About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Rachel Gilmour) represents you, and all of the people who live in Tiverton and Minehead, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Tiverton and Minehead

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

Social Media

• @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
• Agriculture: Subsidies
• Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
• Social Services: Disability
• Waste Disposal: Fees and Charges

Currently held offices

• Member, Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee (since 4 Jun 2025)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Backbench Business: Long-term Medical Conditions — [Clive Efford in the Chair] 12 Jun 2025

  My office is supporting a vulnerable, elderly constituent, who has multiple sclerosis and suffers nervous breakdowns, having also battled hip cancer and undergone a hip replacement. Does the Minister agree that the failure to provide people with social care and early-intervention support can often expose individuals to a cascade of further suffering, and of course increases the strain on our...

• SEND Funding 12 Jun 2025

  I hope the hon. Gentleman agrees that under the current model, families must first endure an unnecessarily prolonged, complex and emotionally draining diagnostic process before resources finally begin to trickle in. That is a reactive approach, which not only delays the sense of support but undermines the principle of educational equality and inclusion. Does he agree that we must recalibrate...

• NHS Funding: South-west 11 Jun 2025

  My constituency, which straddles the Devon-Somerset border, has a disproportionately elderly population. We have perhaps even greater and more regular healthcare needs than some other parts of the country, but significant funding shortfalls have hit GP practices particularly hard. In the coastal west Somerset area, we have what are termed dental deserts. The percentage of adults in my...

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