Victoria Atkins

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle

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About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Victoria Atkins) represents you, and all of the people who live in Louth and Horncastle, 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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Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle

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

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Topics of interest

Victoria Atkins campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Treasury
  • Department for Transport
  • Agriculture: Grants
  • Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
  • Community Diagnostic Centres
  • Garages and Petrol Stations: Prices
  • Winter Fuel Payment: Louth and Horncastle

Currently held offices

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (since 5 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care ( 8 Jul 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)
  • Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (13 Nov 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
  • Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (10 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)
  • The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (27 Oct 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
  • Member, Women and Equalities Committee (25 Oct 2022 to 15 Nov 2022)
  • Minister for Afghan resettlement (17 Sep 2021 to 8 Mar 2022)
  • The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (16 Sep 2021 to 6 Jul 2022)
  • Member, Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (12 May 2021 to 24 Jun 2021)
  • Minister for Women (16 Jan 2018 to 13 Feb 2020)
  • The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department ( 9 Nov 2017 to 16 Sep 2021)
  • Member, Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee) ( 5 Nov 2015 to 11 Feb 2016)
  • Member, Home Affairs Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 31 Oct 2016)

Previous MPs in this constituency

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Recent appearances

  • Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 7 Mar 2025

    Child Criminal Exploitation (No. 2) Bill: Second Reading – Victoria Atkins. Private Members' Bills
  • Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions 6 Feb 2025

    The head of the Dover Port Health Authority warned the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee this week that if funding is not secured with seven weeks, food security checks at the border will be stopped. That will mean unchecked and potentially dangerous meat appearing on supermarket shelves and in restaurants at a time when there is foot and mouth disease in Germany. When will the...
  • Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions 6 Feb 2025

    I do not think the Secretary of State either understood my question or knows the answer, because I asked him when he will confirm the funding. Compare this relaxed approach with the Prime Minister’s seeming desperation to pay more than the entire DEFRA budget to surrender the Chagos islands. Does the Secretary of State really support taxing British farming families for dying, slashing...

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