House of Commons Health Select Committee

The Health Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure, of the Department of Health and its associated bodies. 
House of Commons Commons Select Committee: Health Committee,accessed 3 November 2010. 
==Membership==
====2015====
Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative | Rosie Cooper, Labour | Andrew George, Conservative | Robert Jenrick, Conservative | Barbara Keeley, Labour | Charlotte Leslie, Conservative | Grahame M. Morris, Labour | Andrew Percy | Viendra Sharma | David Tredinnick, Conservative | Valerie Vaz, Labour Health Committee www.parliament.uk, accessed 8 April 2015 Ben Bradshaw, Labour | Julie Cooper, Labour | Emma Reynolds, Labour Dods people, 'Arrivals, moves, departures', Civil Service World, accessed 3 November 2015
====2010====
On 9 June 2010 Stephen Dorrell MP was elected Chair of the Health Committee. Ten more members were appointed on 12 July. On 2 November Fiona Mactaggart was discharged from the Committee and Fiona Fovargue appointed. House of Commons, Health Committee – membership, accessed 4 November 2010. 
*Stephen Dorrell (Chair) 	Conservative
*Rosie Cooper 	Labour
*Nadine Dorries 	Conservative
*Yvonne Fovargue	Labour
*Andrew George	Liberal Democrat
*Grahame Morris 	Labour
*Virendra Sharma 	Labour
*Chris Skidmore	Conservative
*David Tredinnick	Conservative
*Valerie Vaz	Labour
*Dr Sarah Wollaston Conservative
==Obesity Inquiry==
In 2003-2004 a Health Select committee was established to undertake an inquiry into obesity.
The MPs sitting on the committee at that time were:
* David Hinchliffe MP (Labour, Wakefield) (Chairman)
* David Amess MP (Conservative, Southend West)Patron of The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust
* John Austin MP (Labour, Erith and Thamesmead) Patron of The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust 
* Keith Bradley MP (Labour, Manchester Withington)
* Simon Burns MP (Conservative, Chelmsford West)
* Paul Burstow MP (Liberal Democrat, Sutton and Cheam)
* Jim Dowd MP (Labour, Lewisham West) Patron ofThe Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust
* Jon Owen Jones MP (Labour, Cardiff Central)
* Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour, Mitcham and Morden)
* Dr Doug Naysmith MP (Labour, Bristol North West)
* Dr Richard Taylor MP (Independent, Wyre Forest)
* Andy Burnham MP (Labour, Leigh)
* Julia Drown MP (Labour, South Swindon)
* Sandra Gidley MP (Liberal Democrat, Romsey) Patron of The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust
=== Special Advisers ===
The special advisers to the inquiry on obesity were:
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmhealth/23/23.pdf House of Commons Health Committee Third Report Session 2003-2004, 27 May 2004,accessed 4 December 2007 
* Dr Laurel Devina Edmunds, Senior Researcher for the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, University of Bristol. Director of The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust
* Professor Ken Fox, Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Bristol. Scientific Governor and Trustee of the British Nutrition Foundation. Member of Department of Health Scientific Advisory Panel for Social Marketing in Childhood Obesity Project, 2006-7. Senior Scientific Editor of the recent Chief Medical Officer's first report on physical activity and public health. Served for 12 years on the Association for the Study of Obesity Executive Committee. Served on the Foresight Scientific Advisory Panel for Obesity Ken Fox accessed 10 December 2007 Was member of expert group alongside Carolyn Summerbell and Susan Jebb, which in March 2007, produced Department of Health commissioned report on obesity issues. MRD Human Research Nutrition, Cambridge; Department of Health The healthy living social marketing initiative: a review of the evidence 12 March 2007, accessed 12 December 
* Professor Gerard Hastings, former Director, Centre for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Strathclyde. Director of the Institute of Social Marketing, University of Stirling. Has acted as a Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization on tobacco and alcohol marketing. Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during their enquiries into the tobacco and food industries. He provides regular guidance on social and critical marketing to the Scottish, UK and European Parliaments. He has also acted as an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry.
http://www.ism.stir.ac.uk/Gerard_Hastings.htm Institute for Social Marketing accessed 12 December 2007 
* Professor Philip James, Director of the Rowett Research Institute Aberdeen. Chair of the International Obesity TaskforcePrior to the 1997 General Election in the UK, the Labour Party had proposed that a new structure should be developed for the control of food safety and the title “Food Standards Agency “ was used for this concept. On the 7th March 1997, Tony Blair asked Professor Philip James to propose the structure and function of a Food Standards Agency. http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/uk/AGENCY1A.HTM#1 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading Website accessed 10 December 2007 His interim proposals were completed on the 30th April 1997 and were presented to the new Prime Minister on the 8th May http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/james/cont.htm FSA Website accessed 10 December 2007 Professor James was involved in the situation with Dr Arpad Pusztai where it was claimed he "gagged" Dr Pusztai over controversial research into GM. House of Commons House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Minutes 8 March 1999, accessed 12 December 2007 
* Professor Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University since November 2002. He was Director of the Centre for Food Policy at Thames Valley University from 1994 to 2002, before it moved to City University. He was Director of Parents for Safe Food, 1990-1994 and before that Director of the London Food Commission, 1984 to 1990. He is a regular advisor / consultant to the World Health Organization at global and European levels. He has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries (food standards [twice], globalisation and obesity). In 2006-07, he was an advisor to the Foresight Obesity programme, and since 2005 has been a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) ‘Food Supply in the 21st Century’ Working Party and team. In 2005-06, he chaired the Scottish NHS Executive’s Scottish Diet Action Plan Review. In 1999-2005 he was Chair of Sustain, the NGO alliance, of which he was a founder member. He has been a Trustee of Friends of the Earth and was Secretary of the Public Health Alliance, predecessor to the UK Public Health Association. http://www.city.ac.uk/hmfp/foodpolicy/about/timlang.html City University Staff Website accessed 10 December 2007
 
Supplementary research was provided by:
* Liz Powell-Bullock
* Adriana Rodriguez
==Resources==
See: The Corporate Capture of the NHS
*Tamasin Cave, The privatising cabal at the heart of our NHS Spinwatch, 1 April 2015.
==Notes==
Category : Foodspin Government Agencies