About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Rosie Duffield) represents you, and all of the people who live in Canterbury, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Independent MP for Canterbury

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

Party was Labour until 28 Sep 2024

• Personal website

Social Media

• @RosieDuffield1
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• HIV Infection: Drugs
• Care Leavers: Housing
• South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: Standards
• Agriculture: Subsidies

Currently held offices

• Member, Women and Equalities Committee (since 25 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 1 May 2024)
• Member, Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (17 Apr 2024 to 24 Apr 2024)
• Member, Pet Abduction Bill Committee (24 Jan 2024 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill Committee (22 Jun 2022 to 26 Jun 2022)
• Member, Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (26 Jan 2022 to 2 Feb 2022)
• Member, Animal (Penalty Notices) Bill Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 8 Dec 2021)
• Member, Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 25 Nov 2021)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (14 Apr 2020 to 31 May 2020)
• Member, Women and Equalities Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 May 2020)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee ( 4 Jun 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Women and Equalities Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 4 Jun 2018)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Julian Brazier
• David Crouch
• Leslie Thomas
• John White
• William Wayland
• Ronald McNeill
• George Anderson
• Francis Bennett-Goldney
• John Heaton
• Robert Laurie
• Alfred Gathorne-Hardy
• Lewis Majendie
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• Theodore Brinckman
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• John Huddleston
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• William Somerville
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• William Somerville
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• Charles Lushington
• William Somerville
• Henry Gipps
• Henry Butler-Johnstone
• Frederick Romilly
• Albert Conyngham
• James Bradshaw
• George Smythe
• James Bradshaw
• George Smythe
• James Bradshaw
• Albert Conyngham
• Frederick Villiers
• Albert Conyngham
• Richard Cowper
• Stephen Lushington
• Richard Cowper
• Fordwich
• Richard Watson
• Richard Cowper
• Stephen Lushington
• Edward Bligh
• Stephen Lushington
• Edward Bligh
• Stephen Lushington
• Edward Bligh
• John Baker
• Stephen Lushington
• John Baker
• Edward Taylor
• Samuel Sawbridge
• John Baker
• Samuel Sawbridge
• George Watson
• James Simmons
• John Baker
• George Watson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Pet Abduction Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Fire Safety Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Fisheries Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Wombs: Transplant Surgery 21 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of including wombs on the list of routine organ donations included for transplant by the NHS on women's health.

• Treasury: Topical Questions 20 May 2025

  If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

• Treasury: Topical Questions 20 May 2025

  Westminster is once again buzzing with the latest U-turns, speculation and briefings over the Chancellor’s policies on the winter fuel allowance and the two-child benefit cap. There is less of a buzz for the visitors to Canterbury food bank, however, which last month distributed enough food to make 13,545 meals, in a 47% rise on the same period last year. Will the Chancellor end the serious...

More of Rosie Duffield’s recent appearances

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