The Committee of Both Kingdoms, (known as the Derby House Committee from early 1648), was a committee set up during the English Civil War by the Parliamentarian faction in association with representatives from the Scottish Covenanters, to oversee the conduct of the War and Foreign Policy. It succeeded the Committee of Safety late in 1643, when an alliance (the Solemn League and Covenant) was concluded with the Covenanters.
The Committee continued to sit until 1648. It was replaced in 1649 by the Council of State.
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