Communications Select Committee
Encyclopedia
The Communications Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
with the broad remit to "consider communications". In recent years, the Committee has held inquiries into the Chairmanship of the BBC
, the focus and structure of Government communications with the public and the media, ownership of news media outlets, and the digital television and radio switchovers.
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
with the broad remit to "consider communications". In recent years, the Committee has held inquiries into the Chairmanship of the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, the focus and structure of Government communications with the public and the media, ownership of news media outlets, and the digital television and radio switchovers.
Members
, the members of the committee are as follows:- Lord InglewoodRichard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron InglewoodWilliam Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood MEP DL, usually called Richard Inglewood is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom...
(Chairman) - Lord BraggMelvyn BraggMelvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...
- Lord Clement-Jones
- Baroness DeechRuth Deech, Baroness DeechRuth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is a British academic, lawyer and bioethicist, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority , from 1994 to 2002...
- Baroness FookesJanet Fookes, Baroness FookesJanet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, DBE, DL , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she is a Life Peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 from 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden and Plymouth Drake...
- Lord Gordon of StrathblaneJames Gordon, Baron Gordon of StrathblaneJames Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane CBE is a Scottish businessman and manager.The son of James Gordon and Elsie Riach, he was educated at the St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in classics in 1958...
- Lord Macdonald of Tradeston
- The Lord Bishop of Norwich
- Lord RazzallTim Razzall, Baron RazzallEdward Timothy Razzall, Baron Razzall, CBE is a British Liberal Democrat politician.-Early life:Razzall studied at the University of Oxford in the early 1960s, where he also played cricket for the university in 1964....
- Lord St John of BletsoAnthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of BletsoAnthony Tudor St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso is a British peer, businessman and solicitor. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999, coming second in the ballot of his colleagues as to who among them should remain in...
- Lord SelborneJohn Palmer, 4th Earl of SelborneJohn Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne, GBE, FRS, FIBiol is a British peer and businessman. He is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999....
- Lord SkelmersdaleRoger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron SkelmersdaleRoger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.Lord Skelmersdale succeeded to the peerage in 1973 on the death of Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelsmerdale. He was made a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher's...