Gideon Amos
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Gideon Amos | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Taunton and Wellington | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Majority | 11,939 (23.7%) |
| Liberal Democrat portfolios | |
| 2024–2025 | Housing and Planning |
| 2025–present | Housing and Communities |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gideon John Amos |
| Party | Liberal Democrats |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Oxford Brookes University |
| Profession |
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| Website | www |
Gideon John Amos[1] OBE is a British politician, architect, and urban designer. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton and Wellington since 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he defeated Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party with a majority of 11,939 in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
Amos grew up in Somerset.[2][3] He was privately educated at Wells Cathedral School and studied architecture at Oxford Polytechnic (later Oxford Brookes University).[4] Amos served as a member of the Territorial Army and has been an inspector and helper with the Army Cadet Force.[5]
Career
After qualifying as an urban designer and a chartered architect, Amos designed and managed housing and listed-building developments in the private sector.[6] He was appointed a development designer at Atkins in 1994. He became a director of Planning Aid for London in 1997 and was appointed the chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) in 2000.[7] Amos sat on advisory groups for planning and eco-development at the Department for Communities and Local Government.[6] He left the TCPA in 2010 to become a commissioner at the new Infrastructure Planning Commission.[7][8]
Amos worked on infrastructure planning as a civil servant at the Planning Inspectorate for five years, and co-founded Amos Ellis Consulting, a planning consultancy, in 2015.[9][10] He has served as a council member at the National Infrastructure Planning Association.[11]
In the 2009 New Year Honours, Amos was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to sustainable development.[12]
Political career
Amos was a Liberal Democrat member of Oxford City Council for the ward of Central from 1992 to 1996, serving on a planning committee.[6][7][13]
In the 2017 and 2019 general elections, Amos stood for election to Parliament in Taunton Deane, finishing in second place to Rebecca Pow of the Conservative Party on both occasions.[14] He defeated Pow in the new constituency of Taunton and Wellington at the 2024 general election, achieving 48.4 per cent of the vote and a majority of 11,939.[15]
