About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Lindsay Hoyle) represents you, and all of the people who live in Chorley, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Speaker, and MP for Chorley

Entered the House of Commons on 1 May 1997 — General election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @LindsayHoyle_MP
• https://facebook.com/LindsayHoyle4Chorley

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

We don't know whether Lindsay Hoyle campaigned to leave, or stay in the European Union Source: BBC

• Defence
• Health
• Home Department
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Trade and Industry
• Gibraltar
• Official Cars
• Police
• Housing
• Forensic Science Service

Currently held offices

• Chair, House of Commons Commission (since 4 Nov 2019)
• Speaker of the House of Commons (since 4 Nov 2019)

Other offices held in the past

• Chair, Speaker's Conference Committee (19 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Speaker's Conference Committee (19 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (17 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (17 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (17 Dec 2019 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (17 Dec 2019 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Members Estimate Committee ( 4 Nov 2019 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ( 4 Nov 2019 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ( 4 Nov 2019 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission ( 4 Nov 2019 to 17 Dec 2019)
• Chair, Standing Orders Committee ( 1 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Standing Orders Committee ( 1 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Finance Committee (Commons) (30 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs (28 Jun 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs (28 Jun 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Finance Committee (Commons) (20 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs ( 4 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs ( 4 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs ( 4 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chairman of Ways and Means ( 3 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Finance and Services Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs ( 8 Jun 2010 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Panel of Chairs ( 8 Jun 2010 to 3 May 2017)
• Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means ( 8 Jun 2010 to 4 Nov 2019)
• Chairman of Ways and Means ( 8 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee ( 1 Oct 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Business and Enterprise Committee (10 Mar 2008 to 30 Sep 2009)
• Member, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee ( 9 Nov 2007 to 10 Mar 2008)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee (28 Jun 2005 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Catering Committee (28 May 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• Member, Trade & Industry Committee (19 Feb 1998 to 8 Nov 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Den Dover
• George Rodgers
• Constance Monks
• Clifford Kenyon
• Douglas Hacking
• Henry Hibbert
• Balcarres
• Randle Feilden

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Sustainable Communities Bill Committee (4 out of 11)
• Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Promotion of Volunteering Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• British Overseas Territories Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Ukraine 10 Sep 2024

  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

• Justice: Prison Capacity 10 Sep 2024

  I call the shadow Secretary of State.

• Justice: Prison Capacity 10 Sep 2024

  I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

More of Lindsay Hoyle’s recent appearances