Chair & Registered Contact
Sir John Hayes
Conservative

Sir John Hayes is the Conservative MP for South Holland and The Deepings, first elected in 1997. Prior to his election, he trained as a teacher before moving into business as a management consultant. Sir John held numerous frontbench roles whilst the Conservatives were in Opposition under Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP. He also served in the Coalition Government under Sir Vince Cable at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and then under Sir Ed Davey MP at The Department of Energy and Climate Change. Sir John continued to hold ministerial positions in Theresa May’s Government, as Minister of State at the Department for Transport. He left this role in early 2018 and was knighted later that year.

Vice Chair
Mr Robert Goodwill
Conservative

Robert Goodwill is the Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby. Since his election in 2005, Robert has held many roles in both opposition and Government. He began as an Opposition Whip in 2006 returning to this role as a Government Whip in the 2010 Coalition Government. Since then he has moved to the Department for Education, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. After he finished university, he returned to the family farm at Malton which his family has farmed since the 1850s. He is also managing director of a cemetery company providing green burials in woodland on the farm.

Vice Chair
Rosie Cooper
Labour

Rosie Cooper joined the Labour Party in 2000 and stood for election to the European Parliament four years later. The following year she was elected as the MP for West Lancashire. She has been active in many Select Committees which she has been a member of during her time in Parliament. She first sat on the European Scrutiny Committee in 2005 and is currently on the Health and Social Care Committee which she was been as member of since 2016.

Vice Chair
Gavin Robinson
Democratic Unionist Party

Gavin Robinson is the Democratic Unionist Party MP for Belfast East and is the DUP Spokesperson for Defence and Home Affairs. Before becoming an MP, he qualified as a lawyer from Queen’s University Belfast and worked as barrister from 2007 – 2011. After this, Gavin was appointed special adviser to the First Minister. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2015.

Vice Chair
Heather Wheeler
Conservative

Vice Chair
Baroness Garden of Frognal
Liberal Democrat

Officer
Fleur Anderson
Labour

Officer
Dame Diana Johnson
Labour

Officer
Mark Pawsey
Conservative

Mark Pawsey is the Conservative MP for Rugby. He was first elected in 2010. He was formerly a PPS in the Department for Defence, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and finally the Department for Work and Pensions. He currently sits on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee and Chairs a number of APPGs.

Officer
Baroness Ludford
Liberal Democrat