About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Gavin Robinson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Belfast East, 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

DUP MP for Belfast East

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @grobinsondup
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Gavin Robinson campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Defence
• Home Office
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
• Detention Centres
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Aviation: Training
• Cayman Islands: Taxation

Currently held offices

• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 4 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 1 May 2024)
• Member, Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill (Formerly known as International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill) Committee (17 Apr 2024 to 24 Apr 2024)
• Member, British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (20 Mar 2024 to 17 Apr 2024)
• Member, High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee ( 6 Mar 2024 to 13 Mar 2024)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee ( 4 Jul 2022 to 23 Apr 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (28 Jun 2021 to 6 Jul 2021)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (31 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Oct 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee (12 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Defence Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Defence) ( 1 Jul 2017 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 5 Dec 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Dec 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (28 Oct 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee ( 6 Jul 2015 to 5 Dec 2016)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Justice) ( 8 May 2015 to 8 Jun 2017)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Home Affairs) ( 8 May 2015 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights) ( 8 May 2015 to 8 Jun 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Naomi Long
• Peter Robinson
• William Craig
• Stanley McMaster
• Alan McKibbin
• Thomas Cole
• Henry Harland
• Herbert Dixon
• Robert Sharman-Crawford
• Robert McMordie
• Gustav Wolff
• Edward De Cobain

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Spending Review 2025 11 Jun 2025

  I thank the Chancellor for engaging productively in the discussions about sustainable budgets for Northern Ireland, for the willingness to negotiate further and for the recognition that our need levels should be met. I thank her for that engagement and for the allocations to Northern Ireland for specific community projects that have been advanced by us. She has chosen through this allocation...

• Strategic Defence Review 2 Jun 2025

  The Secretary of State will know that the Democratic Unionist party, and the people we are privileged to represent from Northern Ireland, are hugely supportive of our armed forces. He should know that as a region, we disproportionately provide more personnel than any other part of our country to those armed forces. I was encouraged to hear him talk about every region and nation of the United...

• Northern Ireland: Veterans: Legal Protections 21 May 2025

  The Secretary of State will know that, as part of a Northern Ireland Affairs Committee inquiry, we have been engaging with victims across Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom to assist them in their quest for some personal closure, truth and justice on legacy. Veterans, like many other victims, have indicated to us that while they are listened to, they have not been heard. Will...

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