Gareth Andrew Bacon (born 7 April 1972) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington since 2019.

[1] He studied at St. Mary's and St. Joseph's School in Sidcup, then at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics and Government in 1996.

In October 2015, Bacon succeeded Andrew Boff as the Leader of the GLA Conservative Group at City Hall, a position he held until 2019.

[11][1] Bacon was a long-standing councillor on Bexley Council, representing Sidcup West from 1998 to 2002, and then Longlands ward, centred on the area of the same name, from 2002 to 2021.

[citation needed] Bacon was elected Deputy Leader of Bexley Council in 2014, a position he left in January 2015 after his appointment to the London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority.

[18] Following an interim report on the connections between colonialism and properties now in the care of the National Trust, including links with historic slavery, Bacon was among the signatories of a letter to The Telegraph in November 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Conservative Parliamentarians.

On 15 March 2022, he was appointed as PPS to the Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, Jacob Rees-Mogg, within the Cabinet Office.

Following the reshuffle after Liz Truss's election as Leader of the Conservative Party, he was appointed as PPS to the new Secretary of State for Justice Brandon Lewis on 26 September 2022.

[citation needed] On 13 November 2023, Bacon was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.