About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (James Cleverly) represents you, and all of the people who live in Braintree, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Braintree

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @jamescleverly
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

James Cleverly campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Home Office
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Ministry of Defence
• Asylum: MOD Wethersfield
• Commonwealth Secretariat: Finance
• NHS: Artificial Intelligence
• Cancer: Artificial Intelligence
• UNICEF: Development Aid

Currently held offices

• Member, Education Committee (since 30 Jun 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Home Secretary ( 8 Jul 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
• The Secretary of State for the Home Department (13 Nov 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Foreign Secretary, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ( 6 Sep 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
• The Secretary of State for Education ( 7 Jul 2022 to 6 Sep 2022)
• Minister of State (Minister for Europe) ( 8 Feb 2022 to 7 Jul 2022)
• Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) ( 2 Sep 2020 to 8 Feb 2022)
• Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development) (13 Feb 2020 to 2 Sep 2020)
• Minister without Portfolio (24 Jul 2019 to 13 Feb 2020)
• Co-Chair, Conservative Party (24 Jul 2019 to 13 Feb 2020)
• Party Chair, Conservative Party (24 Jul 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union ( 4 Apr 2019 to 24 Jul 2019)
• Deputy Chair, Conservative Party ( 8 Jan 2018 to 4 Apr 2019)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) ( 6 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, International Trade Committee (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) ( 9 Nov 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Brooks Newmark
• Alan Hurst
• Tony Newton

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Crown Tenancies Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Policing and Crime Bill Committee (6 out of 13)
• Psychoactive Substances Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Driving Instructors (Registration) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: MOD Wethersfield 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to retain existing restrictions on the number of asylum seekers housed at the former RAF Wethersfield site.

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: MOD Wethersfield 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to inform (a) Parliament and (b) the local community prior to any changes to the agreed cap on the number of asylum seekers at the Wethersfield site.

• Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: MOD Wethersfield 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to propose an extension to the commissioning date of the Asylum Reception Centre at the former RAF Wethersfield.

More of James Cleverly’s recent appearances