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Culture, Media and Sport Committee

The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, formerly the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, is one of the select committees of the House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for National Heritage.

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The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, formerly the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee,1 is one of the select committees of the House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for National Heritage.

Membership

Members are as follows.2

Member Party Constituency
Caroline Dinenage MP (Chair) Conservative Gosport
Bayo Alaba MP Labour Southend East and Rochford
Vicky Foxcroft MP Labour Lewisham North
Damian Hinds MP Conservative East Hampshire
Rupa Huq MP Labour Ealing Central and Acton
Natasha Irons MP Labour Croydon East
Liz Jarvis MP Liberal Democrats Eastleigh
Anneliese Midgley MP Labour Knowsley
Jo Platt MP Labour Leigh and Atherton
Jeff Smith MP Labour Manchester Withington
Cameron Thomas MP Independenta Tewkesbury

Changes since 2024

Date Outgoing Member
& Party 		Constituency → New Member
& Party 		Constituency Source
9 December 2024 Mims Davies MP (Conservative) East Grinstead and Uckfield → Damian Hinds MP (Conservative) East Hampshire Hansard
27 October 2025 James Frith MP (Labour) Bury North → Vicky Foxcroft MP (Labour) Lewisham North Hansard
Tom Rutland MP (Labour) East Worthing and Shoreham Anneliese Midgley MP (Labour) Knowsley
Paul Waugh MP (Labour) Rochdale Jeff Smith MP (Labour) Manchester Withington
13 November 2025 Zöe Franklin MP (Liberal Democrats) Guildford → Cameron Thomas MP (Independent)a Tewkesbury Hansard

2019-2024 Parliament

The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.34

After the previous Chair Julian Knight recused himself from Parliament, Damian Green was selected as the Acting Chair of the committee.5 He held this role until Dame Caroline Dinenage was elected as the new Chair on 17 May 2023.6

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

Changes 2019-2024

Date Outgoing Member
& Party 		Constituency → New Member
& Party 		Constituency Source
11 May 2020 Jo Stevens MP (Labour) Cardiff Central → Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) Pontypridd Hansard
9 November 2020 Philip Davies MP (Conservative) Shipley → Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) South Derbyshire Hansard
19 October 2021 Damian Hinds MP (Conservative) East Hampshire → Simon Jupp MP (Conservative) East Devon Hansard
Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative) South Derbyshire Jane Stevenson MP (Conservative) Wolverhampton North East
7 March 2022 Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour) Pontypridd → Rupa Huq MP (Labour) Ealing Central and Acton Hansard
24 April 2023 Julian Knight MP (Chair, independent) Solihull → Vacant Hansard
17 May 2023 Vacant → Dame Caroline Dinenage MP (Chair, Conservative) Gosport Hansard
15 January 2024 Kevin Brennan MP (Labour) Cardiff West → Alex Sobel MP (Labour) Leeds North West Hansard

Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

Chair Party Constituency First elected Method
Dame Caroline Dinenage Conservative Gosport 17 May 2023 Elected by the House of Commons7
As Digitial, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
Julian Knight Conservative/Independent Solihull 29 January 2020 Elected by the House of Commons8
Damian Collins Conservative Folkestone and Hythe 12 July 2017 Elected by the House of Commons9
As Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
Damian Collins Conservative Folkestone and Hythe 19 October 2016 Elected by the House of Commons10
Jesse Norman Conservative Hereford and South Herefordshire 17 June 2015 Elected by the House of Commons11
John Whittingdale Conservative Maldon
(Maldon and East Chelmsford 1997–2010) 		11 July 2005 Elected by the Select Committee12
(and the House of Commons in 2010)
Gerald Kaufman Labour Manchester Gorton 14 July 1997 Elected by the Select Committee13
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.14 Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.15

9 September 202416
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Dame Caroline Dinenage Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes
17 May 202317
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Dame Caroline Dinenage 198 51.7
Damian Collins 100 26.1
Damian Green 85 22.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes 383
29 January 202018
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Julian Knight 283 50.8
Damian Collins 274 49.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes 557
12 July 201719
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Damian Collins Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes
19 October 201610
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
Damian Collins 302 56.8
Helen Grant 230 43.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes 532
17 June 201511
Candidate 1st round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round
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 201020
Candidate 1st round
Votes %
John Whittingdale Unopposed
Not redistributed
Valid votes
See also

See also

Notes

Notes

  1. Suspended from Liberal Democrats.
References

References

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