About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Edward Leigh) represents you, and all of the people who live in Gainsborough, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Ceidwadwyr MP ar gyfer Gainsborough

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 9 Mehefin 1983 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Also represented Gainsborough and Horncastle

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• @EdwardLeighMP
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

Edward Leigh campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Department
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Health
• National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
• Abortion
• Local Government Finance
• Iraq
• Civil Partnerships

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Member, Panel of Chairs (since 30 Gor 2024)
• Father of the House of Commons (since 4 Gor 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Programme Board Committee (23 Chw 2023 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (28 Med 2020 to 17 Mai 2022)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (15 Ion 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill Committee (26 Tach 2018 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Procedure Committee (19 Maw 2018 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Public Accounts Commission (16 Tach 2017 to 4 Gor 2022)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (22 Meh 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, International Trade Committee (31 Hyd 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Public Accounts Commission ( 4 Tach 2015 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Procedure Committee (13 Gor 2015 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Members' Expenses Committee (18 Gor 2011 to 30 Maw 2015)
• Chair, Public Accounts Commission (16 Maw 2011 to 30 Maw 2015)
• Chair, Public Accounts Commission (16 Maw 2011 to 30 Maw 2015)
• Member, Panel of Chairs ( 7 Gor 2010 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 1 Ion 2010 to 6 Mai 2010)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) ( 5 Tach 2001 to 6 Mai 2010)
• Chair, Public Accounts Committee (17 Hyd 2001 to 1 Ion 2010)
• Chair, Public Accounts Committee (17 Hyd 2001 to 1 Ion 2010)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (14 Ebr 2000 to 17 Hyd 2001)
• Member, Deregulation Committee (29 Gor 1997 to 4 Rha 1997)
• Member, International Development Committee (14 Gor 1997 to 19 Gor 2001)
• Member, Agriculture Committee (26 Chw 1996 to 17 Hyd 1996)
• Member, Social Security Committee (11 Rha 1995 to 13 Rha 2000)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Trade and Industry) ( 2 Tach 1990 to 27 Mai 1993)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 9 Meh 1983 to 15 Mai 1987)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Marcus Kimball
• Harry Crookshank
• Richard Winfrey
• John Molson
• George Bentham
• Alexander Renton
• Seymour Ormsby-Gore
• Emerson Bainbridge
• Joseph Bennett
• Henry Eyre
• Joseph Bennett

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Chairman, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (4 out of 13)
• Chairman, Bus Services No. 2 Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
• Chairman, Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Armed Forces Commissioner Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
• Chairman, Bus Services (No. 2) Bill Committee (0 out of 6)
• Chairman, Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (2 out of 10)
• Chairman, Social Housing (Regulation) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Chairman, Victims and Prisoners Bill Committee (4 out of 14)
• Chairman, Elections Bill Committee (4 out of 12)
• Chairman, Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill Committee (4 out of 8)
• Chairman, Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Chairman, Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Committee (4 out of 7)
• Chairman, Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill Committee Committee (1 out of 1)
• Chairman, Higher Education and Research Bill Committee (6 out of 14)
• Chairman, Trade Union Bill Committee (5 out of 10)
• Chairman, Health Service Commissioner for England (Complaint Handling) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Chairman, Local Audit and AccountabilityBill Committee (4 out of 9)
• Citizenship (Armed Forces) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Chairman, Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [LORDS] Committee (1 out of 1)
• Chairman, Energy Bill Committee (8 out of 16)
• Chairman, Energy Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Chairman, Financial Services Bill Committee (9 out of 18)
• Chairman, Energy Bill Committee (4 out of 8)
• Mortgage Repossessions (Protection of Tenants Etc.) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Education and Inspections Bill Committee (21 out of 21)
• International Development Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Hunting Bill Committee (14 out of 16)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Backbench Business: Freedom of Religion or Belief: UK Foreign Policy — [Carolyn Harris in the Chair] 17 Jul 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I thank the special envoy for freedom of religion or belief, the hon. Member for North Northumberland (David Smith), for securing this important debate and for all his work. The Prime Minister obviously made an excellent choice. Freedom of religion or belief should be the cornerstone of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy to...

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Colombia: Human Rights 17 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Colombian counterpart on the forced disappearance of eight people in Guaviare Department on 4 and 5 April 2025; and whether he has had discussions with that counterpart on investigations into those disappearances.

• Afghanistan 15 Jul 2025

  I commend the Secretary of State for his honesty and I agree with everything he says in his statement. What an appalling mess, but part of the original sin was our intervening militarily and then scuttling out. On a wider point, may I take it that we have learnt our lesson and have got over the liberal imperial itch of the Cameron and Blair eras to intervene militarily in ungovernable...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Edward Leigh

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