About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Richard Burgon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Leeds East, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Leeds East

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

Party was Labour until 24 Jul 2024; Independent until 5 Feb 2025

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @richardburgon.bsky.social
• @richardburgon
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Richard Burgon campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department of Health and Social Care
• HM Treasury
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Prison Officers
• Prisons: Contracts
• Legal Aid Scheme
• Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance
• Prisons: Staff

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) ( 6 Jul 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Justice Committee (11 May 2020 to 22 Feb 2021)
• Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (27 Jun 2016 to 6 Apr 2020)
• Shadow Minister (Treasury) (18 Sep 2015 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Member, Justice Committee ( 6 Jul 2015 to 26 Oct 2015)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• George Mudie
• Denis Healey
• James O'Grady
• Henry Cautley
• Thomas Leuty
• John Gane
• Thomas Leuty
• John Gane
• Richard Dawson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Guardianship (Missing Persons) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Prisons and Courts Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Bank of England and Financial Services Bill Committee (6 out of 12)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 11 Jul 2025

  Climate Finance Fund (Fossil Fuels and Pollution) Bill: Second Reading – Richard Burgon. Private Members' Bills

• Prime Minister: Engagements 11 Jun 2025

  Belated birthday greetings to you, Mr Speaker. It is wrong for any Labour Government to try to balance the books on the backs of disabled people, and no Labour Government should ever do it, but it is what the Prime Minister will ask the House to do in just a few weeks’ time. Many of us will not be able to go along with that, because it will mean that people who need assistance to cut up...

• Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories 10 Jun 2025

  I have long called for comprehensive sanctions on Israel in response to its crimes against the Palestinian people, so the sanctions against two far-right Ministers are a step in the right direction, but Israel’s war crimes are about far more than a couple of bad apples, so much, much more needs to be done. When Russia invaded Ukraine, over 2,500 sanctions were rightfully imposed on Russia,...

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