A total of eight women and three men have been elected by their political parties to take up a place on the powerful committee, which scrutinises issues relating to children and young people.
The gender balance represents a significant turnaround from the membership at the end of the last parliament when there were eight men and three women on the committee.
The only three members who served on the committee in the last parliament are the chair, Conservative MP Neil Carmichael, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton Caroline Nokes, who herself ran for election as chair of the committee, and Labour MP for Gateshead Ian Mearns.
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