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The Environmental Audit Select 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 how government departments' policies and programmes will affect both the environment and sustainable development.^[1]

The Committee was founded in 1997^[2] by the incoming Labour government as a cross departmental select committee with the idea that environmental issues affect a number of departments.^[3]

Membership

Membership of the committee is as follows:^[4][5]

2019-2024 Parliament

The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.^[6][7]

2017-2019 Parliament

The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.^[9][10]

2015-2017 Parliament

The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 20 July 2015.^[11][12]

2010-2015 Parliament

The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 26 July 2010.^[14][15]

List of chairs

See also

• Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom

References

External links

• Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives
• Environmental Audit Select Committee home page