Career
Bill has sat on the following Select Committees. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Education, Community and Local Government, Treasury.
Bill was appointed Shadow Minister for Small Business in September 2015.
Bill has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. He trained with a large accountancy firm and subsequently became director of a training consultancy.
When Medway Council was created in 1997, Bill Esterson was elected to represent Town Ward a ward. He represented Town Ward until 2003, when boundary changes were implemented.
Bill was also previously the Councillor for Street Margaret"s and Borstal ward on Rochester-upon-Medway City Council which was dissolved to form Medway Council.
Bill Esterson contributed to the Hillsborough debate in the House of Commons on 17 October 2011 by reading directly the words of a bereaved father. In September 2011 he contributed to the book What next for Labour? In January 2015 Esterson proposed a bill which would introduce compulsory labelling of alcoholic drinks warning about potential dangers from drinking during pregnancy. Bill Esterson has been the Shadow Minister for Small Business since September 2015.