At a glanceGeorge Freeman is a Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They have cast 302 votes in Commons divisions (53% attendance), tabled 16 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; George Freeman did not vote in 273. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
Current roles
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee Committee since 21 Oct 2024
- Mid Norfolk Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst
Conservative
100.0% · 284 of 284 shared votes
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Dr Luke Evans
Conservative
100.0% · 283 of 283 shared votes
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Kit Malthouse
Conservative
100.0% · 280 of 280 shared votes
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Mike Wood
Conservative
100.0% · 278 of 278 shared votes
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James Cartlidge
Conservative
100.0% · 274 of 274 shared votes
Votes least like
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Debbie Abrahams
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 226 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 199 shared votes
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Gareth Thomas
Labour (Co-op)
0.0% · 0 of 193 shared votes
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Taiwo Owatemi
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 191 shared votes
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Ian Murray
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 186 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Employment and earnings5
- Speaker at the Oxford Global CEO Programme 2025 (in Hong Kong and Singapore) - Oxford Institute of Digital Health (registered 23 Dec 2025)
- Advisor to the Board of Trustees - The Guy Foundation Family Trust (registered 20 Feb 2025)
- Advisory Board, Science, Innovation and Technology - Space 4 Earth VC Fund (registered 3 Dec 2024)
- Advisor - Nighthawk Partners Limited (registered 13 Nov 2024)
- Chairman of Advisory Board, Nodenza Venture Partners - Nodenza Venture Partners (registered 26 Jul 2024)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments4
- Payment received on 12 December 2025 - £5,000.00 (registered 29 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 11 June 2025 - £2,000.00 (registered 6 Jul 2025)
- Payment received on 29 June 2025 - £3,000.00 (registered 6 Jul 2025)
- Payment received on 29 May 2025 - £2,000.00 (registered 6 Jul 2025)
Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment4
- Agreement starting 14 February 2025 - £3,000.00 (registered 20 Feb 2025)
- Agreement starting 01 December 2024 - £1,000.00 (registered 3 Dec 2024)
- Agreement starting 16 October 2024 - £3,000.00 (registered 13 Nov 2024)
- Agreement starting 01 August 2024 - £1,500.00 (registered 26 Jul 2024)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
- Steve Harman - £500.00 (registered 19 Aug 2025)
Visits outside the UK4
- International visit to United Arab Emirates between 05 November 2025 and 12 November 2025 (registered 2 Dec 2025)
- International visit to Hong Kong between 05 December 2025 and 12 December 2025 (registered 21 Dec 2025)
- International visit to Luxembourg on 23 October 2025 (registered 17 Nov 2025)
- International visit to Austria between 28 October 2025 and 29 October 2025 (registered 7 Nov 2025)
Shareholdings1
- Shares in Regeneration Advisory Ltd (registered 6 Dec 2024)
Miscellaneous1
- Unpaid Director of Regeneration Theatre Company, a not-for-profit outreach theatre company founded by me and my wife, a professional theatre director, in conjunction with the National Youth Arts Trust (Reg Charity No:1152367). The theatre company is funded by philanthropic donors through the National Youth Arts Trust. (registered 21 Aug 2025)
Written questions
Genetically Modified Organisms: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has discussed the UK’s gene-editing legislation with his counterparts in the European Union.
Answer · 20 Feb 2025
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government is introducing legislation to enact the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants and food and feed before the end of March. The Eu...
Genetically Modified Organisms: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is his policy to align gene-editing legislation with the European Union.
Answer · 20 Feb 2025
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government is introducing legislation to enact the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants and food and feed before the end of March. The Eu...
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to fully enact the provisions of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023.
Answer · 18 Feb 2025
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Secretary of State has recently announced that the secondary legislation necessary to implement the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 for plants ...
Research: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to paragraph 3.68 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, what steps he plans to take to monitor the potential impact of the £20.4 billion R&D in
Answer · 20 Dec 2024
R&D is fundamental to achieving the government’s mission of kickstarting economic growth. DSIT regularly monitors economic and R&D business growth indicators and requires monitoring and evaluation to be undertaken as a condition of its funding. At...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans he has for the data collected by the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Modelling Advancement (GEMMA) programme; and if he will make it his policy to integrate that data into
Answer · 16 Dec 2024
The Government monitors and verifies greenhouse gas emissions using measurement data collected through a network of sensors across the country. The Department is working closely with the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement and Modelling Advancement (GEMM...
Carbon Emissions: Agriculture and Land Use
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to use earth observation data to help support the (a) measurement, (b) monitoring and (c) setting of (i) agricultural, (ii) landfill and (iii) land use contributions t
Answer · 6 Jan 2025
Remote sensing technologies have increasing potential to provide cost-effective solutions for monitoring land use changes, gas leaks, and population density. Defra is examining the feasibility of employing Earth observation techniques for the monitoring a...
Remote Sensing: Environment
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will have discussions with the (a) UK Space Agency and (b) Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology on using UK Earth Observation data for greenhouse gas emissions trac
Answer · 17 Dec 2024
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero engages with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology and the UK Space Agency through the National Space Council, where Government’s direction for space policy and strategy is de...
Remote Sensing: Environment
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans he has for the use of Earth observation data; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using it to support the (a) measurement, (b) monitoring and (c) setti
Answer · 16 Dec 2024
The Government monitors and verifies greenhouse gas emissions using measurement data collected through a network of sensors across the country. The UK is one of only four countries in the world currently reporting the validation of greenhouse gas emission...
