ECC Committee scrapped in favour of new oversight body covering business, energy, and industrial strategy headed by Labour MP Iain Wright
The group of MPs tasked with scrutinising government policy on energy and climate change has been axed, to be replaced by a new committee in line with the revamped Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The change, which was confirmed on Friday, follows Prime Minister Theresa May's move in July to scrap the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) - which the cross-party committee was charged with examining - and join it with the business portfolio to form a new Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
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The move was announced on Twitter late last week, confirming the committee will be officially disbanded on October 17th.
Iain Wright, the Labour MP who has sparked headlines in recent months through the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee's investigations of Sports Direct, is to head up the new BEIS committee as chair.
Wright has spoken in the past on the importance of having a low carbon industrial strategy and on Friday he wrote that he was "determined that energy AND climate change will be front and centre of committee work".
However, other commentators expressed concern that the loss of the ECC committee would reduce parliament's ability to scrutinise government energy and climate change policy.
The changes to select committees will also see the SNP provide a chair for a new committee on international trade, while a Labour MP will chair a select committee on exiting the EU. It is not yet clear whether Angus MacNeil, the SNP MP who has chaired the Energy and Climate Change (ECC) committee since June 2015, will have a seat at the new BEIS committee.
It has also not been confirmed what will happen to the ECC committee's current inquiries, which include investigations into the implications of Brexit on UK energy and climate policy and a look at emerging disruptive innovation in the energy sector.
Previous ECC inquiries have included investigating the future of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the UK and looking at the economics of climate change.
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