Gareth Bacon, MP for Orpington
Gareth Bacon has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Shadow Minister (Housing and Planning).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2023 to 2024 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Housing and Planning) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2025 to now | Now |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Transport (Department for Transport) | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Shadow Minister (Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (London) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Shadow Minister (Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill | 2024 | |
| Firearms Bill | 2023 | |
| Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill | 2023 | |
| Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill | 2023 | |
| Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill | 2023 | |
| Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) | 2022 | |
| Financial Services and Markets Bill | 2022 | |
| British Sign Language Bill | 2022 |
Show the other 5
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Glue Traps (Offences) Bill | 2022 | |
| Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill | 2021 | |
| National Insurance Contributions Bill | 2021 | |
| Backbench Business Committee | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2020 to 2022 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Gareth Bacon has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Israel between 04 January 2026 and 09 January 2026 | 15 Jan 2026 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Gareth Bacon asked 37 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
55 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Gareth Bacon represents Orpington. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Gareth Bacon won with 38% of the votes, and Ju Owens (Labour) came second with 27%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gareth Bacon | Conservative | 17,504 | 38.0% |
| Ju Owens | Labour | 12,386 | 26.9% |
| Mark James | Reform UK | 8,896 | 19.3% |
| Graeme Casey | Liberal Democrat | 4,728 | 10.3% |
| Seamus McCauley | Green Party | 2,319 | 5.0% |
| John Bright | Social Democratic Party | 240 | 0.5% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Gareth Bacon took part in 222 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Gareth Bacon voted the same way as their party in 220 of the 220 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this