On Thursday 11 June 2026, the Parliament agreed Parliamentary Bureau Motion S7M-00346 on the membership of committees. This short blog sets out the membership of the committees of the Session 7 Parliament.
How many committees are there?
A previous SPICe blog explained that there are 16 committees this Session and provided details on their remits.
What is the party balance of each committee?
The graphic below shows the committees, their size, the party of the Convener and Deputy Convener and the parties of the other members of each committee.
Who are the members of each committee?
The names of all members of the Committee can be found in motion S7M-00346 and on the Parliament’s committee webpages. The membership of each committee is also listed below.
Committee | Full membership and party |
Climate Action Committee | Stuart McMillan (Convener, SNP) Claire Baker (Lab) David Barratt (SNP) Ariane Burgess (Green) Martyn Day (SNP) Sanne Dijkstra-Downie (Lib Dem) Douglas Lumsden (Con) |
Criminal Justice Committee | Alyn Smith (Convener, SNP) Amanda Bland (Reform) Maggie Chapman (Green) Stephen Kerr (Con) David Linden (SNP) Marie McNair (SNP) Pauline McNeill (Lab) |
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee | Calum Kerr (Convener, SNP) Amanda Lindsay (Reform) Q Manivannan (Green) Colm Merrick (SNP) Paul Sweeney (Lab) |
Economy, Tourism and Energy Committee | Duncan Massey (Convener, Reform) Gary Bouse (SNP) Kate Campbell (SNP) Martyn Day (SNP) Rachael Hamilton (Con) Daniel Johnson (Lab) Kristopher Leask (Green) |
Education and Gaelic Committee | Karen Adam (Convener, SNP) George Adam (SNP) Duncan Dunlop (Lib Dem) Patricia Gibson (SNP) Laura Moodie (Green) Angela Ross (Reform) Katherine Sangster (Lab) |
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee | Katie Hagmann (Convener, SNP) Holly Bruce (Green) Meghan Gallacher (Con) Amanda Lindsay (Reform) Fulton MacGregor (SNP) Carol Mochan (Lab) Collette Stevenson (SNP) |
Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee | Patrick Harvie (Convener, Green) Colin Beattie (SNP) Senga Beresford (Reform) Keith Brown (SNP) David Green (Lib Dem) Pauline Stafford (SNP) Jenny Young (Lab) |
Finance and Public Administration Committee | Clare Haughey (Convener, SNP) Alan Brown (SNP) Liam Kerr (Con) Michael Marra (Lab) Liam McArthur (Lib Dem) Kim Schmulian (Reform) Pauline Stafford (SNP) |
Health, Care and Sport Committee | Helen McDade (Convener, Reform) Heather Anderson (SNP) Adam Harley (Lib Dem) Kayleigh Kinross-O’Neill (Green) Joe Long (Lab) Paul McLennan (SNP) Jack Middleton (SNP) |
Public Audit Committee | Neil Bibby (Convener, Lab) Dawn Black (SNP) Miles Briggs (Con) Alan Brown (SNP) David Kirkwood (Reform) |
Public Petitions Committee | Paul Sweeney (Convener, Labour) Julie MacDougall (Reform) Cara McKee (Green) Marie McNair (SNP) David Torrance (SNP) |
Public Service Reform Committee | Bob Doris (Convener, SNP) Max Bannerman (Reform) Michelle Campbell (SNP) Joe Fagan (Lab) Murdo Fraser (Con) Alex Kerr (SNP) Lorna Slater (Green) |
Rural Affairs Committee | Mark Ruskell (Convener, Green) Andrew Baxter (Lib Dem) Dawn Black (SNP) Finlay Carson (Con) Jamie Langan (Reform) Laura Mitchell (SNP) Emma Roddick (SNP) |
Social Justice, Housing and Local Government Committee | Craig Hoy (Convener, Con) Steven Bonnar (SNP) Gary Bouse (SNP) Kate Campbell (SNP) Mark Griffin (Lab) Thomas Kerr (Reform) Morven-May MacCallum (Lib Dem) |
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee | Jenni Minto (Convener, SNP) Jackie Baillie (Lab) Tim Eagle (Con) David Linden (SNP) Mark Simpson (Reform) |
Transport Committee | Willie Rennie (Convener, Lib Dem) Iris Duane (Green) Zen Ghani (SNP) Donald MacKinnon (Lab) Lloyd Melville (SNP) Collette Stevenson (SNP) Graham Simpson (Reform) |
What happens next?
Although the party of the Deputy Convener has been decided by the Parliament (see a previous SPICe blog ‘Scottish Parliament Committees’), the individual member who will hold the position will be decided at the first meeting of each committee.
Future meetings of committees will be available in the Business Bulletin. Three committees (Transport, Criminal Justice and Finance and Public Administration) are due to meet on Wednesday 17 June 2026.
The Parliament will be in summer recess from 27 June 2026 to 30 August 2026. As such, it is expected that most committees will meet once prior to summer recess.
Sarah McKay, SPICe research