Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, formerly the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, is one of the select committees of the British House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which also replaced the Department for National Heritage. The name was changed on 3 July 2017.[1]

Membership

As of September 2020, the membership of the committee is as follows:[2]

	Party	Constituency
Julian Knight MP (Chair)	Conservative	Sollihull
Giles Watling MP	Conservative	Clacton
Kevin Brennan MP	Labour	Cardiff West
Steve Brine MP	Conservative	Winchester
Philip Davies MP	Conservative	Shipley
Julie Elliott MP	Labour	Sunderland Central
Clive Efford MP	Labour	Eltham
John Nicolson MP	Scottish National Party	Ochil and South Perthshire
Damian Green MP	Conservative	Ashford
Alex Davie-Jones MP	Labour	Pontypridd
Damian Hinds MP	Conservative	East Hampshire

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes up to January 2013 are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
9 May 2011		David Cairns MP (Labour)	Inverclyde	→	Vacant			Hansard
19 July 2011	Vacant			→		Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op)	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Hansard
24 October 2011		Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op)	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	→		Steve Rotheram MP (Labour)	Liverpool Walton	Hansard
10 November 2011		Alan Keen MP (Labour Co-op)	Feltham and Heston	→	Vacant			Hansard
12 December 2011	Vacant			→		Gerry Sutcliffe MP (Labour)	Bradford South	Hansard
29 August 2012		Louise Mensch MP (Conservative)	Corby	→	Vacant			Votes and Proceedings
17 September 2012		Tom Watson MP (Labour)	West Bromwich East	→		Ben Bradshaw MP (Labour)	Exeter	Hansard
29 October 2012		Therese Coffey MP (Conservative)	Suffolk Coastal	→		Angie Bray MP (Conservative)	Ealing Central and Acton	Hansard
		Damian Collins MP (Conservative)	Folkestone and Hythe			Conor Burns MP (Conservative)	Bournemouth West
		Vacant				Tracey Crouch MP (Conservative)	Chatham and Aylesford
21 January 2013		Adrian Sanders MP (Liberal Democrat)	Torbay	→		John Leech (politician) MP (Liberal Democrat)	Manchester Withington	Hansard

Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

Chair		Party	Constituency	First elected	Method
	Damian Collins	Conservative	Folkestone and Hythe	19 October 2016	Elected by the House of Commons[3]
	Jesse Norman	Conservative	Hereford and South Herefordshire	17 June 2015	Elected by the House of Commons[4]
	John Whittingdale	Conservative	Maldon (Maldon and East Chelmsford 1997–2010)	11 July 2005	Elected by the Select Committee[5] (and the House of Commons in 2010)
	Gerald Kaufman	Labour	Manchester Gorton	14 July 1997	Elected by the Select Committee[6]
Previously as National Heritage Select Committee
	Gerald Kaufman	Labour	Manchester Gorton	27 April 1992	Elected by the Select Committee

Election results

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes.[7] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.[8]

12 July 2017[9]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Damian Collins	Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes

19 October 2016[10]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Damian Collins	302	56.8
	Helen Grant	230	43.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes		532

17 June 2015[11]
Candidate		1st round		2nd round		3rd round		4th round
Candidate		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jesse Norman	221	36.8	240	40.6	268	47.2	319	60.2
	Graham Stuart	157	26.2	164	27.7	178	31.3	211	39.8
	Damian Green	93	15.5	97	16.4	122	21.5	Eliminated
	Damian Collins	87	14.5	90	15.2	Eliminated
	Jason McCartney	42	7.0	Eliminated
Not redistributed				9	1.5	32	5.3	70	11.7
Valid votes		600		591		568		530

9 June 2010[12]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	John Whittingdale	Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes

References

External links

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[1] "CRole - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 September 2017.

[2] "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-06.

[3] ttps://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news-parliament-2015/chair-elected-october-2016/

[4] ttps://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/committee-chair-election-results.pdf

[5] ttps://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10632/john_whittingdale/maldon

[6] ttps://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmcumeds/292s1/cus101.htm

[7] ttps://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmstords/900/body.htm#122B

[8] ttp://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN04400

[9] ttps://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Select-Committee-Chair-Results-2017.pdf

[10] ttps://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news-parliament-2015/chair-elected-october-2016/

[11] ttps://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/committee-chair-election-results.pdf

[12] ttp://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/chair-elections/Committee-Chair-Results.pdf