The Health and Social Care Select Committee (abbreviated to HSC, HSCC and HSCSC) is a Departmental Select Committee of the British House of Commons, the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its remit is to examine the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its associated agencies and public bodies.
Chairs
Committee chairs include those listed below.
| Name | Start | End | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Winterton | 1 January 1991 | 1 January 1992 | Conservative | Macclesfield | |
| Marion Roe | 1 January 1992 | 21 March 1997 | Conservative | Broxbourne | |
| David Hinchliffe | 14 July 1997 | 11 April 2005 | Labour | Wakefield | |
| Kevin Barron | 18 July 2005 | 6 May 2010 | Labour | Rother Valley | |
| Stephen Dorrell | 10 June 2010 | 4 June 2014 | Conservative | Charnwood | |
| Sarah Wollaston | 18 June 2014 | 6 November 2019 | Conservative | Totnes | |
| Jeremy Hunt | 29 January 2020 | 16 October 2022 | Conservative | South West Surrey | |
| Steve Brine | 2 November 2022 | 30 May 2024 | Conservative | Winchester | |
| Layla Moran | 9 September 2024 | 30 April 2025 | Liberal Democrats | Oxford West and Abingdon | |
| Paulette Hamilton Acting |
30 April 2025 | 13 October 2025 | Labour | Birmingham Erdington | |
| Layla Moran | 13 October 2025 | present | Liberal Democrats | Oxford West and Abingdon | |
Current membership
Membership of the committee is as follows:
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layla Moran MP (Chair) | Liberal Democrats | Oxford West and Abingdon | |
| Paulette Hamilton MP (Vice Chair) | Labour | Birmingham Erdington | |
| Danny Beales MP | Labour | Uxbridge and South Ruislip | |
| Ben Coleman MP | Labour | Chelsea and Fulham | |
| Beccy Cooper MP | Labour | Worthing West | |
| Jen Craft MP | Labour | Thurrock | |
| Josh Fenton-Glynn MP | Labour | Calder Valley | |
| Andrew George MP | Liberal Democrats | St Ives | |
| Alex McIntyre MP | Labour | Gloucester | |
| Joe Robertson MP | Conservative | Isle of Wight East | |
| Greg Stafford MP | Conservative | Farnham and Bordon | |
Changes since 2024
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2025 | Deirdre Costigan MP (Labour) | Ealing Southall | → | Alex McIntyre MP (Labour) | Gloucester | Hansard | ||
2019-2024 Parliament
The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Hunt MP (Chair) | Conservative | South West Surrey | |
| Paul Bristow MP | Conservative | Peterborough | |
| Amy Callaghan MP | SNP | East Dunbartonshire | |
| Rosie Cooper MP | Labour | West Lancashire | |
| James Davies MP | Conservative | Vale of Clwyd | |
| Luke Evans MP | Conservative | Bosworth | |
| James Murray MP | Labour | Ealing North | |
| Taiwo Owatemi MP | Labour | Coventry North West | |
| Sarah Owen MP | Labour | Luton North | |
| Dean Russell MP | Conservative | Watford | |
| Laura Trott MP | Conservative | Sevenoaks | |
Changes 2019-2024
2017-2019 Parliament
Sarah Wollaston was re-elected as Chair on 12 July 2017, with other members elected on 11 September 2017 as follows:
Changes 2017-2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2018 | Dr Caroline Johnson MP (Conservative) | Sleaford and North Hykeham | → | Derek Thomas MP (Conservative) | St Ives | Hansard | ||
| Maggie Throup MP (Conservative) | Erewash | Martin Vickers MP (Conservative) | Cleethorpes | |||||
| 14 January 2018 | Dr Lisa Cameron MP (SNP) | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | → | Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) | Central Ayrshire | Hansard | ||
| 13 May 2019 | Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) | Central Ayrshire | → | Angela Crawley MP (SNP) | Lanark and Hamilton East | Hansard | ||
| 15 July 2019 | Martin Vickers MP (Conservative) | Cleethorpes | → | Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative) | Newton Abbot | Hansard | ||
2015-2017 Parliament
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015.
