Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been elected to lead the health select committee of MPs which will scrutinise the government's health policies and the performance of the NHS.
Elected as one of numerous new committee chairs in a secret ballot, Hunt said that he was "honoured" to take up his new role and assured that he would urge the government to press on with developing a cross-party consensus on care funding for elderly people.
Hunt was the longest serving health secretary, with a six-year tenure spanning 2010 to 2016.
He also stood against Boris Johnson during last year's Conservative leadership contest and made it onto the final ballot.
Elsewhere, Tom Tugendhat, Tobias Ellwood and Julian Knight were elected as chairs of the foreign affairs, defence and culture select committees respectively, while ex-cabinet ministers Greg Clark and Karen Bradley were tasked with overseeing the science and procedure committees.
Conservative MPs will chair 17 committees courtesy of their parliamentary majority, with Labour and SNP MPs overseeing a further nine and two respectively.
