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Richard Burden is a former MP for Birmingham, Northfield.

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Former Labour MP for Birmingham, Northfield

Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 6 November 2019 — Dissolved for election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @RichardBurdenMP
• https://facebook.com/richardburden4northfield

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Richard Burden campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Transport
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Transport
• Department for International Development
• Israel
• Occupied Territories
• Middle East
• Telephone Services
• Israel: Palestinians

Other offices held in the past

• Member, International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (13 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, International Development Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (13 Oct 2016 to 8 Jun 2017)
• Member, International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact ( 3 Dec 2013 to 31 Dec 2013)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Chair, International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (31 Oct 2012 to 3 Dec 2013)
• Chair, International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (31 Oct 2012 to 3 Dec 2013)
• Chair, West Midlands Regional Select Committee (12 Mar 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Chair, West Midlands Regional Select Committee (12 Mar 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, West Midlands Regional Select Committee ( 3 Mar 2009 to 12 Mar 2009)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 4 Nov 2013)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 4 Nov 2013)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Mar 2008 to 4 Nov 2013)
• Member, International Development Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 4 Nov 2013)
• Member, Trade & Industry Committee (16 Jul 2001 to 12 Jul 2005)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Roger King
• John Spellar
• Jocelyn Cadbury
• Raymond Carter
• Donald Chapman
• Albert Blackburn

Future MPs in this constituency

• Gary Sambrook

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Infrastructure Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Health and Social Care Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
• Water Bill Committee (8 out of 11)
• Copyright, etc. and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Social Security Fraud Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• The Economy 24 Oct 2019

  Last week, union representatives from Rolls-Royce came to see my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Jack Dromey) and me. Rolls-Royce is one of the main anchors of the UK’s aerospace sector and has operations in no less than nine EU member states. They came to tell us about their worries, the most direct and immediate being the disastrous impact that a no-deal Brexit would...

• British Children: Syria 22 Oct 2019

  The Minister has acknowledged that there is absolutely no time to lose. The current ceasefire presents a window of opportunity to move on these repatriations, but does the Minister accept that access to the two camps where the majority of UK national children are living was possible, as was repatriation, before the ceasefire and is likely to be possible for a little while afterwards? I...

• Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Members: Correspondence 21 Oct 2019

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter to the Prime Minister of 12 September 2019 from the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield and other hon. Members and Peers on Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement that he intends to annex the Jordan Valley to Israel.

More of Richard Burden’s recent appearances