Ecclesiastical Committee

The Ecclesiastical Committee is a body created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 that comprises 30 members of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its purpose is to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Committee of the General Synod. The Lord Speaker appoints 15 members from the House of Lords, and the Speaker of the House of Commons appoints 15 MPs to serve on the committee. Members are appointed to serve for the duration of a parliament.

Membership

As of 20 March 2019, the membership of the committee is as follows:

House of Commons				House of Lords
MP		Party	Constituency	Lord		Party
	Sir Peter Bottomley	Conservative	Worthing West		Baroness Berridge	Conservative
	Ben Bradshaw	Labour	Exeter		Baroness Butler-Sloss (Chair)	Crossbencher
	Fiona Bruce	Conservative	Congleton		Earl of Cork and Orrery	Crossbencher
	Frank Field	Independent	Birkenhead		Lord Cormack	Conservative
	Kevin Foster	Conservative	Torbay		Lord Elton	Conservative
	Sir Roger Gale	Conservative	North Thanet		Lord Faulkner of Worcester	Labour
	Helen Goodman	Labour	Bishop Auckland		Lord Glenarthur	Conservative
	Dominic Grieve	Conservative	Beaconsfield		Baroness Harris of Richmond	Liberal Democrat
	David Lammy	Labour	Tottenham		Baroness Howarth of Breckland	Crossbencher
	Rachael Maskell	Labour Co-op	York Central		Lord Judd	Labour
	Jonathan Reynolds	Labour Co-op	Stalybridge and Hyde		Lord Lexden	Conservative
	Gavin Robinson	Democratic Unionist	Belfast East		Lord Lisvane	Crossbencher
	Dame Caroline Spelman	Conservative	Meriden		Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	Labour
	Sir Desmond Swayne	Conservative	New Forest West		Baron Plant of Highfield	Labour

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