About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (John Lamont) represents you, and all of the people who live in Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, Former Conservative MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

Entered the Scottish Parliament on 3 May 2007 — Election

Left the Scottish Parliament on 4 May 2017 — Resigned

Also represented Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire; Roxburgh and Berwickshire

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @John2Win
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Scotland Office
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Treasury
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Coronavirus: Scotland
• Local Growth Deals: Scottish Borders
• Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
• Armed Conflict: Children

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (since 16 Dec 2024)
• Member, Petitions Committee (since 25 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland ( 8 Jul 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (27 Oct 2022 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Member, Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 17 Nov 2021)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee ( 4 May 2020 to 22 May 2023)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (27 Jan 2020 to 24 Jan 2023)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (27 Jan 2020 to 24 Jan 2023)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (30 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (30 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Calum Kerr
• Michael Moore

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Telecommunications (Security) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (6 out of 7)

Recent appearances

• Trade Negotiations 8 May 2025

  Thank you, Mr Speaker, for dragging the Minister to the House tonight to explain the terms of the deal. After hammering farms with the family farm tax, it now looks like Labour is selling our farmers down the river, allowing cheap, low-quality imports from the United States. President Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture has said: “This deal puts our great American Agricultural Producers...

• Trade Negotiations 8 May 2025

  Thank you, Mr Speaker, for dragging the Minister to the House tonight to explain the terms of the deal. After hammering farms with the family farm tax, it now looks like Labour is selling our farmers down the river, allowing cheap, low-quality imports from the United States. President Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture has said: “This deal puts our great American Agricultural Producers...

• Backbench Business: Small Abattoirs — [Sir Desmond Swayne in the Chair] 8 May 2025

  The Minister is absolutely right to highlight the importance of supporting local food production and ensuring that consumers here in the UK buy local. I just wonder how that stacks up with what President Trump has just said, which is that this new UK-US trade deal “includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically...

More of John Lamont’s recent appearances

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