About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Ben Lake) represents you, and all of the people who live in Ceredigion Preseli, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Proffil

Plaid Cymru MP ar gyfer Ceredigion Preseli

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 9 Mehefin 2017 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Also represented Ceredigion

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• @benlake.bsky.social
• @BenMLake
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Treasury
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Digital
• Culture
• Media and Sport
• Home Office
• EU Grants and Loans
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• S4C: Reviews
• Public Expenditure: Wales
• NHS: Drugs

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Member, Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee (since 25 Meh 2025)
• Member, Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill Committee (since 25 Meh 2025)
• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee (since 4 Tach 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Community and Suspended Sentences (Notification of Details) Bill Committee ( 8 Mai 2024 to 15 Mai 2024)
• Member, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill Committee ( 1 Mai 2024 to 8 Mai 2024)
• Member, Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee ( 1 Mai 2024 to 8 Mai 2024)
• Member, Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill Committee (17 Ebr 2024 to 24 Ebr 2024)
• Member, Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (17 Ebr 2024 to 24 Ebr 2024)
• Member, Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill (Formerly known as Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill) Committee (13 Maw 2024 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (26 Meh 2023 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Down Syndrome Bill Committee (19 Ion 2022 to 26 Ion 2022)
• Member, Welsh Grand Committee (18 Ion 2022 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee ( 3 Tach 2021 to 18 Tach 2021)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Treasury) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Education) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Health and Social Care) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (Housing, Communities & Local Government) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow PC Spokesperson (The Constitution and Welsh Affairs) (21 Gor 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee ( 2 Maw 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee (11 Med 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Community and Suspended Sentences (Notification of Details) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill Committee Committee (1 out of 1)
• Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Down Syndrome Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parliamentary Constituencies Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Overseas Electors Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Agriculture Bill Committee (12 out of 14)
• Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Prime Minister: Engagements 9 Jul 2025

  My constituent Mr Brian Buckle is a victim of a miscarriage of justice. He was wrongfully imprisoned for over five years before being exonerated at retrial. Despite a jury unanimously finding him not guilty of the crimes for which he was imprisoned, and the devasting impact the injustice continues to have on him and his family, his application for compensation was denied due to a 2014 change...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Epilepsy: Drugs 4 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report, published on 8 July 2020, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of launching a public inquiry into the potential harms of anti-seizure medication.

• Women’s State Pension Age: Financial Redress 3 Jul 2025

  It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Alloa and Grangemouth (Brian Leishman). I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Salford (Rebecca Long Bailey) on securing this debate, and on being such a champion of this cause for many years. Indeed, we have had to debate this injustice in this House for too many years, whether on these green Benches or in other Chambers on the estate....

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