About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Mel Stride) represents you, and all of the people who live in Central Devon, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Central Devon

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @meljstride

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Mel Stride campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Work and Pensions
• Environment Food and Rural Affairs
• Treasury
• Northern Ireland
• Health
• Winter Fuel Payment
• Pension Credit
• Parish Councils: Bank Services
• Hill Farming
• Tourism

Currently held offices

• Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (since 4 Nov 2024)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (since 27 Jan 2020)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( 8 Jul 2024 to 4 Nov 2024)
• The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (25 Oct 2022 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Chair, Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 26 Oct 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 26 Oct 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Committee Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 20 Jun 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Committee Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 20 Jun 2022)
• Member, Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 17 Nov 2021)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (20 May 2020 to 25 Oct 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (27 Jan 2020 to 25 Oct 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (27 Jan 2020 to 25 Oct 2022)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (27 Jan 2020 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (23 Oct 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (23 Oct 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Chair, Treasury Committee (23 Oct 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (23 May 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Public Accounts Commission (23 May 2019 to 24 Jul 2019)
• Member, House of Commons Commission (23 May 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (23 May 2019 to 24 Jul 2019)
• Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General (12 Jun 2017 to 23 May 2019)
• Comptroller (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons) (18 Jul 2016 to 12 Jun 2017)
• The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury (13 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (15 Jul 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 28 Nov 2011)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• National Insurance Contributions(Rate Ceilings) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• Energy Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Sports Grounds Safety Authority Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Public Finances: Borrowing Costs 9 Jan 2025

  (Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if she will make a statement on the growing pressure of borrowing costs on the public finances.

• Public Finances: Borrowing Costs 9 Jan 2025

  The performance we have just seen was a slightly anxious and breathless one, which leads me to the question: where is the Chancellor? It is a bitter regret that at this difficult time and given these serious issues, she herself is nowhere to be seen. In the last 48 hours, borrowing costs have reached a 27-year high, and it is the Chancellor’s decisions that have led us here. Before the...

• National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: New Clause 1 - Review of the impact of the Act 17 Dec 2024

  This is not a Bill, but a Shakespearean tragedy. It is the “Hamlet” of our age. While the Labour party was tipping the poison into the ears of the electorate, it was assuring them in its manifesto that it would do nothing with national insurance. Look what it has done. This will hit inflation—all forecasts show it higher every year than it would have been under us back in the spring....

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