About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Bridget Phillipson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Houghton and Sunderland South, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @bphillipsonMP
• https://facebook.com/bridgetphillipson

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Bridget Phillipson campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Education
• Treasury
• Defence
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Teachers: Houghton and Sunderland South
• Queen Elizabeth High School
• Schools: Buildings
• Schools: Bassetlaw
• Schools: Houghton and Sunderland South

Currently held offices

• Minister for Women and Equalities (since 8 Jul 2024)
• The Secretary of State for Education (since 5 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Education (29 Nov 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( 6 Apr 2020 to 29 Nov 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 21 Sep 2020)
• Member, Committee of Privileges ( 2 Mar 2020 to 13 May 2020)
• Member, Committee on Standards ( 2 Mar 2020 to 13 May 2020)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (21 Jan 2020 to 11 May 2020)
• Member, European Statutory Instruments Committee (18 Jul 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committee of Privileges (26 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committee on Standards (26 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (10 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (26 Oct 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 18 Sep 2015)
• Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (11 Oct 2010 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Procedure Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 11 Oct 2011)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 4 Nov 2013)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Bus Services Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Defence Reform Bill Committee (6 out of 14)
• Water Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (14 out of 15)
• Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Justice and Security Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Identity Documents Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill Committee (17 out of 20)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)

Recent appearances

• Children’s Social Care 18 Nov 2024

  I can say to the right hon. Lady that we will absolutely do more. We are doing more in four months than the Conservatives did in 14 years. They had 14 years, yet she has the temerity to stand there and carp about the changes that we are bringing in for some of the most vulnerable children in our country. Markets were left to fail, costs were left to soar and, worst of all, children were...

• Children’s Social Care 18 Nov 2024

  My hon. Friend has long championed this cause and brings considerable expertise to the role that she now undertakes as Chair of the Select Committee. I look forward to discussing these issues with her and her Committee in due course. She is right to identify that child poverty is a significant issue in this area. That is why we got the work of the child poverty taskforce under way in August;...

• Children’s Social Care 18 Nov 2024

  The hon. Lady has rightly championed the cause of kinship carers for many years in this House, and I pay tribute to her for drawing attention to this crucial area. The measures we set out in the Budget represent the single biggest investment in kinship care ever made by a Government. This is an important first step, but it is not the only action we need to take in this area. I will, of...

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