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The '''Energy and Climate Change Select Committee''' is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the [[Department of Energy and Climate Change]] and its associated public bodies.<ref>House of Commons Select Committees, [http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change-committee/ Energy and Climate Change Committee], accessed 10 November 2010. </ref>


==Members==
===2015===
[[Angus Brendan MacNeil]] from the [[Scottish National Party]] was elected committee chair on 18 June 2015. The other members were elected 8 July 2015.
:'''Member''' 	                 '''Party'''
*[[Alistair Carmichael]] MP 	Liberal Democrat
*[[Glyn Davies]] MP 	Conservative
*[[James Heappey]] MP 	Conservative
*[[Ian Lavery]] MP 	Labour
*[[Melanie Onn]] MP 	Labour
*[[Matthew Pennycook]] MP 	Labour
*[[Dr Poulter]] MP 	Conservative
*[[Antoinette Sandbach]] MP 	Conservative
*[[Julian Sturdy]] MP 	Conservative
*[[Alan Whitehead]] MP 	Labour
*[[Rushanara Ali]]MP     Labour 
*[[Tom Blenkinsop]]       Labour

===2010-2015===
[[Tim Yeo]] was elected by the House as Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee on 9 June 2010. Three years later, on 10 June 2013, he 'temporarily' quit the chairmanship pending a Parliamentary standards investigation into media allegations that he had breached lobbying rules by helping a firm he worked for prepare to appear before his committee.<ref name="lobbying"> Matt Chorley, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339450/Energy-committee-replaces-chairman-caught-lobbying-scandal-Lib-Dem-shares-Shell-donation-BP.html#ixzz2Vudeq3xU Energy committee replaces chairman caught up in lobbying scandal with Lib Dem with shares in Shell and a donation from BP], Mail Online, 11 June 2013 </ref>

The following members were appointed Wednesday 3 November 2010:
:'''Member''' 	                 '''Party'''
*[[Tim Yeo]] (Chair)     Conservative
*[[Dan Byles]] 	         Conservative
*[[Barry Gardiner]]      Labour
*[[Ian Lavery]]          Labour
* Dr [[Phillip Lee]]     Conservative
*[[Albert Owen]]         Labour
*[[Christopher Pincher]] Conservative
*[[John Robertson]] 	 Labour
*[[Laura Sandys]] 	 Conservative
* Sir [[Robert Smith]]   Liberal Democrat
* Dr [[Alan Whitehead]]  Labour

==Potential conflicts of interest==
No sooner had Yeo been replaced by Lib Dem Sir [[Robert Smith]], it emerged that Smith has shares in Shell and in 2012 had received hospitality from oil company BP. Although declared fully in the official register of members interests, alongside his shareholdings in pharmaceuticals firm [[Glaxsmithkline]], life assurance company [[Legal and General]] and mining company [[Rio Tinto]], it raises yet more questions about the role of MPs on powerful select committees who have interests in companies and industries potentially affected by their work, reported the ''Daily Mail''. 

Another member [[Peter Lilley]] earned £47,000 in 2012 as a non-executive director of [[Tethys Petroleum]] Limited and £22,462 advising [[Ferro Alloys Corporation]] Limited on power generation.<ref name="lobbying"/>

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