About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Katie Lam) represents you, and all of the people who live in Weald of Kent, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Weald of Kent

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Church Commissioners
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Education
• Church of England: Slavery
• Food: Schools
• Railways: Kent
• Manufacturing Industries: Kent
• British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty

Currently held offices

• Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) (since 18 Nov 2024)
• Member, Transport Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (12 Feb 2025 to 18 Mar 2025)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (7 out of 7)

Recent appearances

• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill: Clause 1 - Offence of unauthorised entry to designated football matches 11 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth) for bringing the Bill forward. For many in this Chamber, the Euro 2020 final was a rollercoaster of ecstasy and disappointment, though I appreciate that certain Members from other parts of our United Kingdom may have felt a little less devastated at the result. Beyond heartbreak on the pitch, the Euro 2020 final was a day that...

• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill: Clause 1 - Offence of unauthorised entry to designated football matches 11 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Linsey Farnsworth) for bringing the Bill forward and my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for his amendments. At this stage, is it correct that you wish us to speak only to the amendment, Mr Speaker? [Interruption.] Yes. We the Opposition have nothing further to add to the debate that we have had this morning.

• Written Answers — Department for Transport: Railways: Kent 10 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Minister for Rail's letter to the hon. Member for Weald of Kent on rail, dated 14 April 2025, whether (a) the Minister for Rail and (b) officials in her Department had met with the Kent and Medway Economic Partnership before 14 April 2025 to discuss their public interest case for rail investment.

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