About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Gareth Bacon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Orpington, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Orpington, Former Conservative Member of the London Assembly for Greater London

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

Entered the London Assembly on 5 May 2016 — Election

Left the London Assembly on 7 May 2021 — Election

Also represented Greater London

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• Department for Business and Trade
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Training: Taxation
• Waste Management: Local Government
• Gambling
• Administration of Justice
• Wales Office: Social Clubs

Currently held offices

• Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (since 5 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (London) (19 Jul 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Business and Trade) (19 Jul 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Justice) (19 Jul 2024 to 6 Nov 2024)
• Member, Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill (14 May 2024 to 15 May 2024)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (13 Nov 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Member, Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Firearms Bill Committee ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee ( 1 Mar 2023 to 8 Mar 2023)
• Member, Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill Committee ( 1 Feb 2023 to 8 Feb 2023)
• Member, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) Committee ( 2 Nov 2022 to 29 Nov 2022)
• Member, Financial Services and Markets Bill Committee (12 Oct 2022 to 3 Nov 2022)
• Member, British Sign Language Bill Committee ( 9 Feb 2022 to 23 Feb 2022)
• Member, Glue Traps (Offences) Bill Committee (12 Jan 2022 to 19 Jan 2022)
• Member, Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee ( 7 Sep 2021 to 22 Sep 2021)
• Member, National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (16 Jun 2021 to 22 Jun 2021)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (20 Jul 2020 to 2 Nov 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 15 Mar 2022)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Jo Johnson
• John Horam
• Ivor Stanbrook
• Eric Lubbock
• Donald Sumner
• Waldron Smithers

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) Committee (1 out of 1)
• Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Financial Services and Markets Bill Committee (8 out of 10)
• Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Firearms Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Glue Traps (Offences) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (10 out of 11)
• British Sign Language Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Fire Safety Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Treasury: Taxis: VAT 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's planned timetable is for publishing its response to the consultation entitled VAT Treatment of Private Hire Vehicles, which closed on 8 August 2024.

• Written Answers — Treasury: Taxis: VAT 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of applying VAT to private hire journeys outside London on the private hire industry.

• Road and Rail Projects 8 Jul 2025

  Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank the Secretary of State for her statement and for advance sight of it. Make no mistake: infrastructure is the connective tissue that binds our economy together. Our railways and strategic roads are the veins and arteries of our economy, connecting businesses up and down the country. That is why these announcements are to be welcomed, just as they were...

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