Changes 2015-2017
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2015 | Rachael Maskell MP (Labour and Co-op) | York Central | → | Ben Bradshaw MP (Labour) | Exeter | Hansard | ||
| Liz McInnes MP (Labour) | Heywood and Middleton | Julie Cooper MP (Labour) | Burnley | |||||
| Emily Thornberry MP (Labour) | Islington South and Finsbury | Emma Reynolds MP (Labour) | Wolverhampton North East | |||||
| 31 October 2016 | Julie Cooper MP (Labour) | Burnley | → | Heidi Alexander MP (Labour) | Lewisham East | Hansard | ||
| Emma Reynolds MP (Labour) | Wolverhampton North East | Luciana Berger MP (Labour and Co-op) | Liverpool Wavertree | |||||
| Paula Sherriff MP (Labour) | Dewsbury | Rosie Cooper MP (Labour) | West Lancashire | |||||
| Andrew Percy MP (Conservative) | Brigg and Goole | Andrew Selous MP (Conservative) | South West Bedfordshire | |||||
2010-2015 Parliament
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010.
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Dorrell MP (Chair) | Conservative | Charnwood | |
| Rosie Cooper MP | Labour | West Lancashire | |
| Nadine Dorries MP | Conservative | Mid Bedfordshire | |
| Andrew George MP | Liberal Democrats | St Ives | |
| Fiona Mactaggart MP | Labour | Slough | |
| Grahame Morris MP | Labour | Easington | |
| Virendra Sharma MP | Labour | Ealing Southall | |
| Chris Skidmore MP | Conservative | Kingswood | |
| David Tredinnick MP | Conservative | Bosworth | |
| Valerie Vaz MP | Labour | Walsall South | |
| Dr Sarah Wollaston MP | Conservative | Totnes | |
Changes 2010-2015
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2010 | Fiona Mactaggart MP (Labour) | Slough | → | Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour) | Makerfield | Hansard | ||
| 27 June 2011 | Nadine Dorries MP (Conservative) | Mid Bedfordshire | → | Dr Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Hansard | ||
| 24 October 2011 | Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour) | Makerfield | → | Barbara Keeley MP (Labour) | Worsley and Eccles South | Hansard | ||
| 29 October 2012 | Dr Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | → | Andrew Percy MP (Conservative) | Brigg and Goole | Hansard | ||
| 17 June 2013 | Chris Skidmore MP (Conservative) | Kingswood | → | Charlotte Leslie MP (Conservative) | Bristol North West | Hansard | ||
| 4 June 2014 | Stephen Dorrell MP (Chair, Conservative) | Charnwood | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
| 4 June 2014 | Vacant | → | Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Chair, Conservative) | Totnes | Hansard | |||
| Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Conservative) | Totnes | Vacant | ||||||
| 7 July 2014 | Vacant | → | Robert Jenrick MP (Chair, Conservative) | Newark | Hansard | |||
Inquiries
The Committee regularly initiates inquiries into government and the policies of DHSC's agencies and public bodies, such as NHS England. The Committees' power to hold an inquiry is a core function of a Departmental Select Committee.
2019 to 2024
- Management of the Coronavirus Outbreak, opened 3 March 2020 (completed)
- Pre-appointment hearing for the role of Chair of NICE, opened 4 March 2020 (completed)
- Social care: funding and workforce, opened 10 March 2020 (completed)
- Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond, opened 22 April 2020 (completed)
- Safety of maternity services in England, opened 24 July 2020 (completed)
- Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care, opened 30 July 2020 (ongoing)
- Coronavirus: lessons learnt, opened 6 October 2020 (ongoing), joint-inquiry with the Science and Technology Committee
- Coronavirus: recent developments, opened 7 January 2021 (ongoing)
- Children and young people's mental health, opened 29 January 2021 (ongoing)
- Treatment of autistic people and individuals with learning disabilities, opened 3 February 2021 (ongoing)
- Department's White Paper on health and social care, opened 25 February 2021 (ongoing)
- Supporting those with dementia and their carers, opened 12 May 2021 (ongoing)
- Cancer services, opened 6 July 2021 (ongoing)
- General Practice Data for Planning and Research, opened 15 July 2021 (ongoing)
- Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic, opened 20 July 2021 (ongoing)
- NHS litigation reform, opened 22 September 2021 (ongoing)
- The future of General Practice, opened 15 November 2021
- Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care, opened 23 November 2021
- The impact of body image on mental and physical health, opened 1 December 2021
- Integrated Care Systems: autonomy and accountability, opened 6 July 2022
- Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review follow up one-off session, opened 1 September 2022
2017–2019
- Alcohol minimum unit pricing
- Antimicrobial resistance inquiry
- Availability of Orkambi on the NHS
- Brexit – medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin
- Budget and NHS long-term plan
- Calls for cases of GP visa issues
- Care Quality Commission
- Care Quality Commission's State of Care Report 2018-19
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Childhood obesity
- Childhood obesity follow-up 2019
