Finance Committee (House of Commons)

The Finance Committee, until 2015 known as the Finance and Services Committee, is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The committee considers expenditure on and the administration of services for the House of Commons, and it has responsibility for detailed scrutiny of the House’s budget.

Membership

As of 20 April 2016, the members of the committee are as follows:

Member		Party	Constituency
	The Rt Hon. Nick Brown MP (Chair)	Labour	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	Jake Berry MP	Conservative	Rossendale and Darwen
	Clive Betts MP	Labour	Sheffield South East
	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP	Conservative	Cotswold
	Mark Garnier MP	Conservative	Wyre Forest
	Neil Gray MP	SNP	Airdrie and Shotts
	Rt Hon Sir Alan Haselhurst MP	Conservative	Saffron Walden
	Hon Lindsay Hoyle MP	Labour	Chorley
	Helen Jones MP	Labour	Warrington North
	Kwasi Kwarteng MP	Conservative	Spelthorne
	Karen Lumley MP	Conservative	Redditch

Source: [1]

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 between 2010 and January 2013 are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
8 November 2010		Luciana Berger MP (Labour Co-op)	Liverpool Wavertree	→		Clive Betts MP (Labour)	Sheffield South East	Hansard
14 November 2011		Brooks Newmark MP (Conservative)	Braintree	→		Shailesh Vara MP (Conservative)	North West Cambridgeshire	Hansard
30 January 2012		Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour Co-op)	Stalybridge and Hyde	→		George Howarth MP (Labour)	Knowsley	Hansard
14 January 2013		Shailesh Vara MP (Conservative)	North West Cambridgeshire	→		Greg Knight MP (Conservative)	Derby North	Hansard

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament