About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Steve Darling) represents you, and all of the people who live in Torbay, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Pension Credit
• Personal Independence Payment
• State Retirement Pensions: Women
• Fisheries: Finance
• Home Education

Currently held offices

• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)
• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Work and Pensions) (since 18 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (12 Feb 2025 to 18 Mar 2025)
• Member, Employment Rights Bill Committee (13 Nov 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Kevin Foster
• Adrian Sanders
• Rupert Allason
• Frederic Bennett

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (3 out of 4)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Employment Rights Bill Committee (17 out of 21)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Home Office: Refugees: Ukraine 15 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications to the Ukrainian Permission Extension scheme have been (a) made, (b) processed, (c) granted, (d) withdrawn and (e) rejected for which the latest data is available.

• Mansion House Accord 13 May 2025

  Liberal Democrats cautiously welcome the response from the Minister. Clearly, ensuring that people have a good return on their investments is essential, but we welcome this step change where we are looking at investment within the United Kingdom within the appropriate parameters. Would the Minister unpick for us what core lessons he has learned from Australia and Canada, which have already...

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Beaches: Access 12 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of implementing a national beach accessibility framework on (a) public health and (b) the economy; and if he will consider providing funding to improve access to beaches in (i) Torbay and (ii) other deprived coastal areas.

More of Steve Darling’s recent appearances

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