- Dentistry Services
- Drugs policy
- Drugs policy: medicinal cannabis
- First 1000 days of life
- Government’s review of NHS overseas visitor charging
- Harding Review of health and social care workforce
- Impact of a no deal Brexit on health and social care
- Impact of the Brexit withdrawal agreement on health and social care
- Improving air quality
- Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems inquiry
- Kark Report
- Long term funding of adult social care
- Long-term Sustainability of the NHS
- Memorandum of understanding on data-sharing
- National Audit Office's Report on Investigation into pre-school vaccination
- NHS Capital
- NHS funding
- NHS Long-term Plan: legislative proposals
- NMC and Furness General Hospital
- Nursing workforce
- Patient safety and gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare
- Pre-Appointment hearing for Chair of National Health Service Improvement
- Pre-Appointment hearing for Chair of NHS England
- Prison healthcare
- Sexual health
- Suicide prevention: follow-up
- Transforming children and young people's mental health provision
- Work of NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Work of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
2015–2019
- Appointment of Chair of Food Standards Agency hearing
- Brexit and health and social care
- Care Quality Commission accountability
- Childhood obesity
- Childhood obesity: follow-up
- Children and young people's mental health - role of education inquiry
- Current issues in NHS England inquiry
- Department of Health and NHS finances inquiry
- Establishment and work of NHS Improvement inquiry
- Impact of membership of the EU on health policy in the UK
- Impact of the Spending Review on health and social care
- Improving air quality
- Maternity services
- Meningitis B vaccine
- NHS England current issues
- Planning for winter pressure in accident and emergency departments
- Pre-appointment hearing for CQC Chair
- Pre-appointment hearing: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- Primary care
- Professional Standards Authority
- Public health post-2013 - structures, organisation, funding and delivery
- Suicide prevention
- Sustainability and Transformation Plans
- Work of the Secretary of State for Health
2010–2015
- 2013 accountability hearing with Monitor
- 2013 accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission
- 2013 accountability hearing with the General Medical Council
- 2013 accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- 2014 accountability hearing with Monitor
- 2014 accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission
- 2015 accountability hearing with the General Dental Council
- 2015 accountability hearing with the General Medical Council
- 2015 accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Accident and emergency services
- Accountability hearing with Monitor (2012)
- Accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission (2012)
- Accountability hearing with the General Medical Council (2012)
- Accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2012)
- Annual accountability hearing with Monitor
- Annual accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission
- Annual accountability hearing with the General Medical Council
- Annual accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Care Quality Commission
- Children's and adolescent mental health and CAMHS
- Children's oral health
- Commissioning
- Complaints and Litigation
- Complaints and raising concerns
- Ebola virus
- Education, training and workforce planning
- Emergency services and emergency care
- End of Life Care
- Follow-up inquiry into Commissioning
- Follow-up: Social Care inquiry
- Government's Alcohol Strategy
- Handling of NHS patient data
- Health and Care Professions Council
- Implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Integrated Care Pioneers
- Management of long-term conditions
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- Nursing
- PPIP breast implants and regulation of cosmetic interventions
- Post-legislative scrutiny of the Mental Health Act 2007
- Pre-appointment hearing for Chair of NICE
- Pre-appointment hearing for Chair of the Care Quality Commission
- Pre-appointment hearing for Chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA)
- Pre-appointment hearing for Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board
- Pre-appointment hearing for the Chair of Monitor
- Professional responsibility of Healthcare practitioners
- Professional Standards Authority work inquiry, Professional Standards Authority evidence
- Public Expenditure
- Public Expenditure 2
- Public expenditure on health and care services
- Public expenditure on health and social care
- Public expenditure on health and social care
- Public Health
- Public Health England
- Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
- Report of the NHS Future Forum
- Responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Health
- Revalidation of Doctors
- Social Care
- The impact of physical activity and diet on health
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Work of NHS England
- Work of NICE
