Chairs of Select Committees announced

This morning, the Speaker, announced the winners of the ballots for the Chairs of the House of Commons select committees:

• Backbench Business Committee - Ian Mearns
• Business, Innovation & Skills Committee - Iain Wright
• Communities & Local Government Committee - Clive Betts
• Culture, Media & Sport Committee - Jesse Norman
• Defence Committee - Dr Julian Lewis
• Education Committee - Neil Carmichael
• Energy & Climate Change  Committee- Angus Brendan MacNeil
• Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee - Neil Parish
• Environmental Audit Committee - Huw Irranca-Davies
• Foreign Affairs Committee - Crispin Blunt
• Health Committee - Dr Sarah Wollaston
• International Development Committee - Stephen Twigg
• Home Affairs Committee - Keith Vaz
• Justice Committee - Robert Neil
• Northern Ireland Affairs Committee - Laurence Robertson
• Petitions Committee - Helen Jones
• Procedure Committee - Charles Walker
• Public Accounts Committee - Meg Hillier
• Public Administration & Constitutional Affairs Committee - Bernard Jenkin
• Science & Technology Committee - Nicola Blackwood
• Scottish Affairs Committee - Pete Wishart
• Standards Committee - Kevin Barron
• Transport Committee - Louise Ellman
• Treasury Committee - Andrew Tyrie
• Welsh Affairs Committee - David TC Davies
• Women & Equality Committee - Maria Miller
• Work & Pensions Committee - Frank Field