Home Affairs Select Committee

The Home Affairs Select Committee is a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Remit

The Home Affairs Committee is one of the House of Commons Select Committees related to government departments: its terms of reference are to examine "the expenditure, administration and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies".

The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It invites written evidence from interested parties and holds public evidence sessions, usually in committee rooms at the House of Commons, although it does have the power to meet away from Westminster.

At the end of each inquiry, the Committee will normally agree a Report based on the evidence received. Such Reports are published and made available on the internet. Reports usually contain recommendations to the Government and other bodies. The Government by convention responds to reports within about two months of publication. These responses are also published.

Inquiries

Current inquiries are focusing on

• Reform of the Police Funding Formula
• Countering extremism
• The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q2 2015)
• Police investigations and the role of the CPS
• The work of the Home Office
• Migration crisis
• Immigration: skill shortages
• The work of the Home Secretary
• Psychoactive substances

Recent inquiries have focused on:

• Asylum
• European Union Justice and Home Affairs opt-out
• e-Crime
• Leadership and standards in the police
• Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming
• Drugs

Membership

Keith Vaz was elected as Chair of the Home Affairs Committee on Thursday 18 June 2015.

The remaining members of the Committee were formally appointed on 8 July 2015

Member		Party	Constituency
	Keith Vaz MP (Chair)	Labour	Leicester East
	Victoria Atkins MP	Conservative	Louth and Horncastle
	James Berry MP	Conservative	Kingston and Surbiton
	David Burrowes MP	Conservative	Enfield
	Nusrat Ghani MP	Conservative	Wealden
	Ranil Jayawardena MP	Conservative	North East Hampshire
	Tim Loughton MP	Conservative	East Worthing and Shoreham
	Stuart McDonald MP	Scottish National Party	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	Naz Shah MP	Labour	Bradford West
	Chuka Umunna MP	Labour	Streatham
	David Winnick MP	Labour	Walsall North

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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 are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010		Mary Macleod MP (Conservative)	Brentford and Isleworth	→		James Clappison MP (Conservative)	Hertsmere	Hansard
14 February 2011		Aidan Burley MP (Conservative)	Cannock Chase	→		Michael Ellis MP (Conservative)	Northampton North	Hansard
22 October 2012		Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour Co-op)	Cardiff South and Penarth	→	Vacant			Vote & Proceedings
26 November 2012	Vacant			→		Karl Turner MP (Labour)	Kingston upon Hull East	Hansard
4 February 2012		Karl Turner MP (Labour)	Kingston upon Hull East	→		Chris Ruane MP (Labour)	Vale of Clwyd	Hansard
4 November 2013		Steve McCabe MP (Labour)	Birmingham, Selly Oak	→		Ian Austin MP (Labour)	Dudley North	Hansard
4 November 2013		Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour)	Houghton and Sunderland South	→		Paul Flynn MP (Labour)	Newport West	Hansard
4 November 2013		Chris Ruane MP (Labour)	Vale of Clwyd	→		Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour)	Bolton South East	Hansard

See also

• Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom

External links

• Home Affairs Committee