About the Speaker’s Committee
The Speaker's Committee was established by the same Act of Parliament that created the Electoral Commission.
We are required to submit each year to the Speaker's Committee an estimate of income and expenditure, together with a five-year strategic plan. The Speaker's Committee may then modify these documents before presenting them to the House of Commons.
The reports detailing the Speaker's Committee's activities as well as minutes of meetings are available to view on the Speakers' Committee page on the Parliament website.
Mr John Bercow MP was re-elected as Speaker of the House of Commons on 18 May 2010. The membership of the Speaker's Committee at October 2010:
The Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow
Mr Graham Allen MP (Labour), as Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee
Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP (Liberal Democrat), as Lord President of the Council
Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP Minister of State for Housing and Local Government
Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman MP (Labour)
Mr Gary Streeter MP (Conservative)Mr Sam Gyimah MP (Conservative)
Mrs Naomi Long MP (Alliance)
Ms Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour)
The Secretary to the Speaker's Committee is Mrs Elizabeth Hunt. She may be contacted at the following address:
Secretary to the Speaker's Committee on The Electoral Commission
Committee Office
Millbank
House of Commons
London SW1P 3JA
Neither our Chair nor any other Commission representative are Speaker's Committee members. However, the Chair and Chief Executive may be expected to attend meetings, which usually take place twice a year.
Mr Gary Streeter MP has been appointed by the Speaker to answer questions from MPs about our work.
Answers to written questions and transcripts of oral questions can be found on Hansard via the Parliament website.
Download Mr Viggers' letter to Rob Marris MP in response to written questions 206594, 206595 and 206596, regarding the late reporting of donations to the Commission, and the table of late reported donations by regulated donees for 15 February 2001 - 31 January 2008 (where data is available), produced in response to written questions 221565, 221566, 221567, 221568, 221569, 221570, 221571 and 221572.
Both the letter and the table are also kept at the House of Commons library.
