Jacob Rees-Mogg

Conservative MP for North East Somerset

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s voting in Parliament

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Recent appearances

  • Gas-fired Power Stations 13 Mar 2024

    The announcement on gas-fired power stations is extremely welcome, but at the moment a kilowatt-hour of electricity in the UK costs 44 cents, against 17 cents in the US and 8 cents in both China and India. We have become fundamentally uncompetitive because of this green obsession. We want cheap electricity and we should have gas and we should have coal, and we should postpone net zero...
  • Income Tax (Charge) 6 Mar 2024

    It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), and particularly my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Sir David Davis), who made an important speech, particularly as regards the OBR. It was telling that the Chancellor started his speech by pointing out, at least inadvertently—it was not a deliberate attack—how many things the OBR...
  • Income Tax (Charge) 6 Mar 2024

    France, Italy and Portugal, our oldest ally. Yes, absolutely, other countries are competing for the very rich, who will go to those countries, rather than coming here. I am also not in favour of the extra tax on oil companies. We need more oil and gas. One of the reasons why our productivity has been low and our economy stagnant, compared with the United States, is our much higher energy...

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Conservative MP for North East Somerset

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

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Topics of interest

Jacob Rees-Mogg campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

  • Home Department
  • Home Office
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Treasury
  • Ministry of Justice
  • EU Justice and Home Affairs
  • Children: Maintenance
  • Arrest Warrants
  • Schengen Agreement: ICT
  • Organised Crime: EU Law

Other offices held in the past

  • The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( 6 Sep 2022 to 25 Oct 2022)
  • Minister of State (Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency) ( 8 Feb 2022 to 6 Sep 2022)
  • Member, Members Estimate Committee (24 Jul 2019 to 8 Feb 2022)
  • Member, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (24 Jul 2019 to 8 Feb 2022)
  • Member, Public Accounts Commission (24 Jul 2019 to 8 Feb 2022)
  • Member, House of Commons Commission (24 Jul 2019 to 8 Feb 2022)
  • Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (24 Jul 2019 to 8 Feb 2022)
  • Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Palace of Westminster (Joint Committee) (16 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
  • Member, European Scrutiny Committee (15 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
  • Member, Treasury Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
  • Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art ( 1 Jul 2015 to 17 Nov 2015)
  • Member, House of Commons Governance Committee (16 Oct 2014 to 17 Dec 2014)
  • Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art (18 Nov 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, Procedure Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, European Scrutiny Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

1. Employment and earnings
Payments from Associated Newspapers, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London W8 5TT:
21 February 2023, received £1,000 for an article. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 02 March 2023)
29 June 2023, received £850 for an article. Hours: 1 hrs. (Registered 07 July 2023)
3 August 2023, received £500 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 07 August 2023)
Payments from the Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT:
4 April 2023, received £500 for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 12 April 2023)
11 July 2023, received £1,000 for an article. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 12 July 2023)
Payments from GB News, 2 Swan Lane, London EC4R 3TT, for presenting a TV programme:
30 March 2023, received £32,083.34. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 25 April 2023)
27 April 2023, received £29,290.47. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 04 May 2023)
25 May 2023, received £29,290.47. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 30 May 2023)
29 June 2023, received £29,290.47. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 07 July 2023)
27 July 2023, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 31 July 2023)
31 August 2023, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation and some paid holiday. (Registered 06 September 2023)
28 September, 2023, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 05 October 2023)
26 October 2023, received £29,166.67 for presenting a television programme. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 31 October 2023)
30 November 2023, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 30 November 2023)
21 December 2023, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 10 January 2024)
25 January, 2024, received £29,166.67. Hours: 40 hrs including preparation. (Registered 05 February 2024)
25 April 2023, received £750 from News UK & Ireland Limited, P.O. Box 151, Peterborough PE7 8YT, for an article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 25 April 2023)
Payment of £30,000 expected from Munk Debates, An Aurea Foundation Initiative, 23 Empire Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4M 2L3, for participating in a debate on 3 November 2023. Business class travel from London, two nights' hotel accommodation and airport transfers in Canada were also provided by the payer. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 30 November 2023)
2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
Name of donor: Jonathan Patrick Moynihan
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 to the North East Somerset Conservative Association
Donor status: individual
(Registered 13 November 2023)
6. Land and property portfolio: (i) value over £100,000 and/or (ii) giving rental income of over £10,000 a year
Residential property, land and related farm buildings in Somerset: (i) and (ii). (Updated 20 October 2021)
Residential property in London: (i) and (ii).
7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
Saliston; holding company. (Registered 31 May 2010; updated 01 March 2023)
7. (ii) Other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000
From 1 April 2021, Somerset Capital Management LLP; investment management. (Registered 28 April 2021)
8. Miscellaneous
Trustee of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Oxford Foundation, which supports the Oxford Union Literary and Debating trust and through it the charitable activities of the Oxford Union Society. Those activities include education and support for free speech. (Registered 20 April 2016)
Trustee of the Oxford Literary and Debating Union Trust, which supports the charitable activities of the Oxford Union Society. Those activities include education and support for free speech. (Registered 20 April 2016)
Partner in Somerset Capital Management LLP, 146 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9TR; investment management. Unpaid since July 2019. (Registered 28 April 2021)
From 1 January 2023, unremunerated director of Saliston, which is a shareholder (over 15%) in Somerset Capital Management Ltd. (Registered 30 January 2023; updated 01 March 2023)

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