Scrutiny of international agreements; Treaties considered on 26 February 2019 Contents

The European Union Committee

The European Union Committee is appointed each session “to scrutinise documents deposited in the House by a Minister, and other matters relating to the European Union”.

In practice this means that the Select Committee, along with its Sub-Committees, scrutinises the UK Government’s policies and actions in respect of the EU; considers and seeks to influence the development of policies and draft laws proposed by the EU institutions; and more generally represents the House of Lords in its dealings with the EU institutions and other Member States.

On 14 January 2019 the Procedure Committee decided that the European Union Committee should, until the end of the 2017–19 session of Parliament, be responsible for scrutinising Brexit-related treaties or international agreements.

The six Sub-Committees are as follows:

Energy and Environment Sub-Committee

External Affairs Sub-Committee

Financial Affairs Sub-Committee

Home Affairs Sub-Committee

Internal Market Sub-Committee

Justice Sub-Committee

Membership

The Members of the European Union Select Committee are:

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top	Earl of Kinnoull	Lord Ricketts
Lord Boswell of Aynho (Chairman)	Lord Liddle	Lord Soley
Baroness Brown of Cambridge	Earl of Lindsay	Baroness Suttie
Lord Cromwell	Baroness Neville-Rolfe	Lord Teverson
Baroness Falkner of Margravine	Baroness Noakes	Baroness Verma
Lord Jay of Ewelme	Lord Polak	Lord Whitty
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws

Further information

Publications, press notices, details of membership, forthcoming meetings and other information is available at http://www.parliament.uk/hleu.

General information about the House of Lords and its Committees is available at
http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords.

Committee staff

The current staff of the Committee are Christopher Johnson (Principal Clerk), Stuart Stoner (Clerk), Roberto Robles (Policy Analyst), Tim Mitchell (Legal Adviser), Alex Horne (Legal Adviser), Samuel Lomas (Committee Assistant) and Alasdair Johnston (Committee Assistant).

Contact details

Contact details for individual Sub-Committees are given on the website. General correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the European Union Committee, Committee Office, House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW. Telephone 020 7219 5791. Email euclords@parliament.uk.

Twitter

You can follow the Committee on Twitter: @LordsEUCom.

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