About your Member of Parliament

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

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Profile

Conservative MP for South Suffolk

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @jc4southsuffolk
• https://facebook.com/james4southsuffolk

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

James Cartlidge campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Transport
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Treasury
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Defence: Expenditure
• Armed Forces: Housing
• Ukraine: Military Aid
• British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty
• Strategic Defence Review

Currently held offices

• Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (since 8 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (21 Apr 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (15 Nov 2022 to 6 Jun 2023)
• The Exchequer Secretary (28 Oct 2022 to 21 Apr 2023)
• Member, Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (12 Oct 2022 to 20 Oct 2022)
• Member, Judicial Review and Courts Bill (27 Oct 2021 to 23 Nov 2021)
• Assistant Whip (19 Sep 2021 to 7 Jul 2022)
• Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (19 Sep 2021 to 7 Jul 2022)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Public Accounts Commission ( 4 Nov 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Tim Yeo

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (6 out of 27)
• Judicial Review and Courts Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• National Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Savings (Government Contributions) Bill Committee (3 out of 5)
• Trade Union Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Energy BILL Committee (7 out of 14)

Recent appearances

• Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Clause 4 - Commissioner’s functions in relation to general service welfare 21 Jan 2025

  I congratulate and thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the passage of the Bill and served on the Bill Committee. As I said on Second Reading, we recognise that the Government have a clear mandate for this piece of legislation, which has the worthy goal of improving day-to-day service life in our armed forces. We strongly share that goal and want the Bill to...

• Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: New Clause 1 - Applicability to prospective recruits 21 Jan 2025

  Exactly.

• Written Answers — Treasury: Defence: Expenditure 21 Jan 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2024 to Question 22961 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will take place before June 2025.

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