nominations were agreed by the Committee of Selection on 17 June 2019: Communications Committee Baroness Bull in place of Baroness Kidron. Baroness Grender in place of Baroness Benjamin. Lord McInnes of Kilwinning in place of Lord Goodlad, resigned. Lord Storey in place of Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury. The Bishop of Worcester in place of the Bishop of Chelmsford Consolidation Bills, Joint Committee on Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony in place of Lord Carswell (Chairman), resigned. Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony to be appointed as Chairman. Constitution Committee Lord Faulks in place of Lord Hunt of Wirral. Baroness Fookes in place of Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market. Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield in place of Lord Judge. Lord Howarth of Newport in place of Lord Morgan. Lord True in place of Lord Norton of Louth. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee Baroness Browning in place of Lord Flight. Lord Goddard of Stockport in place of Lord Thomas of Gresford. Lord Haselhurst in place of Lord Moynihan. Baroness Meacher in place of Lord Lisvane. 1 Labour nomination to be confirmed in place of Lord Jones. 1 Liberal Democrat nomination to be confirmed in place of Lord Tyler. Economic Affairs Committee Viscount Chandos in place of Lord Layard. Lord Cunningham of Felling in place of Lord Livermore, resigned. Lord Fox in place of Lord Sharkey. Lord Livingston of Parkhead in place of Lord Lamont of Lerwick. Lord Skidelsky in place of Lord Kerr of Kinlochard. Lord Stern of Brentford in place of Lord Turnbull. Rotation rule and the lenGth of the current session 3 European Union Committee Lord Cavendish of Furness in place of Baroness Noakes. Baroness Couttie in place of the Earl of Lindsay. Baroness Donaghy in place of Lord Whitty. Lord Faulkner of Worcester in place of Lord Liddle. Baroness Hamwee in place of Baroness Suttie. Lord Kerr of Kinlochard in place of Lord Cromwell. Baroness Primarolo in place of Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top. Lord Wood of Anfield in place of Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws. 1 Labour nomination to be confirmed in place of Lord Soley 1 Liberal Democrat nomination to be confirmed in place of Baroness Falkner of Margravine Human Rights, Joint Committee on Lord Brabazon of Tara in place of Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, resigned. Baroness Ludford in place of Baroness Hamwee. Baroness Massey of Darwen in place of Baroness Prosser. Lord Morris of Handsworth in place of Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon. Lord Singh of Wimbledon in place of Lord Woolf. International Relations Committee Lord Alton of Liverpool in place of Baroness Coussins, resigned. Baroness Blackstone in place of Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, resigned. Baroness Fall in place of Lord Howell of Guildford (chairman), resigned. Lord Mendelsohn in place of Lord Wood of Anfield, resigned. Baroness Rawlings in place of Lord Jopling, resigned. Baroness Anelay of St Johns to be appointed as Chairman. Liaison Committee Lord Bradley in place of Lord Foulkes of Cumnock. Lord Tyler in place of Baroness Garden of Frognal. National Security Strategy, Joint Committee on Baroness Hodgson of Abinger in place of Lord Trimble. Baroness Neville-Jones in place of Lord Hamilton of Epsom. Procedure Committee Lord Bew in place of Lord Powell of Bayswater. Lord Eames in place of Lord Rowe-Beddoe. 4 Rotation rule and the lenGth of the current session Baroness Falkner of Margravine in place of Baroness Humphreys. Lord Mancroft in place of Lord Brabazon of Tara. Viscount Ullswater in place of Lord True. Alternate Members Baroness Finlay of Llandaff in place of Baroness Meacher. Lord Turnbull in place of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. Science and Technology Committee Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist in place of Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, resigned. Lord Browne of Ladyton in place of Lord Hunt of Chesterton. Baroness Hilton of Eggardon in place of Baroness Morgan of Huyton. Lord Hollick in place of Lord Maxton. Baroness Manningham-Buller in place of Lord Oxburgh, resigned. Viscount Ridley in place of Baroness Neville-Jones. Baroness Sheehan in place of Lord Fox. Baroness Walmsley in place of Lord Vallance of Tummel. Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville in place of Lord Goddard of Stockport. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts in place of Lord Trefgarne (Chairman). The Earl of Lindsay in place of Baroness Finn, resigned. Lord Lisvane in place of Lord Janvrin. Baroness Watkins of Tavistock in place of Baroness O’Loan. 1 Labour nomination to be confirmed in place of Lord Haskel. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts to be appointed as Chairman. Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee Lord McColl of Dulwich in place of Lord Goodlad, resigned. Statutory Instruments, Joint Committee on Lord Armstrong of Ilminster in place of Baroness Meacher. Lord Colgrain in place of Lord Lexden. Lord Haskel in place of Lord Rowlands. Rotation rule and the lenGth of the current session 5 APPENDIX 2: UPDATED MEMBERSHIP LIST FOR EACH COMMITTEE SUBJECT TO MEMBERSHIP CHANGES PROPOSED FOR 1 JULY Communications Committee Member Party affiliation Lord Allen of Kensington Labour Lord Bethell Conservative Baroness Bull Crossbench Baroness