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Bob Stewart is a former MP for Beckenham.

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Profile

Former Conservative MP for Beckenham

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

• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Bob Stewart campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Health
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Education
• Home Department
• Syria
• Iran: Tanks
• Germany
• Leasehold
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Politics and Government

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill Committee (26 Oct 2022 to 2 Nov 2022)
• Member, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (16 Sep 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (11 May 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (16 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (21 Nov 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 8 Sep 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 6 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (12 Jul 2010 to 3 Nov 2014)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (12 Jul 2010 to 3 Nov 2014)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (12 Jul 2010 to 3 Nov 2014)
• Member, Defence Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Jacqui Lait
• Piers Merchant
• Philip Goodhart
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Overseas Electors Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill Committee (6 out of 32)
• Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Valedictory Debate 24 May 2024

  I am very sorry to have to follow such a speech, and I feel sympathy. It has been a real privilege for me to be here. Fourteen years have gone like a flash. In my 28 years in the Army, I never thought for a moment that I would come to this place. After all, most of the rank and file in the Army view politicians with deep suspicion. When, a few years after I had left the Army, I told my Army...

• Valedictory Debate 24 May 2024

  I was driving through Harlow one day, and to my shock, I suddenly saw my right hon. Friend sitting by the dual carriageway under a bloody great big sign reading “Vote Halfon”. You could not miss him, and I thought, “My God, there’s someone who knows how to campaign.”

• War Graves Week 14 May 2024

  In late June and early July 1943, the allies in north Africa were preparing to invade Sicily, which would be the first piece of territory in Europe to be taken back from Nazi Germany. In 2nd Battalion the Cheshire Regiment, in the 50th Infantry Division, there were two good friends: Lieutenant David Cox, an Oxbridge graduate aged 23; and Peter Martin, then a Captain commanding A Company. One...

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