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Gillian Keegan is a former MP for Chichester.

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Profile

Former Conservative MP for Chichester

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

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

Social Media

• @GillianKeegan

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• *No heading*
• Courts: Chichester
• Theft: Pets
• Football: Females
• Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs

Other offices held in the past

• The Secretary of State for Education (25 Oct 2022 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) ( 7 Sep 2022 to 25 Oct 2022)
• Member, Down Syndrome Bill Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 26 Jan 2022)
• Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) (16 Sep 2021 to 7 Sep 2022)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (13 Feb 2020 to 16 Sep 2021)
• Member, Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee) (27 Feb 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Standing Orders Committee ( 1 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 3 Dec 2018)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Andrew Tyrie
• Anthony Nelson
• Christopher Chataway
• Walter Loveys
• Lancelot Joynson-Hicks
• John Courtauld
• Charles Rudkin
• William Bird
• Edmund Talbot
• Walter Gordon-Lennox
• March
• Henry Gordon-Lennox
• John Smith
• Humphrey Freeland
• Henry Gordon-Lennox
• John Smith
• Henry Gordon-Lennox
• John Smith
• Henry Gordon-Lennox
• John Smith
• Arthur Lennox
• John Smith
• Arthur Lennox
• John Smith
• Arthur Lennox
• John Smith
• Arthur Lennox
• John Smith
• John Lennox
• John Smith
• William Poyntz
• John Lennox
• William Poyntz
• William Huskisson
• John Lennox
• Charles Lennox
• William Huskisson
• Charles Lennox
• William Huskisson
• George White-Thomas
• James Pre
• George White-Thomas
• Thomas Steele
• George White-Thomas
• Thomas Steele
• George White-Thomas
• Thomas Steele

Future MPs in this constituency

• Jessica Brown-Fuller

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Down Syndrome Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Domestic Abuse Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Relationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory Guidance 16 May 2024

  I would like to address the hon. Lady’s points; I think I made a note of all of them. First, on this being long in the making, I just want us all to be aware of the timeline. This guidance was issued in 2019, and it was made statutory in 2020. Ofsted conducted some work to see how it was bedding in, which gave us some feedback and comment about how more clarity was needed. That was in the...

• Relationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory Guidance 16 May 2024

  I thank the Father of the House, who, as usual, shows true leadership in this area, as in many others. He is absolutely right that there are examples of organisations with material on their websites that we think is inappropriate, because it is teaching contested views as facts, boasting about how many schools they have worked with. Some organisations—I will not name them—have been...

• Relationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory Guidance 16 May 2024

  Part of leadership and showing leadership is also dealing with those things we are not happy with. We are not happy that young children are having access to porn, which is why other measures are also being put in place through the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Of course, it is always possible that children get access to things that they should not see, and they might...

More of Gillian Keegan’s recent appearances