Joanna Cherry

Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice and Home Affairs)

Scottish National Party MP for Edinburgh South West

@joannaccherry https://facebook.com/JoannaCherryMP

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Recent appearances

  • Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 1 Jan 1970

    Scottish Law Officers (Devolution) Bill: Second Reading – Joanna Cherry. Private Members' Bills
  • Asylum and Migration 14 Mar 2024

    Does the Minister appreciate that those of us who question the Rwanda scheme are doing so not because we do not think that the boats should be stopped, but because we think that the Rwanda scheme is not the way to do that and does not provide value for money? Those are the issues that he needs to address in the short time that he has left—whether the Rwanda scheme is value for money.
  • Asylum and Migration 14 Mar 2024

    I want to focus my comments on the cost of the Government’s Rwanda policy, particularly as I visited Kigali two weeks ago as Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Committee will report on our visit in due course, so any comments that I make today are made in my personal capacity. It was good that the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon...

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Scottish National Party MP for Edinburgh South West

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

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Topics of interest

Joanna Cherry campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Home Office
  • Foreign
  • Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Ministry of Justice
  • Department for International Trade
  • Human Rights Act 1998
  • Academic Technology Approval Scheme
  • Channel Ferries: Freight
  • Protective Clothing: Contracts
  • Refugees: Ukraine

Currently held offices

  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 10 Jan 2024)
  • Chair, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (since 10 Jan 2024)
  • Chair, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (since 10 Jan 2024)
  • Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice and Home Affairs) (since 20 Jun 2017)

Other offices held in the past

  • Chair, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (10 Jan 2024 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Chair, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (10 Jan 2024 to 21 Jun 2023)
  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (21 Jul 2022 to 21 Jun 2023)
  • Chair, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (21 Jul 2022 to 21 Jun 2023)
  • Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union ( 2 Mar 2020 to 16 Jan 2021)
  • Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) ( 2 Mar 2020 to 10 Jan 2024)
  • Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) ( 6 Nov 2017 to 10 Jan 2024)
  • Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice) (20 Jun 2017 to 1 Feb 2021)
  • Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Home Affairs) (20 Jun 2017 to 1 Feb 2021)
  • Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
  • Shadow SNP Westminster Group Leader (Justice and Home Affairs) (13 May 2015 to 20 Jun 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

1. Employment and earnings
Kings Council and member of the Faculty of Advocates. Non-practising since 25 November 2022, but I continue to receive payments for legal services rendered before my election in 2015; and for the period 28 June 2021 to 25 November 2022 when I returned to part-time practice. (Registered 04 June 2015; updated 19 July 2021, 20 December 2022 and 30 December 2022)
From 3 September 2020 until further notice, weekly column for the National. I will receive £150 for each column from Newsquest Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe HP10 9TY. First payment expected on 1 December 2020. Hours: approx. 4 hrs a week. (Registered 18 November 2020)
26 September 2023, received £4,416.67 from MML Law, Meadowplace Buildings, Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1EJ, for legal services provided between 21 December 2021 and 28 April 2022. Hours: 12 hrs. (Registered 19 October 2023)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: NatWest Group
Address of donor: 175 Glasgow Road, Edinburgh EH12 1HQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with lunch for Scotland v Wales rugby match, value £324
Date received: 11 February 2023
Date accepted: 11 February 2023
Donor status: company, registration SC083026
(Registered 06 March 2023)
Name of donor: Neil Murray
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Legal services provided between 8 and 12 May 2023 (paid for by the donor), value £22,932
Date received: 8-12 May 2023
Date accepted: 8 May 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 16 June 2023)
4. Visits outside the UK
Name of donor: Remembering Srebrenica Scotland
Address of donor: c/o Turcan Connell Solicitors, Princes Exchange, Earl Grey Street, Edinburgh EH3 9EE
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£637.51) and accommodation (£232.21), value £869.72
Destination of visit: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dates of visit: 3-5 October 2023
Purpose of visit: To take part in commemoration and educational events in Sarajevo as part of Remembering Srebrenica Scotland's work to raise awareness of the genocide and prevent future atrocities.
(Registered 03 January 2024)
8. Miscellaneous
From 25 January 2022, Member of the advisory group of Sex Matters, a not for profit company which campaigns, advocates and produces resources to promote clarity about sex in public policy, law and culture. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 08 February 2022)

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