About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Caroline Dinenage) represents you, and all of the people who live in Gosport, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Gosport

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @cj_dinenage
• https://facebook.com/Caroline4Gosport

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Caroline Dinenage campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Defence
• Treasury
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Education
• Basic Skills
• Armed Forces: Housing
• Home Education
• Nightclubs: Closures
• Gibraltar: Spain

Currently held offices

• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (since 9 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (since 9 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee ( 9 Sep 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee ( 9 Sep 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill (28 Feb 2024 to 6 Mar 2024)
• Member, Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill Committee (31 Jan 2024 to 7 Feb 2024)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (17 May 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (17 May 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (17 May 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation (17 May 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation (17 May 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Carer’s Leave Bill Committee ( 2 Nov 2022 to 9 Nov 2022)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (20 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Women and Equalities Committee (14 Dec 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 17 Nov 2021)
• Minister of State (13 Feb 2020 to 16 Sep 2021)
• Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) ( 9 Jan 2018 to 13 Feb 2020)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (14 Jun 2017 to 9 Jan 2018)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (17 Jul 2016 to 14 Jun 2017)
• Minister for Equalities (Department for Education) ( 8 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice ( 8 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
• Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee ( 5 Nov 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (27 Feb 2012 to 4 Feb 2013)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Peter Viggers

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Chairman, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (1 out of 8)
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (3 out of 10)
• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Chairman, Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill Committee (2 out of 6)
• Carer’s Leave Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Transport: Driving Tests: Gosport 5 Dec 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Gosport constituency.

• Farming and Inheritance Tax 4 Dec 2024

  My right hon. Friend is making excellent points. Does she agree that there is not only a lack of grasp of detail, but an astounding sense of arrogance—an inability to listen to those who know what they are doing, the farmers, and who have the experience and the expertise? There is just a blank inexplicable unwillingness by this Government to listen to the voices of expertise and of experience.

• Farming and Inheritance Tax 4 Dec 2024

  My right hon. Friend is making excellent points. Does she agree that there is not only a lack of grasp of detail, but an astounding sense of arrogance—an inability to listen to those who know what they are doing, the farmers, and who have the experience and the expertise? There is just a blank inexplicable unwillingness by this Government to listen to the voices of expertise and of experience.

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