About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matthew Pennycook) represents you, and all of the people who live in Greenwich and Woolwich, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
• @mtpennycook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Matthew Pennycook campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department for Energy and Climate Change
• Department for Levelling Up
• Housing and Communities
• Department for Transport
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Members: Correspondence
• Part-time Employment: EU Law
• Energy: Meters
• Housing: Construction
• Right to Buy Scheme

Currently held offices

• Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (since 9 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Planning and Infrastructure Bill Committee (24 Apr 2025 to 22 May 2025)
• Member, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (16 Oct 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
• Minister of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) ( 6 Jul 2024 to 9 Jul 2024)
• Member, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (10 Jan 2024 to 30 Jan 2024)
• Member, Renters (Reform) Bill Committee ( 8 Nov 2023 to 28 Nov 2023)
• Member, Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL] Committee (23 Nov 2022 to 29 Nov 2022)
• Member, Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (15 Jun 2022 to 20 Oct 2022)
• Shadow Minister (Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 25 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (10 Apr 2020 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 May 2020)
• Shadow Minister (Exiting the European Union) ( 9 Oct 2016 to 25 Sep 2019)
• Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 17 Oct 2016)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Nick Raynsford

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Planning and Infrastructure Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Renters (Reform) Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (26 out of 27)
• Social Housing (Regulation) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Fisheries Bill Committee (2 out of 11)
• Energy BILL Committee (7 out of 14)
• Housing and Planning Bill Committee (18 out of 20)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Social Rented Housing: Service Charges 8 Jul 2025

  By law, variable service charges must be reasonable. Overcharging through service charges is completely unacceptable. Should tenants of private registered providers of social housing wish to contest the reasonableness of their service charges, they may make an application to the appropriate tribunal. The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 includes measures designed to designed to drive...

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Right to Buy Scheme 8 Jul 2025

  The government’s Right to Buy discounts review, which can be found on gov.uk here, was published alongside the Budget on 30 October 2024. It estimated that returning maximum cash discounts to pre-2012 levels would lead to a long-term average of approximately 1,700 Right to Buy sales per year, generating, on average, approximately £250 million of annual net receipts. As confirmed at that...

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission 8 Jul 2025

  As the application in question is before ministers in MHCLG to determine, it would not be appropriate to comment on specific elements of it.

More of Matthew Pennycook’s recent appearances