The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, formerly the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, is one of the select committees of the British House of Commons, established in 1997. It oversees the operations of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport which replaced the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which also replaced the Department for National Heritage. The name was last changed on 3 July 2017.^[1]

Membership

As of 21 April 2022, the membership of the committee is as follows:^[2]

	Party	Constituency
Julian Knight MP (Chair)	Conservative	Sollihull
Kevin Brennan MP	Labour	Cardiff West
Steve Brine MP	Conservative	Winchester
Clive Efford MP	Labour	Eltham
Julie Elliott MP	Labour	Sunderland Central
Rt Hon Damian Green MP	Conservative	Ashford
Dr Rupa Huq MP	Labour	Ealing Central and Acton
Simon Jupp MP	Conservative	East Devon
John Nicolson MP	Scottish National Party	Ochil and South Perthshire
Jane Stevenson MP	Conservative	Wolverhampton North East
Giles Watling MP	Conservative	Clacton

Changes since 2019

Date		Constituency	→		Constituency	Source
11 May 2020	Jo Stevens MP (Labour)	Cardiff Central	→	Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour)	Pontypridd	Hansard
9 November 2020	Philip Davies MP (Conservative)	Shipley	→	Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative)	South Derbyshire	Hansard
19 October 2021	Damian Hinds MP (Conservative)	East Hampshire	→	Simon Jupp MP (Conservative)	East Devon	Hansard
19 October 2021	Heather Wheeler MP (Conservative)	South Derbyshire	→	Jane Stevenson MP (Conservative)	Wolverhampton North East	Hansard
7 March 2022	Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour)	Pontypridd	→	Dr Rupa Huq MP (Labour)	Ealing Central and Acton	Hansard

2017-2019 Parliament

The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.^[3]^[4]

	Party	Constituency
Damian Collins MP (Chair)	Conservative	Folkestone and Hythe
Julie Elliott MP	Labour	Sunderland Central
Paul Farrelly MP	Labour	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Simon Hart MP	Conservative	Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
Julian Knight MP	Conservative	Solihull
Ian Lucas MP	Labour	Wrexham
Christian Matheson MP	Labour	City of Chester
Brendan O'Hara MP	Scottish National Party	Argyll and Bute
Rebecca Pow MP	Conservative	Taunton Deane
Jo Stevens MP	Labour	Cardiff Central
Giles Watling MP	Conservative	Clacton

Changes 2017-2019

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
11 May 2020		Christian Matheson MP (Labour)	City of Chester	→		Clive Efford MP (Labour)	Eltham	Hansard
15 July 2019		Rebecca Pow MP (Conservative)	Taunton Deane	→		Philip Davies MP (Conservative)	Shipley	Hansard

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes up to January 2013 are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
9 May 2011		David Cairns MP (Labour)	Inverclyde	→	Vacant			Hansard
19 July 2011	Vacant			→		Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op)	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Hansard
24 October 2011		Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour Co-op)	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	→		Steve Rotheram MP (Labour)	Liverpool Walton	Hansard
10 November 2011		Alan Keen MP (Labour Co-op)	Feltham and Heston	→	Vacant			Hansard
12 December 2011	Vacant			→		Gerry Sutcliffe MP (Labour)	Bradford South	Hansard
29 August 2012		Louise Mensch MP (Conservative)	Corby	→	Vacant			Votes and Proceedings
17 September 2012		Tom Watson MP (Labour)	West Bromwich East	→		Ben Bradshaw MP (Labour)	Exeter	Hansard
29 October 2012		Therese Coffey MP (Conservative)	Suffolk Coastal	→		Angie Bray MP (Conservative)	Ealing Central and Acton	Hansard
		Damian Collins MP (Conservative)	Folkestone and Hythe			Conor Burns MP (Conservative)	Bournemouth West
		Vacant				Tracey Crouch MP (Conservative)	Chatham and Aylesford
21 January 2013		Adrian Sanders MP (Liberal Democrat)	Torbay	→		John Leech (politician) MP (Liberal Democrat)	Manchester Withington	Hansard

Chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee

Chair		Party	Constituency	First elected	Method
	Julian Knight	Conservative	Solihull	29 January 2020	Elected by the House of Commons^[5]
	Damian Collins	Conservative	Folkestone and Hythe	12 July 2017	Elected by the House of Commons^[6]
Previously as Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
	Damian Collins	Conservative	Folkestone and Hythe	19 October 2016	Elected by the House of Commons^[7]
	Jesse Norman	Conservative	Hereford and South Herefordshire	17 June 2015	Elected by the House of Commons^[8]
	John Whittingdale	Conservative	Maldon (Maldon and East Chelmsford 1997–2010)	11 July 2005	Elected by the Select Committee^[9] (and the House of Commons in 2010)
	Gerald Kaufman	Labour	Manchester Gorton	14 July 1997	Elected by the Select Committee^[10]
Previously as National Heritage Select Committee
	Gerald Kaufman	Labour	Manchester Gorton	27 April 1992	Elected by the Select Committee

Election results

From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes.^[11] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy.^[12]

29 January 2020^[13]
Candidate		1st round
Candidate		Votes	%
	Julian Knight	283	50.8
	Damian Collins	274	49.2
Not redistributed
Valid votes		557

17 June 2015^[8]
Candidate		1st round		2nd round		3rd round		4th round
Candidate		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Jesse Norman	221	36.8	240	40.6	268	47.2	319	60.2
	Graham Stuart	157	26.2	164	27.7	178	31.3	211	39.8
	Damian Green	93	15.5	97	16.4	122	21.5	Eliminated
	Damian Collins	87	14.5	90	15.2	Eliminated
	Jason McCartney	42	7.0	Eliminated
Not redistributed				9	1.5	32	5.3	70	11.7
Valid votes		600		591		568		530