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Business and Trade Select Committee

The Business and Trade Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Business and Trade, and any departmental bodies.

Membership
Members are as follows: Changes since 2024 == 2019–2024 Parliament ==
2019–2024 Parliament
The chair was elected on 27 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020. Changes 2019–2024 ==2017–2019==
2017–2019
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017. Changes 2017–2019 ==Previous changes==
Previous changes
Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of the select committee, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below. == Notable reports ==
Notable reports
In July 2022, the committee published its report "Energy pricing and the future of the energy market" which examined the turmoil in retail energy arising from unusually high wholesale gas prices, leading to the collapse of several suppliers and the need for government support of Bulb Energy. The committee found that the industry regulator Ofgem had been incompetent in its supervision of the finances of supplier companies, and that the government overlooked this lack of supervision because it prioritised competition over market regulation. The report also criticised Ofgem's design of the energy price cap, recommending that the government consider introducing a social tariff; stated that the government's May 2022 support package for customers was no longer sufficient; and criticised the absence of a home insulation programme. In response, Ofgem accepted that its previous financial resilience regime was not sufficiently robust, and had contributed to some of the supplier failures since August 2021. ==References==
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