Joint Committee on Human Rights

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is a select committee of both the House of Commons and House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to consider human rights issues in the United Kingdom.

Purpose

The Committee undertakes thematic inquiries on human rights issues and reports its findings and recommendations to the House[s of Commons and Lords]. It scrutinises all Government Bills and picks out those with significant human rights implications for further examination.
The Committee also looks at Government action to deal with judgments of the UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights where breaches of human rights have been found. As part of this work, the Committee looks at Remedial Orders, the legislative mechanism that allows legislation to be amended in response to these judgments.
— Source: Committee website ^[1]

Membership

As of 25 May 2016, the current members of the committee are as follows:

	Party	Constituency
Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP (Chair)	Labour	Camberwell and Peckham
Fiona Bruce MP	Conservative	Congleton
Karen Buck MP	Labour	Westminster North
Baroness Hamwee	Liberal Democrats	—
Lord Henley	Conservative	—
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon	Labour	—
Jeremy Lefroy MP	Conservative	Stafford
Mark Pritchard	Conservative	The Wrekin
Baroness Prosser	Labour	—
Amanda Solloway	Conservative	Derby North
Lord Trimble	Conservative	—
Lord Woolf	Crossbench	—

Source:

Changes

Unlike the Commons, the Lords elects its members of the committee at the beginning of each session. Occasionally, the Lords, during a session, or the Commons, during a Parliament, may make changes to its membership on the committee. Such changes are shown below.

Date		Constituency	→		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010	Andy Slaughter MP (Labour)	Hammersmith	→	Virendra Sharma MP (Labour)	Ealing Southall	Hansard
28 March 2011	Eleanor Laing MP (Conservative)	Epping Forest	→	Rehman Chishti MP (Conservative)	Gillingham and Rainham	Hansard
23 May 2011	Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrats)	Cambridge	→	Michael Crockart MP (Liberal Democrats)	Edinburgh West	Hansard
14 June 2012	Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (Crossbench)	—	→	Baroness O'Loan (Crossbench)	—	Hansard
5 November 2012	Michael Crockart MP (Liberal Democrats)	Edinburgh West	→	Simon Hughes MP (Liberal Democrats)	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	Hansard
11 February 2013	Dominic Raab MP (Conservative)	Esher and Walton	→	Robert Buckland MP (Conservative)	South Swindon	Hansard

References

↑ Purpose of Committee, from homepage.

External links

Joint Committee on Human Rights

Current Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom

Commons

Departmental	Business, Innovation and Skills Communities and Local Government Culture, Media and Sport Defence Education Exiting the European Union International Trade Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Foreign Affairs Health Home Affairs International Development Justice Northern Ireland Affairs Political and Constitutional Reform Science and Technology Scottish Affairs Transport Treasury Welsh Affairs Work and Pensions

Topical	Arms Export Controls Environmental Audit European Scrutiny Petitions Public Accounts Public Administration Regulatory Reform Statutory Instruments Women and Equalities

General	Panel of Chairs Public bill committee Delegated Legislation Committee European Committees Northern Ireland Grand Committee Regional Affairs Committee Scottish Grand Committee Welsh Grand Committee English Grand Committee

Internal	Administration Finance and Services Backbench Business Liaison Members' Expenses Procedure Selection Standards and Privileges Works of Art

Lords

Topical	Communications Constitution Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Economic Affairs European Union International Relations Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Science and Technology

Private business	Hybrid Instruments Standing Orders Internal: House Liaison Committee Privileges and Conduct Procedure Selection

Domestic	Administration and Works Information Refreshment Works of Art

Joint

Select	Consolidation, &c., Bills Joint Committee on Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee on Draft Protection of Charities Bill Human Rights National Security Strategy Joint Committee on Palace of Westminster Statutory Instruments

Statutory

Commons	House of Commons Commission Administration Estimate Audit Members Estimate Members Estimate Audit Public Accounts Commission Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Joint	Ecclesiastical Committee Intelligence and Security

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