The London Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committee of the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

 in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on June 25, 2009, following the establishment of regional select committees for the eight other regions of England

Regions of England

In England, the region is the highest tier of sub-national division used by central Government. Between 1994 and 2011, the nine regions had an administrative role in the implementation of UK Government policy, and as the areas covered by elected bodies...

 in November 2008, and the appointment of 'regional minister

Regional minister

In England, regional ministers were appointed from 2007 on a part-time basis as part of the Government of the United Kingdom. Each minister had other departmental responsibilities, as well as specific responsibilities for one of the English regions...

s' by Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown

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 on his appointment as Prime Minister in June 2007. The committee came into existence on 1 January 2009 and ceased to exist upon the dissolution of Parliament on 12 April 2010.

The purpose of the committee, which was slightly different to the remit of the other regional select committees, was "to examine the Government’s regional policies for London and the Government’s relationship with the Greater London Authority and regional bodies".

Membership

The committee was first appointed by the House of Commons on 14 December 2009, nine months after the appointment of the eight other regional affairs select committees. The committee only contained 5 Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 members and one Independent

Independent (politician)

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 member as opposed to the 9 members from various parties as was agreed in the original regional committee establishment motion of 12 November 2008, as the Conservatives

Conservative Party (UK)

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 and Liberal Democrats refused to nominate any members as a sign of their opposition to the existence of regional committees.

Member		Party	Constituency
	Karen Buck Karen Buck Karen Patricia Buck is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North since 1997, and is a former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport....  MP	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	Regent's Park and Kensington North
	Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983.-Early and personal life:...  MP	Labour	Islington North Islington North (UK Parliament constituency) Islington North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election...
	Clive Efford Clive Efford Clive Stanley Efford is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Eltham since 1997.-Early life:...  MP	Labour	Eltham Eltham (UK Parliament constituency) Eltham is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
	Siobhain McDonagh Siobhain McDonagh Siobhain Ann McDonagh is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden since 1997. She previously served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government, but was fired following comments regarding a leadership contest to replace PM Gordon Brown.She...  MP	Labour	Mitcham and Morden
	Andrew Pelling Andrew Pelling Andrew John Pelling is a British politician. First elected as a Conservative he was an independent Member of Parliament for Croydon Central and on 30 March 2010 announced his intention to contest the seat as an Independent at the 2010 general election, but lost the seat to his former party...  MP	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	Croydon Central Croydon Central (UK Parliament constituency) The comparison is with the notional 2005 result for the new boundaries which made Croydon Central a Labour defence.-Elections in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:- Notes and references :...
	Andy Slaughter MP	Labour	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush

Source: Hansard - 14 December 2009