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Richard Graham is a former MP for Gloucester.

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Former Conservative MP for Gloucester

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

• @RichardGrahamUK
• https://facebook.com/richard4gloucester

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Richard Graham campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Work and Pensions
• Home Department
• Department for Education
• HM Treasury
• Department for Work and Pensions
• *No heading*
• Asylum
• Individual Savings Accounts
• Social Security Benefits
• Direct Selling

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill Committee (23 Nov 2022 to 30 Nov 2022)
• Member, Pension Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) Bill Committee (19 Oct 2022 to 26 Oct 2022)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (11 May 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 29 Nov 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Parmjit Dhanda
• Tess Kingham
• Douglas French
• Sally Oppenheim
• Jack Diamond
• Moss Turner-Samuels
• Harold Boyce
• James Horlick
• James Bruton
• Henry Terrell
• Russell Rea
• Charles Monk
• Thomas Robinson
• Charles Monk
• William Wait
• Charles Monk
• William Price
• Charles Monk
• Charles Berkeley
• William Price
• Charles Monk
• Robert Carden
• William Price
• Maurice Berkeley
• Henry Hope
• Maurice Berkeley
• John Philpotts
• Henry Hope
• John Philpotts
• Henry Hope
• Maurice Berkeley
• Henry Hope
• John Philpotts
• Maurice Berkeley
• John Philpotts
• Edward Webb
• John Philpotts
• Edward Webb
• Robert Cooper
• Edward Webb
• Robert Cooper
• Edward Webb
• Robert Cooper
• Edward Webb
• Henry Howard
• Edward Webb
• Henry Howard
• Robert Morris
• Henry Howard
• Robert Morris
• Henry Howard
• Robert Morris
• Henry Howard
• John Pitt

Future MPs in this constituency

• Alex McIntyre

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Environment Bill Committee (21 out of 22)
• Stalking Protection Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Tenant Fees Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Control of Horses Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
• Pensions Bill Committee (10 out of 12)
• Superannuation bill Committee (4 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 23 May 2024

  Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish you and all colleagues who are either standing down voluntarily, or are advised to do so by our constituents, very happy years outside this House. As I come towards the statutory end of six years as chairman of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, I thank our patron Mr Speaker for his support, and all fellow cross-party governors over the years for their help...

• Church Commissioners: Support for People in Gaza 23 May 2024

  My hon. Friend will know that the diocese of Gloucester has been very supportive of those in need—whether asylum seekers, refugees or, indeed, the homeless and rough sleepers in our city of Gloucester. Will he therefore join me in congratulating it on the fact that the planning approval for its first modular housing in Gloucester—with six modular homes—should go through Gloucester City...

• Holocaust Memorial Bill: New Clause 1 - Review of security arrangements 22 May 2024

  Does my hon. Friend accept that there are some of us who feel absolutely as passionately as he and every other colleague in this House about what happened in the Holocaust but who do not believe that this is necessarily the best place to site such a memorial? Does he agree that it is now for their lordships to look really closely at whether the points made by the Father of the House and...

More of Richard Graham’s recent appearances