Robert Courts

The Solicitor-General

Conservative MP for Witney

@robertcourts

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Recent appearances

  • Written Answers — Attorney General: Attorney General: Domestic Visits 14 Mar 2024

    I refer the Hon Member to my response to UIN 17533 tabled on Wednesday 13 March 2024.
  • Attorney General: Victims of Crime 14 Mar 2024

    The Crown Prosecution Service is transforming the way that it supports victims. The victim transformation programme will roll out this spring; under it, for example, every rape victim will receive an invitation to meet their prosecution team before their case goes to trial.
  • Attorney General: Victims of Crime 14 Mar 2024

    My hon. Friend raises the absolutely key point, which is the support given to victims. The programmes that the CPS is rolling out include a programme for closer working between the police and the CPS, to support victims. He will be pleased to know that in the rolling year to September 2023, the CPS prosecuted 12,508 hate crime offences, with a charge rate of 86% and a conviction rate of 84%,...

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Conservative MP for Witney

Entered the House of Commons on 20 October 2016 — Byelection

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Topics of interest

  • Ministry of Defence
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Department for Transport
  • Department for Communities and Local Government
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Agriculture: Subsidies
  • A400M Aircraft: Procurement
  • Military Aircraft: Sales
  • Gaza: Israel
  • Business: Government Assistance

Currently held offices

  • The Solicitor-General (since 7 Dec 2023)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (14 Nov 2023 to 27 Feb 2024)
  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (25 Oct 2023 to 7 Dec 2023)
  • Chair, Defence Committee (25 Oct 2023 to 12 Dec 2023)
  • Chair, Defence Committee (25 Oct 2023 to 12 Dec 2023)
  • Member, Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] Committee (11 Jan 2023 to 17 Jan 2023)
  • Member, Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill Committee ( 7 Dec 2022 to 7 Dec 2022)
  • Member, Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee ( 7 Dec 2022 to 14 Dec 2022)
  • Member, Defence Committee (25 Oct 2022 to 25 Oct 2023)
  • Member, Defence Sub-Committee (25 Oct 2022 to 12 Dec 2023)
  • Member, Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill [Lords] Committee ( 4 Feb 2021 to 9 Feb 2021)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) ( 8 Sep 2020 to 20 Sep 2022)
  • Member, International Trade Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 9 Nov 2020)
  • Member, Justice Committee (21 Jan 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Transport Committee ( 5 Nov 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Backbench Business Committee (16 Oct 2017 to 19 Mar 2018)
  • Member, Backbench Business Committee (30 Jan 2017 to 3 May 2017)

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Name of donor: Charles McDowell Properties Ltd
Address of donor: 104 Whiteheads Grove, London SW3 3HJ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Room hire and food for a fundraising event on my behalf, value £2,202.14
Date received: 20 November 2023
Date accepted: 20 November 2023
Donor status: company, registration 04982959
(Registered 18 December 2023)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: Reaction Engines Ltd
Address of donor: Culham Campus, Abingdon OX14 3DB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Guest of Reaction Engines at the ADS annual dinner, value £520
Date received: 30 January 2024
Date accepted: 30 January 2024
Donor status: company, registration 02413577
(Registered 31 January 2024)
Name of donor: APPG for the Armed Forces
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Seven dinners valued at £45 each; total value £315
Date received: 31 January 2023 to 4 December 2023
Date accepted: 31 January 2023
Donor status: other
(Registered 01 February 2024)
4. Visits outside the UK
Name of donor: March of the Living UK
Address of donor: Schaller House, 44a Albert Road, Hendon, London NW4 2SJ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Accommodation, flights, meals and educational tour, value £2,149
Destination of visit: Poland
Dates of visit: 16-20 April 2023
Purpose of visit: Holocaust education visit to Poland. Visits to museums, historical sites and cultural centres. Attending the March of the Living 2023.
(Registered 09 May 2023)
Name of donor: Virgin Atlantic Ltd
Address of donor: The VHQ, Fleming Way, Crawley RH10 9DF
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Incidental costs of participating in a transatlantic test flight, plus hospitality and hotel for one night in New York, total value £818
Destination of visit: New York
Dates of visit: 28-30 November 2023
Purpose of visit: As part of the Aviation APPG, invited to join the first transatlantic test flight using sustainable aviation fuel. I also worked on this when Minister for Aviation.
(Registered 06 December 2023)
8. Miscellaneous
Member of the Bar of England and Wales, not currently practising. (Registered 18 November 2016)
From 12 February 2020, Chair of the Commons and Lords RAF Association. (Registered 09 March 2020)

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