The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, formerly the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee,[1] is one of the select committees of the House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for National Heritage.
Membership
editMembers are as follows.[2]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Dinenage MP (Chair) | Conservative | Gosport | |
| Bayo Alaba MP | Labour | Southend East and Rochford | |
| Vicky Foxcroft MP | Labour | Lewisham North | |
| Damian Hinds MP | Conservative | East Hampshire | |
| Rupa Huq MP | Labour | Ealing Central and Acton | |
| Natasha Irons MP | Labour | Croydon East | |
| Liz Jarvis MP | Liberal Democrats | Eastleigh | |
| Anneliese Midgley MP | Labour | Knowsley | |
| Jo Platt MP | Labour | Leigh and Atherton | |
| Jeff Smith MP | Labour | Manchester Withington | |
| Cameron Thomas MP | Independent[a] | Tewkesbury | |
Changes since 2024
edit| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 December 2024 | Mims Davies MP (Conservative) | East Grinstead and Uckfield | → | Damian Hinds MP (Conservative) | East Hampshire | Hansard | ||
| 27 October 2025 | James Frith MP (Labour) | Bury North | → | Vicky Foxcroft MP (Labour) | Lewisham North | Hansard | ||
| Tom Rutland MP (Labour) | East Worthing and Shoreham | Anneliese Midgley MP (Labour) | Knowsley | |||||
| Paul Waugh MP (Labour) | Rochdale | Jeff Smith MP (Labour) | Manchester Withington | |||||
| 13 November 2025 | Zöe Franklin MP (Liberal Democrats) | Guildford | → | Cameron Thomas MP (Independent)[b] | Tewkesbury | Hansard | ||
2019-2024 Parliament
editThe chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.[3][4]
After the previous Chair Julian Knight recused himself from Parliament, Damian Green was selected as the Acting Chair of the committee.[5] He held this role until Dame Caroline Dinenage was elected as the new Chair on 17 May 2023.[6]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julian Knight MP (Chair) | Conservative | Solihull | |
| Kevin Brennan MP | Labour | Cardiff West | |
| Steve Brine MP | Conservative | Winchester | |
| Philip Davies MP | Conservative | Shipley | |
| Clive Efford MP | Labour | Eltham | |
| Julie Elliott MP | Labour | Sunderland Central | |
| Damian Green MP | Conservative | Ashford | |
| Damian Hinds MP | Conservative | East Hampshire | |
| John Nicolson MP | Scottish National Party | Ochil and South Perthshire | |
| Jo Stevens MP | Labour | Cardiff Central | |
| Giles Watling MP | Conservative | Clacton | |
Changes 2019-2024
edit| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2020 | Jo Stevens MP (Labour) | Cardiff Central | → | Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) | Pontypridd | Hansard | ||
| 9 November 2020 | Philip Davies MP (Conservative) | Shipley | → | Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) | South Derbyshire | Hansard | ||
| 19 October 2021 | Damian Hinds MP (Conservative) | East Hampshire | → | Simon Jupp MP (Conservative) | East Devon | Hansard | ||
| Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) | South Derbyshire | Jane Stevenson MP (Conservative) | Wolverhampton North East | |||||
| 7 March 2022 | Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) | Pontypridd | → | Rupa Huq MP (Labour) | Ealing Central and Acton | Hansard | ||
| 24 April 2023 | Julian Knight MP (Chair, independent) | Solihull | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
| 17 May 2023 | Vacant | → | Dame Caroline Dinenage MP (Chair, Conservative) | Gosport | Hansard | |||
| 15 January 2024 | Kevin Brennan MP (Labour) | Cardiff West | → | Alex Sobel MP (Labour) | Leeds North West | Hansard | ||
Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
edit| Chair | Party | Constituency | First elected | Method | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dame Caroline Dinenage | Conservative | Gosport | 17 May 2023 | Elected by the House of Commons[7] | |
| As Digitial, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee | |||||
| Julian Knight | Conservative/Independent | Solihull | 29 January 2020 | Elected by the House of Commons[8] | |
| Damian Collins | Conservative | Folkestone and Hythe | 12 July 2017 | Elected by the House of Commons[9] | |
| As Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee | |||||
| Damian Collins | Conservative | Folkestone and Hythe | 19 October 2016 | Elected by the House of Commons[10] | |
| Jesse Norman | Conservative | Hereford and South Herefordshire | 17 June 2015 | Elected by the House of Commons[11] | |
| John Whittingdale | Conservative | Maldon (Maldon and East Chelmsford 1997–2010) |
11 July 2005 | Elected by the Select Committee[12] (and the House of Commons in 2010) | |
| Gerald Kaufman | Labour | Manchester Gorton | 14 July 1997 | Elected by the Select Committee[13] | |
