The party has today announced the list of Liberal Democrat MPs have been nominated to serve on Select Committees:
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Business, Innovation and Skills – David Ward
Communities and Local Government – Stephen Gilbert
Culture, Media & Sport – Adrian Sanders
Defence – Mike Hancock
Education – Tessa Munt
Energy and Climate Change – Sir Robert Smith
Environmental Audit Committee – Simon Wright
Environment Food and Rural Affairs – Dan Rogerson
Foreign Affairs – Menzies Campbell
Health – Andrew George
Home Affairs – Julian Huppert
International Development [Chair] – Malcolm Bruce
Justice [Chair] – Sir Alan Beith
Procedure Committee – John Hemming
Political and Constitutional Reform – Stephen Williams
Public Accounts – Ian Swales
Public Administration – Greg Mulholland
Science and Technology – Roger Williams
Scottish Affairs – Alan Reid
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) – John Hemming
Transport – John Leech
Treasury – John Thurso
Welsh Affairs – Mark Williams
Work and Pensions – Stephen Lloyd
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I sort of guessed Mark would end up on Welsh Affairs. :p
Why is Julian Huppert not on Science & Technology?
Wot Darren asked. Surely a more natural placing?
*mumble* Bloody people of Oxford West and Abingdon…*mumble*
I’m sure I’ve seen Julian writing in various places that he doesn’t want to get typecast as only being a scientist. He’s involved with and on the national council of Liberty, which doesn’t seem out-of-step with Home Affairs.
Andy, Evan lost his seat from pure bad luck. Two strongly LD central Oxford wards went to Oxford East, two strongly Tory country wards went to Oxford West and Abingdon. Also, he had (as it turns out, false) expenses allegations levied on him and Oxford West and Abingdon was seen as being a safe seat so many LDs didn’t turn up or decided to vote Green to support an underdog. If we had 325 MPs in the commons overall then Evan would be one of them – LDs got the most votes overall in the two Oxford seats, it just happens that the most LD area is split across the two seats. If we had 1300 MPs rather than 650 overall then we would probably have Evan and Steve Goddard (I think that was the Oxford East LD candidate) and Labour and the Tories would each have one MP from the Oxford and Abingdon seats. Can’t really blame the voters here, except maybe for the last one 😛
Come to think of it the division of Oxford is actually completely stupid. The centre of the city has a lot to do with the north and west of the city (areas like Jericho and Summertown) but much of the east of the city (Cowley, Blackbird Leys etc) has a completely distinct identity from Oxford – Temple Cowley feels like it’s its own little town rather than an area of Oxford. In any case, not a single Tory councillor has been elected to the City Council so it seems a bit wrong that a third of the city has a Tory MP – it would make more sense for there to be Oxford West (including the centre) and Oxford East and to hive off Abingdon to a country seat tbh.