About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Sammy Wilson) represents you, and all of the people who live in East Antrim, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

DUP MP for East Antrim, Former DUP MLA for East Antrim

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 — General election

Left the Assembly on 11 August 2015 — Resigned

Also represented Belfast East

• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @eastantrimmp
• https://facebook.com/SammyWilsonMP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Sammy Wilson campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Northern Ireland
• Treasury
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Education and Library Boards
• Police Service of Northern Ireland
• Fuels: Tax Evasion
• Community Restorative Justice
• Motorcycles: Driving Licences

Currently held offices

• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (since 24 Feb 2025)
• Member, Speaker's Conference (2024) Committee (since 18 Dec 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee (23 Apr 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• Member, Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 17 Nov 2021)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Brexit) ( 1 Jul 2017 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Work and Pensions) ( 8 May 2015 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Treasury) ( 8 May 2015 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Education) ( 8 May 2015 to 8 Jun 2017)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Treasury) (12 May 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Education) (12 May 2010 to 30 Mar 2012)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Treasury) ( 1 Jun 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Transport Committee (10 Nov 2008 to 9 Nov 2009)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Innovation, Universities and Skills) ( 1 Jun 2007 to 1 Jun 2008)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government) ( 1 Jun 2007 to 1 Jun 2009)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Education) ( 1 Jun 2007 to 1 Jun 2010)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 10 Nov 2008)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government) ( 1 Jun 2005 to 1 Jun 2007)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Education) ( 1 Jun 2003 to 1 Jun 2007)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Roy Beggs

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Education and Adoption Bill Committee (0 out of 10)
• Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Childcare Payments Bill Committee (5 out of 9)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Finance Bill Committee (0 out of 5)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 9)
• Finance Bill Committee (0 out of 4)
• Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill Committee (0 out of 4)
• Finance (No. 4) Bill Committee (0 out of 14)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (1 out of 14)
• Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Gambling: Prison Sentences 11 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of current provisions to support people serving a custodial sentences who are experiencing gambling harms.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Asylum: Legal Costs 10 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of providing legal advice to immigrants seeking asylum in each of the last five years.

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Pakistan: Ahmadiyya 10 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made recent representations to his Pakistani counterpart on the arrest of Ahmadi Muslims in Daska, Pakistan, for gathering in their local mosque on 28 February 2025.

More of Sammy Wilson’s recent appearances