About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Neil Hudson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Epping Forest, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Epping Forest

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

Also represented Penrith and The Border

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Transport
• Electronic Cigarettes: Waste Disposal
• Railways: Rural Areas
• Water Restoration Fund
• Animal and Plant Health Agency: Weybridge
• Slaughterhouses

Currently held offices

• Member, Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (since 21 May 2025)
• Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (since 8 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Committee (13 May 2025 to 14 May 2025)
• Member, Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] Committee (18 Dec 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)
• Member, Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill Committee (21 Feb 2024 to 28 Feb 2024)
• Member, Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 20 Feb 2024)
• Member, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL] Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 9 Dec 2021)
• Member, Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee ( 3 Nov 2021 to 18 Nov 2021)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Eleanor Laing
• Steven Norris
• John Biggs-Davison

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Water (Special Measures) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Committee (0 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  I fully appreciate and respect the differing views on both sides of this debate, and I thank the huge number of constituents in Epping Forest who have contacted me about the Bill. This legislation to permit assisted dying or suicide leaves me with many concerns. I fear that some frail and vulnerable people may start to feel a burden to their families and may feel some pressure to proceed down...

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  I will not. I preface these remarks by saying that I am in no way equating the passing of an animal with the passing of a human, which is of a completely different order of magnitude, but the end of an animal’s life has sometimes been drawn into the discussion of human assisted dying. Many of the protocols and drugs are similar to those being discussed for humans. As a veterinary surgeon, I...

• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Animal Disease Outbreaks 19 Jun 2025

  This month, the National Audit Office’s “Resilience to animal diseases” report laid bare the startling reality about our biosecurity, stating: “Defra and APHA would struggle to manage a more severe outbreak or concurrent serious outbreaks”, and the risk of site failure at the APHA site at Weybridge is at its maximum rating. As I have raised 16 times in this Parliament, a fully...

More of Neil Hudson’s recent appearances

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