Special General Meeting elects Nigel Evans MP as BGIPU Chair
The BGIPU membership attended a Special General Meeting (SGM) on 30 June in the IPU Room chaired by Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger MP (BGIPU Chair a.i.). The key purpose of the SGM was to elect a new BGIPU Chair and fill Executive Committee vacancies for the remainder of 2014/15 following the outcome of the May 2015 General Election.
Below comprised the final list of nominations to fill the vacancies. These nominees were duly elected to the vacancies by the BGIPU membership convening for the purposes of the SGM. The SGM also agreed that Ian Liddell-Grainger MP would be the BGIPU’s nomination to fill the current UK vacancy on the IPU’s Executive Committee to be elected at the next IPU Assembly in October 2015.
OFFICERS
Chair (from Party of Government – 1 MP vacancy)
Nigel Evans MP
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
Conservative Party (4 MP vacancies)
Bob Blackman MP
Conor Burns MP
Mark Pritchard MP
Laurence Robertson MP
Labour Party (3 MP vacancies)
Sarah Champion MP
Seema Malhotra MP
Gavin Shuker MP
Scottish National Party (2 MP vacancies)
Lisa Cameron MP
Stuart Donaldson MP
This SGM outcome confirms the composition of the BGIPU Executive Committee until the Annual General Meeting scheduled for late 2015.
BGIPU Members at the SGM elect Nigel Evans as new Chair
Nominee for UK position on IPU Executive Committee Ian Liddell-Grainger MP meets Afghan counterparts at IPU128
New BGIPU Chair, Nigel Evans MP, then Deputy Speaker, meets delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina in June 2012
