It is chaired by the party president, currently Mark Pack, and includes members of the party-at-large elected every three years in an all-member ballot, as well as representatives from the state parties, MPs, peers, MEPs, and councillors.
From November 2022, it was re-constituted, with a Federal Council added to provide scrutiny to a smaller sized board.
In November 2015, the election of Lord Rennard by members of the House of Lords as the Peer Representative to the committee caused a "backlash" from party members, due to public accusations of sexual harassment that had been made against the peer.
The complaints triggered a petition calling for a special conference to debate the issue,[2] and resulted in Rennard stepping down from the body shortly afterwards.
Following her resignation from the party, Onstad was replaced by Callum Robertson who won the recounted vote.