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Brandon Lewis is a former MP for Great Yarmouth.

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Profile

Former Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth

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

Left the House of Commons on 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @BrandonLewis
• https://facebook.com/BrandonKennethLewis

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Brandon Lewis campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Communities and Local Government
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Health
• Work and Pensions
• Transport
• Departmental Postal Services
• RRS Discovery
• Public Transport: Concessions
• James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Pensions

Other offices held in the past

• The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice ( 6 Sep 2022 to 25 Oct 2022)
• The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (13 Feb 2020 to 7 Jul 2022)
• The Minister of State, Home Department (24 Jul 2019 to 13 Feb 2020)
• Minister without Portfolio ( 9 Jan 2018 to 24 Jul 2019)
• Party Chair, Conservative Party ( 8 Jan 2018 to 24 Jul 2019)
• The Minister for Immigration (11 Jun 2017 to 8 Jan 2018)
• Minister of State (Home Office) (Policing and the Fire Service) (15 Jul 2016 to 11 Jun 2017)
• Minister of State (Communities and Local Government) (15 Jul 2014 to 15 Jul 2016)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (18 Nov 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Communities and Local Government ( 6 Sep 2012 to 15 Jul 2014)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (29 Nov 2010 to 29 Oct 2012)
• Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 3 Dec 2012)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Anthony D Wright
• Michael Carttiss
• Ernest Kinghorn
• Percy Jewson
• Arthur Harbord
• Frank Meyer
• Arthur Harbord
• Arthur Fell
• John Colomb
• James Moorsom
• Henry Tyler
• James Goodson
• Henry Stracey
• Edmund Lacon
• Henry Stracey
• Edmund Lacon
• Adolphus Young
• John Mellor
• Edward Watkin
• William McCullagh
• Charles Rumbold
• Edmund Lacon
• Charles Rumbold
• Joseph Sandars
• Octavius Coope
• Arthur Lennox
• Charles Rumbold
• William Wilshere
• Charles Rumbold
• Thomas Baring
• George Anson
• Charles Rumbold
• Thomas Anson
• William Loftus
• Edmund Lacon
• William Loftus
• Edward Harbord
• Giffin Wilson
• Edward Harbord
• Stephen Lushington
• Edward Harbord
• Stephen Lushington
• Thomas Troubridge
• Thomas Jervis
• Thomas Troubridge
• Thomas Jervis

Future MPs in this constituency

• Rupert Lowe

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Housing and Planning Bill Committee (18 out of 20)
• Enterprise Bill Committee (7 out of 16)
• Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Local Audit and AccountabilityBill Committee (9 out of 9)
• PREVENTION OF SOCIAL HOUSING FRAUD BILL Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Local Government Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Localism Bill Committee (24 out of 24)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Norfolk and Suffolk Broads: Dredging 7 Feb 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of dredging on water levels in the Broads water system.

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Coastal Erosion: Compensation 24 Jan 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will undertake a review of the adequacy of the level of financial support it makes available to people who have lost properties due to coastal erosion.

• Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Horizon IT System 23 Jan 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of failures by the Horizon software on sub-postmasters who (a) found unexplained accounting losses that were not investigated by Post Office Limited (b) made up those losses from their own funds.

More of Brandon Lewis’s recent appearances