Wera Hobhouse

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport)

Liberal Democrat MP for Bath

@Wera_Hobhouse https://facebook.com/WeraHobhouse

Wera Hobhouse’s voting in Parliament

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Recent appearances

  • Written Answers — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Heat Pumps: Housing 15 Mar 2024

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate she has made of the number of heat pumps the Clean Heat Market Mechanism will deliver as part of the target to install 600,000 heat pumps in private domiciles by 2028.
  • Gas-fired Power Stations 13 Mar 2024

    Oil and gas are the energy sources of the past, and we need an intermittent energy source. Gas power plants are not intermittent. They sit there, and then because there is too much renewable energy it is shut off, and gas—the carbon energy—continues to flow. That is the reality of today: we are wasting renewable energy. The Government do not recognise that reality, and do not respond to...
  • Gas-fired Power Stations 13 Mar 2024

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Liberal Democrat MP for Bath

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

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Topics of interest

  • Department for Transport
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Business
  • Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
  • Carbon Emissions: Local Government
  • Tax Avoidance
  • Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
  • Bus Services

Currently held offices

  • Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill (since 28 Feb 2024)
  • Member, Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee (since 7 Feb 2024)
  • Member, Restoration and Renewal Programme Board Committee (since 7 Feb 2023)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) (since 11 Jul 2022)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change) (since 11 Jul 2022)
  • Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (since 7 Sep 2020)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill Committee (16 Nov 2022 to 23 Nov 2022)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) ( 7 Sep 2020 to 10 Jul 2022)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Women and Equalities) ( 7 Sep 2020 to 10 Jul 2022)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Energy) ( 6 Jan 2020 to 7 Sep 2020)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) (21 Aug 2019 to 6 Jan 2020)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) ( 7 Feb 2019 to 21 Aug 2019)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Environment and Climate Change) ( 7 Feb 2019 to 7 Sep 2020)
  • Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (16 Jun 2017 to 8 Feb 2019)

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

4. Visits outside the UK
Name of donor: Ludolf v. Schöning
Address of donor: private
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Travel costs (£500) and hotel accommodation (£170), total value £670
Destination of visit: Stadthagen, Germany
Dates of visit: 2-4 June 2023
Purpose of visit: Keynote speaker at the British Symposium, a cultural forum for bilateral dialogues.
(Registered 14 June 2023)
Name of donor: Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit
Address of donor: ECIU, 180 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Accommodation £759.65, flight £660, maximum subsistence received £100, total value £1,519.65
Destination of visit: Dubai, UAE
Dates of visit: 8-11 December 2023
Purpose of visit: Attendance at COP28, as part of the APPG for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, to learn about the COP negotiation process and the role of legislators to achieve the targets set for the global climate and decarbonisation agenda.
(Registered 21 December 2023)
6. Land and property portfolio: (i) value over £100,000 and/or (ii) giving rental income of over £10,000 a year
A house in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough, owned jointly with my husband: (i) and (ii). (Registered 05 July 2017)
Until 26 May 2023, a second house in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough, owned jointly with my husband: (i) and (ii). (Registered 05 July 2017; updated 05 June 2023)
7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
Compotex GmbH; technical textile finishing. (Registered 05 July 2017)
8. Miscellaneous
Trustee, Norden Community Trust. (Registered 05 July 2017)
Patron, Bath Festivals. (Registered 05 July 2017)

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