Mark Pack

Party goes ahead with creation of new backbench committees

By | Wed 23rd June 2010 - 2:20 pm

One of the ideas floated by Simon Hughes to help sustain policy generation and keep a distinctive identity for the party during coalition was the creation of a team of shadow spokespeople. Shadowing a government you are a part of raises some obvious issues, and as a result the party has decided instead to create a series of new backbench committees, bringing together both MPs and peers. Their focus will be much more on policy generation, consultation and internal communication than on shadowing Conservative ministers. Parliamentarians are currently expressing interests in which committees they would wish to serve on, with the membership of them likely to be announced in around a fortnight.

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3 Comments

  • Martin 23rd Jun '10 - 2:24pm

    Didn’t this happen a week ago?

  • donald 23rd Jun '10 - 3:16pm

    A good idea. But – it still leaves us without anyone to speak on issues relating to government departments where we don’t have minister – Culture, Media & Sport, International Development (although we have Malcolm Bruce as chair of the Select Committee for this), DEFRA (we can add Wales and Northern Ireland for completeness).

    Donald

  • Aaron 23rd Jun '10 - 5:39pm

    Is this related the backbench business committee?

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