About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Toby Perkins) represents you, and all of the people who live in Chesterfield, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Profile

Labour MP for Chesterfield

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @tobyperkinsmp
• https://facebook.com/TobyPerkins4Chesterfield

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Toby Perkins campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Ministry of Defence
• Apprentices
• Members: Correspondence
• Insolvency
• T-levels
• Public Houses

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Chair, Environmental Audit Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Environmental Audit Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (Nature and Rural Affairs) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill Committee (15 Mar 2023 to 23 Mar 2023)
• Member, Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill Committee (24 Nov 2021 to 7 Dec 2021)
• Member, Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill Committee (22 Sep 2021 to 27 Oct 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Education) (10 Apr 2020 to 5 Sep 2023)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 May 2020)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee ( 8 May 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, International Trade Committee (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Shadow Minister (Defence) (18 Sep 2015 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) ( 7 Oct 2011 to 18 Sep 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Education) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 2 Nov 2010)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Paul Holmes
• Tony Benn
• Eric Varley
• George Benson
• Robert Conant
• George Benson
• Barnet Kenyon
• James Haslam
• Thomas Bayley
• Alfred Barnes

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parking (Code of Practice) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• Deregulation Bill Committee (18 out of 18)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Drinks: Packaging 11 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging scheme that will be introduced in April 2025 on the drinks industry.

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hospitality Industry: Packaging 11 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the definition of household waste under the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging scheme to apply exemptions to products consumed and disposed of within hospitality venues.

• Backbench Business: English Football: Financial Sustainability and Governance — [Karl Turner in the Chair] 6 Mar 2025

  As I said in my brief intervention on my hon. Friend the Member for Earley and Woodley (Yuan Yang), I have been contacted by Chesterfield football club, which is very keen that its support for the Football Governance Bill be known. I would like to start by expressing the sadness that everyone in Chesterfield feels at the news that the club’s owner, Phil Kirk, has inoperable cancer and is...

More of Toby Perkins’s recent appearances