About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Bernard Jenkin) represents you, and all of the people who live in Harwich and North Essex, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex

Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election

Also represented North Essex; Colchester North

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @bernardjenkin
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Bernard Jenkin campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Defence
• Deputy Prime Minister
• Trade and Industry
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Cabinet Office
• Regional Assemblies
• Iraq
• Afghanistan
• Departmental Press: Subscriptions
• Inflation

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Chair, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (since 16 Oct 2024)
• Chair, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (since 16 Oct 2024)
• Chair, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (since 16 Oct 2024)
• Chair, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (since 16 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (14 Oct 2024 to 16 Oct 2024)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (14 Oct 2024 to 16 Oct 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government (22 Jun 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government (22 Jun 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements (22 Sep 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements (22 Sep 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Committee (Commons) (20 May 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Committee (Commons) (20 May 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Liaison Committee (Commons) (20 May 2020 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 25 May 2021)
• Member, Committee of Privileges ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Committee on Standards ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system (13 Feb 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (Joint Committee) (16 May 2018 to 27 Jul 2018)
• Chair, Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (Joint Committee) (16 May 2018 to 27 Jul 2018)
• Member, Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (Joint Committee) (17 Apr 2018 to 16 May 2018)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) ( 6 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (12 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (10 Sep 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (18 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (18 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Chair, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (18 Jun 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Draft Protection of Charities Bill (Joint Committee) ( 6 Nov 2014 to 3 Feb 2015)
• Member, Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Parliamentary Privilege (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (19 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (19 Jul 2010 to 20 May 2020)
• Chair, Public Administration Committee (10 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Chair, Public Administration Committee (10 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Defence Committee (27 Nov 2006 to 6 May 2010)
• Deputy Chair, Conservative Party ( 1 Dec 2005 to 7 Nov 2006)
• Shadow Minister (Energy and Climate Change) (10 May 2005 to 8 Dec 2005)
• Shadow Secretary of State (The Regions) ( 1 Oct 2003 to 10 May 2005)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence ( 1 Sep 2001 to 1 Oct 2003)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (19 Jun 1998 to 1 Sep 2001)
• Opposition Spokesperson (Environment, Transport and the Regions) ( 1 Jan 1998 to 19 Jun 1998)
• Opposition Spokesperson (Constitutional Affairs, Scotland and Wales) ( 1 Jul 1997 to 1 Jul 1998)
• Member, Social Security Committee ( 6 Dec 1993 to 21 Mar 1997)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Health Service Commissioner for England (Complaint Handling) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Gender Equality (International Development) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Hospice Funding 8 Apr 2025

  Was it the Government’s intention to put an additional tax on hospices? Is that exactly what the Government intended to do, or is that an unforeseen consequence?

• Hospice Funding 8 Apr 2025

  I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. We should not just complain about this terrible new tax that is being applied to hospices, but point out to the Minister that the return on taxpayers’ investment in what hospices spend on the dying is very great indeed. If a little bit of the big increase in funding that the NHS received was transferred to hospices, it would pay great...

• Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate 7 Apr 2025

  If the Government’s top priority really is growth, a policy that sets artificial targets to ban products that people want to buy, which are not subsidised, to force them to buy cheap Chinese products that they do not really want, which are subsidised, does not sound like a policy for growth. Incidentally, they also suffer from very high insurance costs and high depreciation costs, and may...

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