Round-up of Members Lobby contact changes

Changes to the Members Lobby since October 24

Government appointments (announced on November 2)

• Gavin Williamson (Chief Whip) now SoS Defence, replacing Sir Michael Fallon, who resigned.
• Julian Smith (Dep Chief Whip) now Chief Whip
• Esther McVey - Dep Chief Whip
• Lord Callanan (previously Minister for Aviation, International and Security) was appointed Minister of State for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), replacing Baroness Anelay of St Johns
• Lord Henley was appointed Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, replacing Lord Prior of Brampton
• Lord Duncan of Springbank was appointed a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office and the Northern Ireland Office (having previously been a joint minister at the Scotland Office and the Wales Office)
• Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth was made a joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Wales Office (having previously been a joint minister at the DCLG and the Northern Ireland Office)
• Baroness Sugg was made a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport (having previously been a Government Whip)
• Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE was made a Government Whip

Retirements from the House of Lords

• Baroness Paisley of St George's retired on October 30
• Lord Plumb and Lord Tanlaw retired on November 3

Select Committees

• Privileges
• • Members appointed: Sir Kevin Barron, Douglas Chapman, Christopher Chope, Kate Green, Simon Hart, Bridget Phillipson and John Stevenson

• Standards
• • Members appointed: Douglas Chapman, Christopher Chope, Kate Green, Simon Hart, Bridget Phillipson and John Stevenson

• Administration
• • Members appointed: Sir David Amess, Sir Paul Beresford, Sarah Champion, John Cryer, Michael Fabricant, Colleen Fletcher, Pauline Latham, Jessica Morden, Mary Robinson, Patrick Grady and Mark Tami

• European Scrutiny
• • Members appointed: Sir William Cash, Douglas Chapman, Steve Double, Richard Drax, Marcus Fysh, Kate Green, Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins, Darren Jones, David Jones, Stephen Kinnock, Andrew Lewer, Michael Tomlinson, David Warburton and Dr Philippa Whitford

• Finance
• • Members appointed: Clive Betts, Chris Bryant, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Neil Gray, Lindsay Hoyle, Helen Jones, Stephen McPartland, Mark Menzies, Sir Robert Syms, Mark Tami and William Wragg

• Human Rights (Joint Committee)
• • Members appointed: Fiona Bruce, Karen Buck, Harriet Harman, Jeremy Lefroy, Mark Pritchard and Joanna Cherry

• National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
• • Members appointed: Margaret Beckett, Yvette Cooper, James Gray, Dominic Grieve, Dan Jarvis, Dr Julian Lewis, Angus Brendan MacNeil, Robert Neill, Rachel Reeves, Tom Tugendhat, Stephen Twigg and Theresa Villiers

• Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
• • Members appointed: Dan Carden, Vicky Foxcroft, Patrick Grady, John Lamont, Lee Rowley, Sir Robert Syms and Derek Twigg

• Procedure
• • Member appointed: Nick Smith

• Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
• • Members appointed: Lord Brennan, Lord Campbell of Pittenweem, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, Lord Harris of Haringey, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill, Baroness Henig, Lord King of Bridgwater, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, Lord Powell of Bayswater, Lord Trimble

• Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills (The Committee considers Bills which bring together a number of existing Acts of Parliament on the same subject into one Act without amending the law, although they occasionally contain minor corrections and improvements.)
• • Members appointed: James Cleverly, Mims Davies, Chris Elmore, Patrick Grady, Eddie Hughes, Imran Hussain, Stephen Kerr, Conor McGinn, Amanda Milling, Grahame Morris, Melanie Onn and Julian Sturdy

• Regulatory Reform
• • Members appointed: Bim Afolami, Andrew Bridgen, Douglas Chapman, Julie Elliott, Kirstene Hair, Simon Hoare, Graham P Jones, Helen Jones, Kevan Jones, Conor McGinn, Stephen McPartland, Mark Menzies, Jeremy Quin and Karl Turner

• European Scrutiny
• • Member appointed: Geraint Davies

• Women and Equalities
• • Member discharged: Jared O'Mara

• Lords Communications Committee
• • Baroness Stowell of Beeston and Lord Goodlad replaced Lord Henley and Lord Finkelstein. Lord Gilbert of Panteg was appointed Chairman

• Lords Citizenship and Civic Engagement Committee
• • Baroness Eaton replaced Baroness Stedman-Scott

Other appointments

Lord Dholakia was appointed the Liberal Democrats' Asia envoy on November 7