About your former Member of Parliament

Mr John Wheatley is a former MP for Glasgow Shettleston.

What you can do

• Find out more about your MP, including their voting summary and recent speeches.

Profile

Former MP for Glasgow Shettleston

Entered the House of Commons on 15 November 1922 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 May 1930 — Died

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Thomas Adair

Future MPs in this constituency

• John McGovern
• Myer Galpern
• David Marshall

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL. 8 Apr 1930

  The right hon. Gentleman who has just addressed the House has only himself to blame if certain Members do not take his remarks too seriously. He devoted a considerable portion of his speech, as he usually does, to assuring us that rising subsidies and rising prices go together, and that if you want prices to fall you should abolish the subsidy. The right hon. Gentleman knows quite well that,...

• Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL. 8 Apr 1930

  Yes, in order to enable owners of houses to put up rents. That is what the right hon. Gentleman really means by amending. It does not mean that the Act should be amended to allow landlords to reduce rents. They do not require legislation to do that. Landlords are perfectly free in that respect. If the tenants were as free to reduce rents we should soon have wholesale reductions. The right...

• Orders of the Day — HOUSING (No. 2) BILL. 7 Apr 1930

  Will the local authority be free to provide an inferior house?

More of Mr John Wheatley’s recent appearances