About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Iain Duncan Smith) represents you, and all of the people who live in Chingford and Woodford Green, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green

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

Also represented Chingford

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• https://facebook.com/iainduncansmithmp

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Iain Duncan Smith campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Justice
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Treasury
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Home Office
• Hull Prison: Crimes of Violence
• Wormwood Scrubs Prison: Drugs
• Secondments
• Hull Prison: Self-harm
• Jimmy Lai

Other offices held in the past

• The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (12 May 2010 to 19 Mar 2016)
• Leader of HM Official Opposition (12 Sep 2001 to 6 Nov 2003)
• Leader of the Conservative Party (12 Sep 2001 to 6 Nov 2003)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (15 Jun 1999 to 12 Sep 2001)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (11 Jun 1997 to 15 Jun 1999)
• Member, Standards and Privileges Committee (23 Oct 1996 to 21 Mar 1997)
• Member, Members' Interests Committee (24 Mar 1995 to 8 Nov 1995)
• Member, Standards in Public Life Committee (16 Nov 1994 to 8 Nov 1995)
• Member, Health and Social Care Committee (24 Jan 1994 to 10 Jul 1995)
• Member, Administration Committee (11 Jan 1994 to 21 Mar 1997)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 20 Mar 2025

  My condolences to my right hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman). Interestingly, his comments and his eulogy to his father at this particular time bring into stark relief the absence in too many families of positive male role models for many young boys growing up. We all ought to be concerned about that. We have a real problem at the moment, because we...

• Winter Fuel Payment 19 Mar 2025

  The Treasury always says to every new Government, “We have this jolly good idea. Just get rid of the winter fuel payment and save yourselves a lot of money.” We looked at that when I was in the Department and eventually rejected it based on two elements of the impact assessment. First, there was the point about those who were right on the cusp of poverty—80% of them, as has been...

• Winter Fuel Payment 19 Mar 2025

  indicated dissent.

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