Women and Equalities Committee
UK House of Commons select committee
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The Women and Equalities Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was established following the 2015 general election to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Equalities Office on equalities (sex, age, race, sexual orientation, disability and transgender/gender identity) issues.
The committee has faced criticism for its name, and in 2017, Conservative MP Philip Davies said it should be renamed the "Equalities Committee".[1]
Membership
Membership of the committee is as follows:[2]
Changes since 2024
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2025 | Shivani Raja MP (Conservative) | Leicester East | → | Rebecca Paul MP (Conservative) | Reigate | Hansard | ||
| 27 October 2025 | Kirith Entwistle MP (Labour) | Bolton North East | → | Kevin McKenna MP (Labour) | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Hansard | ||
| 27 October 2025 | Natalie Fleet MP (Labour) | Bolsover | → | Kim Leadbeater MP (Labour) | Spen Valley | Hansard | ||
| 27 October 2025 | Catherine Fookes MP (Labour) | Monmouthshire | → | Nadia Whittome MP (Labour) | Nottingham East | Hansard | ||
| 3 November 2025 | Samantha Niblett MP (Labour) | South Derbyshire | → | Nia Griffith MP (Labour) | Llanelli | Hansard | ||
2019-2024 Parliament
The chair was elected on 27 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.[3][4]
Changes 2019-2024
2017-2019 Parliament
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with members announced on 11 September 2017.[5][6]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Miller MP (Chair) | Conservative | Basingstoke | |
| Angela Crawley MP | SNP | Lanark and Hamilton East | |
| Philip Davies MP | Conservative | Shipley | |
| Rosie Duffield MP | Labour | Canterbury | |
| Kirstene Hair MP | Conservative | Angus | |
| Jared O'Mara MP | Labour | Sheffield Hallam | |
| Jess Phillips MP | Labour | Birmingham Yardley | |
| Gavin Shuker MP | Labour | Luton South | |
| Tulip Siddiq MP | Labour | Hampstead and Kilburn | |
Changes 2017-2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 October 2017 | New seat | → | Eddie Hughes MP (Conservative) | Walsall North | Hansard | |||
| 6 November 2017 | Jared O'Mara MP (Independent) | Sheffield Hallam | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
| 20 November 2017 | Vacant | → | Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour) | Gower | Hansard | |||
| 5 March 2018 | New seat | → | Vicky Ford MP (Conservative) | Chelmsford | Hansard | |||
| 4 June 2018 | Rosie Duffield MP (Labour) | Canterbury | → | Sarah Champion MP (Labour) | Rotherham | Hansard | ||
| Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | |||||
| 11 June 2018 | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | → | Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | Hansard | ||
| 26 November 2018 | Kirstene Hair MP (Conservative) | Angus | → | Anna Soubry MP (Conservative) | Broxtowe | Hansard | ||
| 8 May 2019 | Gavin Shuker MP (Change UK) | Luton South | → | Stephanie Peacock MP (Labour) | Barnsley East | Hansard | ||
2015-2017 Parliament
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members announced on 6 July 2015.[7][8]
Changes 2015-2017
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2015 | Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | → | Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour) | Mitcham and Morden | Hansard | ||
| Cat Smith MP (Labour) | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Gavin Shuker MP (Labour) | Luton South | |||||
| 13 June 2016 | Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour) | Mitcham and Morden | → | Gill Furniss MP (Labour) | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | Hansard | ||
| 5 December 2016 | Gill Furniss MP (Labour) | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | → | Tracy Brabin MP (Labour) | Batley and Spen | Hansard | ||
| 19 December 2016 | Mims Davies MP (Conservative) | Eastleigh | → | Philip Davies MP (Conservative) | Shipley | Hansard | ||
| 23 January 2017 | Jo Churchill MP (Conservative) | Bury St Edmunds | → | Lucy Allan MP (Conservative) | Telford | Hansard | ||
| 28 February 2017 | Ruth Cadbury MP (Labour) | Brentford and Isleworth | → | Holly Lynch MP (Labour) | Halifax | Hansard | ||