Greg Clark has been returned as chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee in the UK’s House of Commons.
Mr Clark, a former business secretary and universities minister in the Westminster government, had chaired the committee between January 2020 and July 2022, when he stepped down to become secretary of state for levelling-up, housing and communities in the dying days of Boris Johnson’s premiership.
Having returned to the back benches after the installation of Liz Truss as prime minister, the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells was only nominee for the post. The chairmanship of the committee is currently reserved to Conservative MPs.
