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

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum 18 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list by (a) age, (b) gender and (c) country the number of asylum claims granted protection to (i) asylum seekers who crossed the English Channel by sea and (ii) all asylum seekers in each of the last five years.

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum 18 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers processed had an application for asylum granted in another country in each of the last five years.

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Families 18 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers subsequently submitted an application for family reunion by (a) age, (b) gender and (c) country of origin in each of the last five years; and how many family members were included in each application.

More of Gavin Robinson’s recent appearances