The East of England Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committee of the House of Commons

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 in the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on November 12, 2008, following the appointment of 'regional minister

Regional minister

In England, regional ministers were appointed from 2007 on a part-time basis as part of the Government of the United Kingdom. Each minister had other departmental responsibilities, as well as specific responsibilities for one of the English regions...

s' by Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown

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 on his appointment as Prime Minister in June 2007. The committee came into existence on 1 January 2009 and ceased to exist upon the dissolution of Parliament on 12 April 2010.

The purpose of the Committee was "to examine regional strategies and the work of regional bodies" in the East of England.

Membership

The committee was first appointed on 3 March 2009 by the House of Commons, but only contained 5 Labour

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 members as opposed to the 9 members from various parties as was agreed in the motion of 12 November 2008, due to the Conservatives

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 and Liberal Democrats refusing to nominate any members as a sign of their opposition to the existence of regional committees.

Member		Party	Constituency
	Margaret Moran Margaret Moran Margaret Moran is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was the Member of Parliament for Luton South from 1997 to 2010....  MP (Chair)	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...	Luton South Luton South (UK Parliament constituency) Luton South is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...
	Charles Clarke Charles Clarke Charles Rodway Clarke is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.-Early life:...  MP	Labour	Norwich South
	Dr Ian Gibson Ian Gibson (politician) Ian Gibson is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Norwich North from 1997 to 2009...  MP	Labour	Norwich North
	Patrick Hall Patrick Hall Patrick Hall is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...  MP	Labour	Bedford Bedford (UK Parliament constituency) Bedford is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat was established in its current form in 1997, restoring a centuries old name. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election...
	Tony Wright MP	Labour	Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency) Great Yarmouth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

Source: Parliament website