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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton and Wellington

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• New Towns
• Planning Authorities: Ecology
• Solar Power
• Housing: Carbon Emissions
• Housing: Construction

Currently held offices

• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Housing and Planning) (since 18 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (16 Oct 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (8 out of 8)

Recent appearances

• National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Clause 1 - Rate of secondary Class 1 contributions 19 Mar 2025

  The £615 cost per person reported to me by care providers in my constituency will mean that one constituent, who is paying £1,500 a week for care for her 94-year-old mother, will no longer have the money to pay for the care of her disabled brother as well, after the fees go up as a result of this jobs tax. Does my hon. Friend agree that that is a shockingly unacceptable result of these...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Prescription Drugs: Finance 19 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the funding for early access programmes.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Planning Authorities: Ecology 19 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of planning authorities’ access to ecological expertise.

More of Gideon Amos’s recent appearances