About your former Member of Parliament

Paul Keetch is a former MP for Hereford.

What you can do

• Find out more about your MP, including their voting summary and recent speeches.

Profile

Former Liberal Democrat MP for Hereford

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

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — did not stand for re-election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Defence
• Health
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Department
• Iraq
• RAF Continuous Attitude Survey
• Manning Control Points
• Nuclear Weapons
• Army Discipline

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (formerly Quadripartite Committee) ( 7 Oct 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Member, Committee on Arms Export Controls (18 Apr 2008 to 7 Oct 2009)
• Whip ( 6 Mar 2008 to 8 Jan 2009)
• Member, Foreign Affairs Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Defence (26 Jan 2004 to 1 Jun 2005)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Colin Shepherd
• David Gibson-Watt
• James Thomas
• Humphrey Owen
• Samuel Roberts
• Charles Pulley
• William Hewins
• John Arkwright
• Charles Cooke
• William Grenfell
• Joseph Pulley
• Joseph Bailey
• of Loreburn
• Joseph Pulley
• of Loreburn
• Joseph Pulley
• Robert Reid
• George Arbuthnot
• Evan Pateshall
• George Clive
• George Arbuthnot
• Edward Clive
• Chandos Wren-Hoskyns
• George Clive
• John Wyllie
• Richard Baggallay
• George Clive
• Richard Baggallay
• George Clive
• Henry Clifford
• George Clive
• Henry Clifford
• Robert Price
• Henry Clifford
• Robert Price
• Robert Pulsford
• Henry Hobhouse
• Edward Clive
• Daniel Burr
• Edward Clive
• Robert Biddulph
• Edward Clive
• Robert Biddulph
• Eastnor
• Richard Scudamore
• Eastnor
• Richard Scudamore
• Eastnor
• Thomas Symonds
• Richard Scudamore
• Thomas Symonds
• Richard Scudamore
• Thomas Symonds
• Richard Scudamore
• Thomas Symonds
• Richard Scudamore
• Thomas Symonds
• John Scudamore

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill Committee (2 out of 6)

Recent appearances

• Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 4 — "Flood risk management function" 8 Apr 2010

  May I too congratulate the Minister on the successful passage of the Bill? He has done exceedingly well in steering this important Bill through the House. The other place has demonstrated its ability correctly to witness, scrutinise and improve what was already an important Bill. In my constituency-both in the city of Hereford and in Ross-on-Wye-we have seen tremendous floods that have...

• Business of the House: Clause 9 — Rates of alcoholic liquor duties 7 Apr 2010

  May I put on record the fact that it was the Liberal Democrats who established the cider caucus in this Parliament and that it is the Liberal Democrats who have been campaigning to ensure that tax on cider is not increased? The hon. Gentleman should not take this as only a Conservative victory; he should take it as a Conservative and Liberal Democrat victory.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Chagos Islands 6 Apr 2010

  I also congratulate the hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) on raising this issue. Following the hon. Gentleman's important question about consultation, will the Minister say whether the Chairman and Members of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which in this Parliament carried out an inquiry into our overseas territories, were consulted? Again following on from the hon....

More of Paul Keetch’s recent appearances