Kate Kniveton

Conservative MP for Burton

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Your MP (Kate Kniveton) represents you, and all of the people who live in Burton, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Conservative MP for Burton

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

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Topics of interest

  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Department for Digital
  • Culture
  • Media and Sport
  • Department for Transport
  • Department for Education
  • Royal Stoke University Hospital: Ambulance Services
  • National Insurance
  • Question
  • Pupils: Academic Year
  • Class Sizes: Burton

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Online Safety Bill Committee (18 May 2022 to 22 May 2022)

Previous MPs in this constituency

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Recent appearances

  • Presumption of Parental Involvement in Child Arrangements 13 Mar 2024

    I am grateful to have the chance to speak in the Chamber on the presumption of parental involvement in child arrangements. When I was elected, I made a promise to be an advocate for victims of domestic abuse. At that time, I had no idea that the court proceedings between my ex-husband and me would continue for another four years, restricting my ability to raise publicly the horrors of the...
  • Presumption of Parental Involvement in Child Arrangements 13 Mar 2024

    I thank my right hon. Friend. Despite the landmark ruling that I achieved, my time within the family court system was far from over. Despite the Court confirming that my child’s father was abusive and a rapist, it was decided that contact should continue through a contact centre and that I should pay for 50% of the cost of that contact. I could not believe that anyone felt my child, whom I...
  • Presumption of Parental Involvement in Child Arrangements 13 Mar 2024

    I thank my hon. Friend, and I absolutely agree with his point. Domestic abuse is something that happens behind closed doors. If people do not speak out about it, perpetrators will know that it is going to stay behind closed doors. That is why I agreed to the publication of my judgment, in the hope that it will encourage more people to speak out and that it will help future victims and...

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Last updated: 18 Mar 2024.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Name of donor: JCB
Address of donor: Lakeside Works, Denstone, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5JP
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 towards the costs of Burton Job Fair
Date received: 23 August 2023
Date accepted: 23 August 2023
Donor status: company, registration 01446754
(Registered 14 September 2023)
8. Miscellaneous
From 24 January 2020, member of the Town Board for Burton upon Trent. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 21 January 2020)

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