Geoffrey Cox

Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon

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Geoffrey Cox’s voting in Parliament

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  • Farming 4 Mar 2024

    How does the emphasis about which the Minister is talking square with the sustainable farming incentive activities? They arouse considerable concern in the farming community that it would almost be a better and more paying proposition for them to give up farming altogether under the SFI scheme. Is my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater and West Somerset (Mr Liddell-Grainger), who...
  • Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 12 Dec 2023

    In defending the Bill, which I will attempt, one has to reckon with those who think that it goes too far, or may go too far, and with those who think it goes not far enough. Let me first address those who think that it goes too far, of whom the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) is an example. The Bill is criticised on the basis that it deems Rwanda to be...
  • Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 12 Dec 2023

    Yes, it is. It was changed two or three years later, but in the Nasseri case before the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, their lordships upheld, as a matter of law, the deeming of countries to be safe and within the law. Indeed, they went on to say—Lord Hoffmann being one of them, I think—that while Parliament deemed it such, there were plainly risks if the Home Office did not...

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Conservative MP for Torridge and West Devon

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

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Topics of interest

Geoffrey Cox campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

  • Environment Food and Rural Affairs
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Health
  • Communities and Local Government
  • Trade and Industry
  • Dentistry
  • Secure Training Centres: Restraint Techniques
  • Wind Power: Planning Permission
  • Turbines: Health Hazards
  • Environmental Stewardship Scheme

Other offices held in the past

  • The Attorney-General ( 9 Jul 2018 to 13 Feb 2020)
  • Member, Committee on Standards ( 9 Sep 2015 to 28 Oct 2015)
  • Member, Committee on Standards: Standards Review Sub-Committee (10 Jun 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, Committee of Privileges ( 7 Jan 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, Committee on Standards ( 7 Jan 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, Standards and Privileges Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 7 Jan 2013)
  • Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (11 Dec 2006 to 6 May 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

1. Employment and earnings
Practice at the Bar of England and Wales. All earnings in this capacity prior to 14 June 2023 were received subject to a deduction of 13.5% for the costs of my chambers, and a deduction of 4.5% thereafter. (Updated 02 August 2023)
Payments from the Khan Partnership Solicitors, 48-49 Russell Square, London WC1B 4JP:
14 April 2023, received £23,500 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 17 October 2022 and 11 April 2023. Hours: 20 hrs approx. (Registered 03 May 2023)
1 June 2023, received £10,046.97 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 February 2023 and continuing. Hours: 10 hrs approx. (Registered 19 June 2023)
14 July 2023, received £11,885 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 March 2023 and 21 July 2023. Hours: 10 hrs. (Registered 02 August 2023)
29 December 2023, received £6,000 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 May and 1 July 2023. Hours: 6 hrs approx. (Registered 23 January 2024)
31 January 2024, received £33,000 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 February and 31 July 2023. Hours: 30 hrs approx. (Registered 16 February 2024)
From 28 September 2020 until further notice, Consultant Global Counsel (international legal services) to Withers LLP, 20 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AN. From 1 November 2023, I will receive £293,400 plus VAT annually, to be paid quarterly, in return for an expected commitment of up to 30 hours a month. (Registered 19 October 2020; updated 19 October 2021 and 03 January 2024)
Additional payments from Withers LLP, 20 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7LN:
13 March 2023, received £10,000 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 December 2022 and 28 February 2023. Hours: 10 hrs approx. (Registered 03 April 2023)
31 March 2023, received £11,557.45 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 December 2022 and 28 February 2023. Hours: 11 hrs approx. (Registered 17 April 2023)
14 June 2023, received £55,000 (plus VAT) for legal services provided between 1 October 2022 and 31 January 2023. Hours: 50 hrs approx. (Registered 11 July 2023)
14 September 2023, received £56,988.36 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 May 2023 and 31 July 2023. Hours: 40 hrs approx. (Registered 05 October 2023)
30 November 2023, received £58,826.32 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 June 2023 and 30 November 2023. Hours: 50 hrs approx. (Registered 19 December 2023)
29 December 2023, received £58,826.32 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 May and 29 December 2023. Hours: 50 hrs approx. (Registered 23 January 2024)
Payments from CMS Holborn Asia, Holborn Law LLC, 7 Straights View, Marina One East Tower, #19-01, 018936, Singapore:
14 February 2023, received £13,840 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 20 January and 8 March 2023. Hours: 10 hrs approx. (Registered 08 March 2023)
1 June 2023, received £12,970.68 (no VAT) for legal services provided between 1 February and 31 May 2023. Hours: 12 hrs approx. (Registered 19 June 2023)
14 June 2023, received £100,000 (plus VAT) from Bower Cotton, 34 Ely Place, Holborn, London EC1N 6TD, for legal services provided between 1 April 2022 and 31 May 2023. Hours: 100 hrs. (Registered 11 July 2023)
6. Land and property portfolio: (i) value over £100,000 and/or (ii) giving rental income of over £10,000 a year
Joint ownership of farmland in West Devon: (i) and (ii). (Updated 18 January 2019)
From November 2017, joint ownership of a residential property in London: (i) and (ii). (Registered 15 January 2019; updated 04 April 2019)
7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
Thomas More International Ltd; international law firm. (Registered 05 June 2015)
Thomas More Property Holdings Ltd; property holding company. (Registered 05 June 2015)

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