| As National Heritage Select Committee | |||||
| Gerald Kaufman | Labour | Manchester Gorton | 27 April 1992 | Elected by the Select Committee | |
Election results
editFrom 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]
| 9 September 2024[16] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||||
| Dame Caroline Dinenage | Unopposed | ||||||||||
| Not redistributed | |||||||||||
| Valid votes | |||||||||||
| 17 May 2023[17] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||||
| Dame Caroline Dinenage | 198 | 51.7 | |||||||||
| Damian Collins | 100 | 26.1 | |||||||||
| Damian Green | 85 | 22.2 | |||||||||
| Not redistributed | |||||||||||
| Valid votes | 383 | ||||||||||
| 29 January 2020[18] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||||
| Julian Knight | 283 | 50.8 | |||||||||
| Damian Collins | 274 | 49.2 | |||||||||
| Not redistributed | |||||||||||
| Valid votes | 557 | ||||||||||
| 12 July 2017[19] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||||
| Damian Collins | Unopposed | ||||||||||
| Not redistributed | |||||||||||
| Valid votes | |||||||||||
| 19 October 2016[10] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | ||||||||||
| Damian Collins | 302 | 56.8 | |||||||||
| Helen Grant | 230 | 43.2 | |||||||||
| Not redistributed | |||||||||||
| Valid votes | 532 | ||||||||||
| 17 June 2015[11] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | 4th round | |||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Jesse Norman | 221 | 36.8 | 240 | 40.6 | 268 | 47.2 | 319 | 60.2 | |
| Graham Stuart | 157 | 26.2 | 164 | 27.7 | 178 | 31.3 | 211 | 39.8 | |
| Damian Green | 93 | 15.5 | 97 | 16.4 | 122 | 21.5 | Eliminated | ||
| Damian Collins | 87 | 14.5 | 90 | 15.2 | Eliminated | ||||
| Jason McCartney | 42 | 7.0 | Eliminated | ||||||
| Not redistributed | 9 | 1.5 | 32 | 5.3 | 70 | 11.7 | |||
| Valid votes | 600 | 591 | 568 | 530 | |||||
| 9 June 2010[20] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | 1st round | ||
| Votes | % | ||
| John Whittingdale | Unopposed | ||
| Not redistributed | |||
| Valid votes | |||
See also
editNotes
edit- ↑ Suspendend from Liberal Democrats.
- ↑ Suspended from Liberal Democrats
References
edit- ↑ "CRole - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ↑ "Culture, Media and Sport Committee membership appointed". committees.parliament.uk. Culture, Media and Sport Committee. 29 October 2024. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ↑ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 670. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 6 May 2020. Archived 10 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Committees". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 672. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 2 March 2020. Archived 10 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Damian Green MP chosen as acting Chair of DCMS Committee". Parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ↑ "Dame Caroline Dinenage MP elected Chair of Culture, Media and Sport Committee". UK Parliament. 17 May 2023. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ↑ "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 732. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 17 May 2023. col. 898. Retrieved 17 July 2023. Archived 17 July 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs - Wednesday 29 January 2020 - Hansard - UK Parliament". hansard.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ↑ "ELECTION FOR CHAIRS OF SELECT COMMITTEES: RESULT" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 12 July 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- 1 2 "Damian Collins elected Chair of Culture, Media and Sport Committee - News from Parliament - UK Parliament". Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- 1 2 "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ↑ "John Whittingdale MP, Maldon". TheyWorkForYou. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ↑ "House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - First Special Report". publications.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ "Standing Orders of the House of Commons". publications.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ↑ Gorb, Aleksandra; Priddy, Sarah (20 February 2021). "Chairs of Commons select committees in the 2019 Parliament". Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021 – via commonslibrary.parliament.uk.
- ↑ "Caroline Dinenage elected as Chair of Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 6 October 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
- ↑ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- ↑ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ↑ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ↑ "Results" (PDF). www.parliament.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2021.