About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Bill Esterson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Sefton Central, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Sefton Central

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @billesterson.bsky.social
• @Bill_Esterson
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Bill Esterson campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for International Trade
• Department for Transport
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Business and Trade
• Members: Correspondence
• NHS: Protective Clothing
• Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
• Trade Agreements
• Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 2 Dec 2024)
• Chair, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 19 Mar 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee ( 7 Sep 2022 to 18 Oct 2022)
• Member, Professional Qualifications Bill [HL] Committee (12 Jan 2022 to 18 Jan 2022)
• Shadow Minister (Business and Industrial Strategy) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 5 Sep 2023)
• Member, Subsidy Control Bill Committee (20 Oct 2021 to 18 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Minister (International Trade) (18 Oct 2016 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) ( 1 Jul 2016 to 10 Apr 2020)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) (18 Sep 2015 to 30 Jun 2016)
• Member, Treasury Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 26 Oct 2015)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 7 Nov 2011 to 25 Feb 2013)
• Member, Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee) (23 Jun 2011 to 26 Mar 2012)
• Member, Education Committee ( 2 Nov 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 27 Jun 2011)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Automated Vehicles Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Subsidy Control Bill Committee (8 out of 11)
• Professional Qualifications Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Enterprise Bill Committee (8 out of 16)
• Education and Adoption Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
• Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Committee (11 out of 16)
• Care Bill Committee (13 out of 15)
• Deep Sea Mining Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Marine Navigation (No. 2) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Children and Families Bill Committee (16 out of 19)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Wreck Removal Convention Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 10 Jul 2025

  It gives me great pleasure to present our Committee’s first report of this Session, “Gridlock or growth? Avoiding energy planning chaos”. I think it follows on very nicely from the statement we have just heard from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, especially given some of the questions that followed. I thank my Committee colleagues for their diligence and...

• Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 10 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Lady for her question and for her service on the Committee—her contribution is always valuable in our discussions and in the questions we put to our witnesses. She rightly raises nature mitigations, which we looked at in our inquiry. As I mentioned in my statement, we heard that all too often developers do not implement the mitigations that they are required to make. It is...

• Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 10 Jul 2025

  I am also very grateful to my hon. Friend for his contribution. He joined the Committee recently and has grabbed the agenda with both hands, as one of our most assiduous attenders. I think he and the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) match each other on attendance, actually—I do not want to give the wrong impression. He is correct: we need the Government to engage with our...

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