About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Kemi Badenoch) represents you, and all of the people who live in North West Essex, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for North West Essex

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

Also represented Saffron Walden

• Personal website

Social Media

• @KemiBadenoch

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Home Office
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Transport
• Housing: Construction
• Local Plans
• Local Government: Devolution
• Affordable Housing: Construction
• Planning: Staff

Currently held offices

• Leader of HM Official Opposition (since 2 Nov 2024)
• Leader of the Conservative Party (since 2 Nov 2024)
• Minister for Women and Equalities (since 25 Oct 2022)
• Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (since 16 Sep 2021)
• Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (since 16 Sep 2021)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government ( 9 Jul 2024 to 2 Nov 2024)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ( 9 Jul 2024 to 2 Nov 2024)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, Communities & Local Government ( 8 Jul 2024 to 9 Jul 2024)
• Secretary of State for Business and Trade ( 7 Feb 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• President of the Board of Trade ( 7 Feb 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Minister for Women and Equalities (25 Oct 2022 to 5 Jul 2024)
• The Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade ( 6 Sep 2022 to 7 Feb 2023)
• Member, Local Government (Disqualification) Bill Committee (24 Nov 2021 to 1 Dec 2021)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission ( 4 Nov 2021 to 6 Jul 2022)
• Member, Elections Bill Committee (22 Sep 2021 to 26 Oct 2021)
• Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (jointly with Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) (16 Sep 2021 to 6 Jul 2022)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 Nov 2021)
• Minister for Equalities (14 Feb 2020 to 6 Jul 2022)
• The Exchequer Secretary (13 Feb 2020 to 15 Sep 2021)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (27 Jul 2019 to 13 Feb 2020)
• Vice-Chair, Conservative Party ( 8 Jan 2018 to 27 Jul 2019)
• Member, Standing Orders Committee ( 1 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Justice Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 15 Jul 2019)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Elections Bill Committee (8 out of 12)
• Local Government (Disqualification) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill Committee (9 out of 10)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Prime Minister: Engagements 8 Jan 2025

  The whole House has heard that the Prime Minister lost his brother during the Christmas period, so can I offer him, on behalf of my party, our sincerest condolences? The new year has started with a focus on the decades-long rape gang scandal. Across the country, thousands of girls were tortured and sexually abused at the hands of men who treated them as things to be used and disposed of,...

• Prime Minister: Engagements 8 Jan 2025

  I am shocked that the Prime Minister would say that actions were not taken. He knows full well that we accepted 18 of the 20 recommendations from the Jay inquiry, and went further, launching a gangs taskforce which found 550 more perpetrators. That shows that there is still work to be done. In Rotherham alone, there have been more than 1,400 victims. Across Oldham, Bradford, Bristol, Rochdale...

• Prime Minister: Engagements 8 Jan 2025

  The Prime Minister is being very specific. I have raised this issue: I have raised it in speeches, and I have raised it publicly. The Prime Minister knows that as a Minister I would not have been speaking on this specific issue, because I was not a Home Office Minister, but let me remind him about other victims who came to me whom I did help. The victims of the Tavistock scandal came to me,...

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