About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Tom Gordon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Harrogate and Knaresborough, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Transport
• Treasury
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Harrogate College
• Cancer: Health Services
• Breast Cancer: Screening
• Gambling: Reform
• Lung Cancer: Screening

Currently held offices

• Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Andrew Jones
• Phil Willis

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 6 Dec 2024

  Impact of spray foam insulation on property values and mortgages (HMT) – Tom Gordon. Adjournment debate

• Health and Social Care: NHS Dentists: Access 19 Nov 2024

  Earlier this year, I was at an orthodontist’s practice that carries out work on behalf of the NHS. It said the issue is that when people are referred to it by their general dentist, it cannot go on to do the orthodontic work because their teeth are in too bad a state, so they are referred back to the dentist, but they cannot get in because of waiting lists and issues. When we look at...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Psychiatric Patients: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust 18 Nov 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many avoidable or preventable deaths of mental health patients at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS trust there have been in each of the last three years.

More of Tom Gordon’s recent appearances

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