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Robert Halfon

Conservative MP for Harlow

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10th June 2020 onwards

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Robert Halfon’s voting in Parliament

Robert Halfon is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.

However, Robert Halfon sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

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Robert Halfon has occasionally rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

  • Awarding Qualifications in 2021 and 2022 22 Jul 2021

    Mr Deputy Speaker, may I quickly take the chance to thank Mr Speaker, you, all the staff of the House of Commons and the other Deputy Speakers for the incredible way in which Parliament has gone on and enabled people who have been shielding to participate? It has been a miracle. I would have liked to say that had I been called in business questions to the Leader of the House. Of course, we...

  • Awarding Qualifications in 2021 and 2022 22 Jul 2021

    Mr Deputy Speaker, may I quickly take the chance to thank Mr Speaker, you, all the staff of the House of Commons and the other Deputy Speakers for the incredible way in which Parliament has gone on and enabled people who have been shielding to participate? It has been a miracle. I would have liked to say that had I been called in business questions to the Leader of the House. Of course, we...

  • Public Health England: Relocation to Harlow 12 Jul 2021

    It is a huge honour to be doing this debate under your chairmanship today, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I thank Mr Speaker for granting this debate. Today I would like to update the House on the desperate need for the creation of a new state-of-the-art public health science campus that is fit for the 21st century. This debate is timely as we seek to recover from the devastating covid-19 pandemic...

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Profile

Conservative MP for Harlow

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

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Topics of interest

Robert Halfon campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Education
  • Treasury
  • Business
  • Innovation and Skills
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  • Hospitals: Parking
  • Departmental Conferences
  • Apprentices
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies
  • House of Commons: Apprentices

Currently held offices

  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 20 May 2020)
  • Chair, Education Committee (since 27 Jan 2020)
  • Chair, Education Committee (since 27 Jan 2020)

Other offices held in the past

  • Chair, Education Committee (27 Jan 2020 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Chair, Education Committee (27 Jan 2020 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system (13 Feb 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (6 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Chair, Education Committee (12 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Chair, Education Committee (12 Jul 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Minister of State (Department of Education) (Apprenticeships and Skills) (17 Jul 2016 to 12 Jun 2017)
  • Minister without Portfolio (8 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
  • Member, Public Administration Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 12 May 2014)

Previous MPs in this constituency

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 26 Jul 2021.

1. Employment and earnings
Payments from Ipsos MORI, 3 Thomas More Square, London E1W 1YW, for completing surveys:
5 August 2020, received £250 for a survey completed on 30 July 2020. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 01 September 2020)
18 December 2020, received £200 for a survey completed on 7 December 2020. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 04 January 2021)
14 September 2020, received £125 from The Catholic Herald, Herald House, 15 Lamb's Passage, Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TQ, for an article. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 21 October 2020)
30 November 2020, £350 paid directly to a local educational organisation by Learning & Skills Events Consultancy and Training Limited, Swaleside Grange, Green End, Asenby, Thirsk YO7 3QX, for speaking at a webinar event. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 10 December 2020)
23 June 2021, received £225 from the Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT, for an article. Hours: 3 hrs. (Registered 16 July 2021)
2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
Name of donor: John Fearon
Address of donor: private

Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 to my local association's fighting fund

Donor status: individual

(Registered 24 November 2020)
8. Miscellaneous
From 29 January 2020, Board of the Harlow Growth Board (Stronger Towns Fund). (Registered 09 March 2020)
From 20 May 2021, a Commissioner on the Times Education Commission, which has been set up by the Times Newspapers Ltd to examine the education system in the UK and propose recommendations for its reform. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 24 May 2021)

View the history of this MP’s entries in the Register

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