Select Committee membership
The last Standing Orders review stated:
We propose instead that the Business Committee adopt a target of 96 seats across the 12 subject select committees. …
In order to ensure the seats are distributed proportionally, we recommend that at the start of each Parliament the Clerk of the House calculate each party’s proportional allocation of the 96 seats based on its seats in the House and using the Saint-Laguë method of proportionality—as used in our electoral system—and inform parties of their allocations as soon as practicable. The Business Committee can then negotiate and agree upon any changes to the overall number of seats and the associated impact on proportionality.
So what is the proportional allocation of the recommended 96 seats:
- National 45
- Labour 37
- NZ First 7
- Greens 6
- ACT 1
It will be very interesting to see how many select committees the Government gets a majority on.