The Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee was to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, any associated public bodies and the government office for science.
The committee was dissolved on 30 September 2009 and replaced by the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee following the merging of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills into the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.Hansard - 25 June 2009: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) The committee was officially replaced by the Science and Technology Select Committee, which was re-established on 1 October 2009 and is made up of the same membership as the old Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills select committee.
Membership The membership of the committee at its time of dissolution were:
Member Party Constituency Phil Willis MP, (Chair) Liberal Democrat Harrogate and Knaresborough Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP Labour City of Durham Tim Boswell MP Conservative Daventry Ian Cawsey MP Labour Brigg and Goole Nadine Dorries MP Conservative Mid-Bedfordshire Dr Ian Gibson MP Labour Norwich North Dr Evan Harris MP Liberal Democrat Oxford West and Abingdon Dr Brian Iddon MP Labour Bolton South East Gordon Marsden MP Labour Blackpool South Bob Spink MP Independent Castle Point Ian Stewart MP Labour Eccles Graham Stringer MP Labour Manchester Blackley Dr Desmond Turner MP Labour Brighton Kemptown Rob Wilson MP Conservative Reading East
Source: Parliament Website
See also Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom
References
External links Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee