Previous Delegation 2013-14
The delegation was appointed by the Prime Minister on 15 January 2013 and includes Members from both Houses. The party distribution reflected the composition of the House of Commons.
Membership of the UK delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is as follows:
Full Member | Party | European political grouping |
Robert Walter MP (Leader) | Con | EDG |
Lord Anderson | Lab | SOC |
Brian Binley MP | Con | EDG |
Christopher Chope MP | Con | EDG |
James Clappison MP | Con | EDG |
Jim Dobbin MP | Lab | SOC |
Earl of Dundee | Con | EDG |
Baroness Eccles | Con | EDG |
Sir Roger Gale MP | Con | EDG |
Mike Hancock MP | Ind | ALDE |
Jim Hood MP | Lab | SOC |
Sir Alan Meale MP | Lab | SOC |
Baroness Nicholson | Lib | ALDE |
Sandra Osborne MP | Lab | SOC |
Lord Prescott | Lab | SOC |
Jim Sheridan MP | Lab | SOC |
Lord Tomlinson | Lab | SOC |
Dame Angela Watkinson | Con | EDG |
Alternate members | Party | European political grouping |
Joe Benton MP | Lab | SOC |
Baroness Buscombe | Con | EDG |
Michael Connarty MP | Lab | SOC |
David Crausby MP | Lab | SOC |
David T C Davies MP | Con | EDG |
Geraint Davies MP | Lab | SOC |
Jeffrey Donaldson MP | DUP | EDG |
Baroness Eaton | Con | EDG |
Jonathan Evans MP | Con | EDG |
Paul Flynn MP | Lab | SOC |
Cheryl Gillan MP | Con | EDG |
Charles Kennedy MP | Lib | ALDE |
Edward Leigh MP | Con | EDG |
Ian Liddell-Grainger MP | Con | EDG |
Robert Neill MP | Con | EDG |
Linda Riordan MP | Lab | SOC |
Virendra Sharma MP | Lab | SOC |
Baroness Wilcox | Con | EDG |
European Political Grouping:
EDG - the Federated Group of Christian Democrats and European Democrats;
SOC - the Socialist Group;
ALDE - the EEP/CD Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.