Early day motions
| 25 Feb 2025 | British Science Week | 17 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
My right hon. Friend makes an important point. I will make a slightly different point, which is that there are huge opportunities for good growth in this country. Speaking as someone who has had a 16-year career backing the industries of t…
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
My right hon. Friend makes an important point. The King’s speech that my constituents loved was the King’s speech in Washington, in which he spoke for the very best of this country. My point is that it is in all our interests—I say this as…
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
There is no more important issue for the country than the stubbornly low growth rate and the structural barriers to the growth, productivity, enterprise, innovation and investment that this country so desperately needs, solutions to which …
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
My hon. Friend is making a really important point. I was previously the Minister responsible for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Traditionally, the MHRA’s influence has been in denying proper companies permission. …
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
The hon. Member makes an important point about regulation in Northern Ireland. When in government, I championed the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, which gives this country the ability to grow disease-resistant and drough…
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
The Secretary of State is making a wonderful speech about the 1980s. While I agree with many of his points, the truth is that the country today has come a long way in all sorts of sectors, and I am proud to have done my bit to help that. O…
14 Apr 2026 Ground-mounted Solar Panels: Alternatives
On the important point that the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Samantha Niblett) made about connections, what we are discovering in Norfolk is that the grid connection investment is an open door to much bigger solar applications. We hav…
14 Apr 2026 Ground-mounted Solar Panels: Alternatives
On the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Biggin Hill (Peter Fortune) made, I can say that when I was the Minister for Space, I strongly supported space solar, which is a genuinely exciting British breakthrough. My hon…
18 Mar 2026 Flooding: Rural Communities
The Minister has mentioned Aviva, one of Norfolk’s great companies and the biggest insurer of houses in the country. Has she seen its recent report, in which it calculates that about 4.78 million houses are at serious risk of flooding over…
18 Mar 2026 Flooding: Rural Communities
I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. On the point of insurance, I have just come from chairing a meeting with Aviva—a great Norfolk insurer, the biggest insurer of houses in the country. It made the point to me that this …
18 Mar 2026 Draft Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2026
What provision do these measures make for the disproportionate impact of fuel poverty in rural areas? Treasury figures show that cost of energy increases have disproportionately hit rural households, rural public services, rural charities …
2 Mar 2026 Representation of the People Bill
My hon. Friend is making an interesting argument that voting should be defined not by age, but by a contract of citizenship. Could he share what he thinks those criteria might be—living in the country, paying tax or working here?
2 Mar 2026 Representation of the People Bill
This is an important Bill, and I support some of the aims and aspirations that the Secretary of State set out at the beginning. I also share many of the concerns raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Sir James Cleverly).…
28 Jan 2026 Flooding
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the responsibilities and duties of certain authorities and agencies in respect of inland flood prevention; to make provision about the powers of local flood a…
3 Dec 2025 Engagements
I was recently the target of an AI deepfake video announcing my defection to Reform. As colleagues across the House will know, that is about as likely as Reform moving from pub populism to a coherent programme for government. I am delighte…
26 Nov 2025 Children of Alcoholics
I am very grateful to the hon. Member for making a powerful, personal and political point. He is absolutely right. For my part, people often ask me how on earth I ended up in this place. My mother, who went on to become an alcoholic—tra…
26 Nov 2025 Children of Alcoholics
The hon. Lady makes another excellent point. As I know the Minister and his Department understand, not only is there no magic bullet but many of these issues circulate and form secondary complications that cost—which is the least of it—hug…
26 Nov 2025 Children of Alcoholics
I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I want to reassure the Minister that I am not here to hit him with 20 demands—that will come in due course. Today is really a chance to raise the flag of the all-party parliamentary group. The hon. Gentlema…
26 Nov 2025 Children of Alcoholics
I beg to move, That this House has considered the children of alcoholics. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris, particularly on this day, when there are other events going on in Parliament. I am gratefu…
24 Nov 2025 Planning: Floods Resilience Taskforce
In areas like Mid Norfolk, planning is the key to avoiding developments that cause and exacerbate flooding. In Attleborough, a recent planning application for 350 houses on a floodplain was turned down by the council on the basis that it w…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 7 Feb 2023 – 13 Nov 2023
- Minister of State (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 26 Oct 2022 – 7 Feb 2023
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 17 Sep 2021 – 7 Jul 2022
- Minister of State (Department for Transport) · Department for Transport 26 Jul 2019 – 13 Feb 2020
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health) · Department of Health 15 Jul 2014 – 17 Jul 2016
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) 15 Jul 2014 – 17 Jul 2016
Committee memberships
- Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill 24 Jan 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
- Pet Abduction Bill 24 Jan 2024 – 31 Jan 2024
- Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 29 Nov 2010
Previous seats
- Mid Norfolk · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Stevenage 5 May 2005
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 6502
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Rooms 333-335 Breckland Business Centre, St Withburga Lane, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1FD
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about George Freeman, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is George Freeman?
George Freeman is a Member of Parliament representing Mid Norfolk in the House of Commons. See George Freeman's official Parliament profile.
Which party does George Freeman represent?
George Freeman sits as Conservative. See George Freeman's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does George Freeman represent?
George Freeman is the Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk. See George Freeman's official Parliament profile.
How long has George Freeman been an MP?
George Freeman has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See George Freeman's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for George Freeman?
George Freeman has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See George Freeman's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.