Wikipedian hubThe Housing and Communities Committee (formerly the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee) is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the work, the expenditure, administration and policies of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and its associated public bodies.
Membership of the committee is as follows:[1][2]
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2025 | Mike Amesbury MP (Independent) | Runcorn and Helsby | → | Andrew Lewin MP (Labour) | Welwyn Hatfield | Hansard | ||
The chair was elected on 27 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.[3][4]
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.[5][6]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clive Betts MP (Chair) | Labour | Sheffield South East | |
| Mike Amesbury MP | Conservative | Weaver Vale | |
| Bob Blackman MP | Conservative | Harrow East | |
| Helen Hayes MP | Labour | Dulwich and West Norwood | |
| Kevin Hollinrake MP | Conservative | Thirsk and Malton | |
| Fiona Onasanya MP | Labour | Peterborough | |
| Andrew Lewer MP | Conservative | Northampton South | |
| Mark Prisk MP | Conservative | Hertford and Stortford | |
| Mary Robinson MP | Conservative | Cheadle | |
| Liz Twist MP | Labour | Blaydon | |
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 December 2017 | New seat | → | Jo Platt MP (Labour and Co-op) | Leigh | Hansard | |||
| 5 February 2018 | Fiona Onasanya MP (Independent) | Peterborough | → | Matt Western MP (Labour) | Warwick and Leamington | Hansard | ||
| 23 July 2018 | Mike Amesbury MP (Labour) | Weaver Vale | → | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (Labour) | Slough | Hansard | ||
| Jo Platt MP (Labour and Co-op) | Leigh | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | |||||
| 20 May 2019 | Liz Twist MP (Labour) | Blaydon | → | Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour) | Bedford | Hansard | ||
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 13 July 2015.[7][8]
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2015 | Angela Rayner MP (Labour) | Ashton-under-Lyne | → | Liz Kendall MP (Labour) | Leicester West | Hansard | ||
| 7 March 2016 | Jo Cox MP (Labour) | Batley and Spen | → | Jim McMahon MP (Labour and Co-op) | Oldham West and Royton | Hansard | ||
| 31 October 2016 | Liz Kendall MP (Labour) | Leicester West | → | Rushanara Ali MP (Labour and Co-op) | Bethnal Green and Bow | Hansard | ||
| Jim McMahon MP (Labour and Co-op) | Oldham West and Royton | Melanie Onn MP (Labour) | Great Grimsby | |||||
| 18 April 2017 | Julian Knight MP (Conservative) | Solihull | → | Christopher Chope MP (Conservative) | Christchurch | Hansard | ||
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010.[9][10]
| Chair | Party | Constituency | First elected | Method | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clive Betts | Labour | Sheffield South East (Sheffield Attercliffe 1992–2010) |
10 June 2010 | Elected by the House of Commons[11] | |
| Phyllis Starkey | Labour | Milton Keynes South West | 28 June 2006 | Elected by the Select Committee[12] | |
| Previously as Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee | |||||
| Phyllis Starkey | Labour | Milton Keynes South West | 14 July 2005 | Elected by the Select Committee[12] | |
| Andrew Bennett | Labour | Denton and Reddish | 23 July 2002 | Elected by the Select Committee[13] | |
From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes.[14] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.[15]
| 30 January 2020[16] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||
| Votes | % | ||
| Clive Betts | Unopposed | ||
| Not redistributed | |||
| Valid votes | |||
| 12 July 2017[17] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||
| Votes | % | ||
| Clive Betts | 335 | 59.4 | |
| David Lammy | 229 | 40.6 | |
| Not redistributed | |||
| Valid votes | 564 | ||
| 17 June 2015[18] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||
| Votes | % | ||
| Clive Betts | Unopposed | ||
| Not redistributed | |||
| Valid votes | |||
| 9 June 2010[11] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||
| Votes | % | ||
| Clive Betts | 279 | 50.3 | |
| Nick Raynsford | 276 | 49.7 | |
| Not redistributed | |||
| Valid votes | 555 | ||
That Andrew Lewin be a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.—(Mark Tami, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
