About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Wera Hobhouse) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bath, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Bath

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

Social Media

• @werahobhouse.bsky.social
• @Wera_Hobhouse
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Food: Waste
• School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
• Carbon Emissions: Local Government
• Question
• Bus Services

Currently held offices

• Member, Panel of Chairs (since 29 Jan 2025)
• Member, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Great British Energy Bill Committee (11 Sep 2024 to 15 Oct 2024)
• Member, Prison Media Bill Committee (15 May 2024 to 22 May 2024)
• Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill (28 Feb 2024 to 6 Mar 2024)
• Member, Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Restoration and Renewal Programme Board Committee ( 7 Feb 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill Committee (16 Nov 2022 to 23 Nov 2022)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) (11 Jul 2022 to 18 Sep 2024)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change) (11 Jul 2022 to 18 Sep 2024)
• Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons ( 7 Sep 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) ( 7 Sep 2020 to 10 Jul 2022)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Women and Equalities) ( 7 Sep 2020 to 10 Jul 2022)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Energy) ( 6 Jan 2020 to 7 Sep 2020)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) (21 Aug 2019 to 6 Jan 2020)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) ( 7 Feb 2019 to 21 Aug 2019)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Environment and Climate Change) ( 7 Feb 2019 to 7 Sep 2020)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (16 Jun 2017 to 8 Feb 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Ben Howlett
• Don Foster
• Chris Patten
• Edward Brown
• Isaac Pitman
• Thomas Guinness
• Charles Baillie-Hamilton
• Charles Foxcroft
• Frank Raffety
• Charles Foxcroft
• Alexander Thynne
• Charles Hunter
• Alexander Thynne
• George Gooch
• Donald Maclean
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Charles Murray
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Charles Murray
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Charles Murray
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Robert Laurie
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Robert Blaine
• Edmund Wodehouse
• Arthur Hayter
• Nathaniel Bousfield
• Arthur Hayter
• Grey De Wilton
• Chelsea
• William Tite
• Donald Dalrymple
• William Tite
• James McGarel-Hogg
• William Tite
• Arthur Way
• William Tite
• Arthur Elton
• William Tite
• Thomas Phinn
• George Scobell
• Ashley
• Duncan
• John Roebuck
• Duncan
• William Bruges
• John Roebuck
• Charles Palmer
• John Roebuck
• John Thynne
• Charles Palmer
• George Pratt
• John Thynne
• George Pratt
• John Thynne
• Charles Palmer
• John Thynne
• Charles Palmer
• John Thynne
• Charles Palmer
• John Thynne
• Charles Palmer
• John Thynne
• John Palmer
• John Thynne
• John Palmer
• John Thynne

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Great British Energy Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
• Chairman, Data (Use and Access) Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
• Chairman, Planning and Infrastructure Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Prison Media Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 11 Jul 2025

  Breast Cancer Screening (Review) Bill: Second Reading – Wera Hobhouse. Private Members' Bills

• Backbench Business: Cold and Damp Homes — [Matt Western in the Chair] 8 May 2025

  Does the hon. Lady agree with my social housing provider, Curo, that it is impossible for social housing providers to both build the new social and affordable homes that are required and maintain homes to a decent standard?

• Backbench Business: Cold and Damp Homes — [Matt Western in the Chair] 8 May 2025

  It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Western. I congratulate the hon. Member for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) on bringing this important subject to Westminster Hall. The state of our private rental properties is an appalling open secret. One in four private renters live in fuel poverty; 1.6 million children are living in privately rented homes that are damp or mouldy....

More of Wera Hobhouse’s recent appearances