Agriculture Select Committee
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The Agriculture Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was dissolved in 2001 and replaced by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee following the replacement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Remit
[edit | edit source]The select committee scrutinised the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food[1][2] and the agricultural industry.[3]
Membership
[edit | edit source]After the 1997 United Kingdom general election the committee had the following members:[4]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Luff MP (chair)[5] | Conservative | Mid Worcestershire | |
| David Borrow MP | Labour | South Ribble | |
| David Drew MP | Labour | Stroud | |
| David Curry MP | Conservative | Skipton and Ripon | |
| Alan Hurst MP | Labour | Braintree | |
| Michael Jack MP | Conservative | Fylde | |
| Fiona Jones MP[6] | Labour | Newark | |
| Paul Marsden MP | Labour | Shrewsbury and Atcham | |
| Austin Mitchell MP | Labour | Great Grimsby | |
| Lembit Öpik MP | Lib Dems | Montgomeryshire | |
| Mark Todd MP | Labour | South Derbyshire | |
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