About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Neil O'Brien) represents you, and all of the people who live in Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

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

Also represented Harborough

Social Media

• @NeilDotObrien
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Ministry of Justice
• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Prison Sentences
• Social Security Benefits
• Reoffenders: Sentencing
• Schools: Finance
• Sentencing

Currently held offices

• Shadow Minister (Education) (since 4 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Mar 2025 to 20 Mar 2025)
• Member, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care ( 8 Sep 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
• Member, Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (15 Jun 2022 to 11 Jul 2022)
• Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) (19 Sep 2021 to 6 Jul 2022)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (16 Sep 2021 to 19 Sep 2021)
• Member, Standing Orders Committee ( 1 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 21 Jan 2019)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (10 out of 27)
• Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill Committee (2 out of 8)
• Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Stalking Protection Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Tenant Fees Bill Committee (5 out of 5)

Recent appearances

• Backbench Business: Maths: Contribution to the UK — [Martin Vickers in the Chair] 5 Jun 2025

  I congratulate the hon. Member for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (Ian Sollom) on securing this important debate. We have had some fantastic speeches, and any debate in which Johnny Ball gets a shout-out is a good debate in my view. Our profession, politics, is awash with mathematical metaphors. Lyndon Johnson famously said that the first rule of democracy is that you have to be able to...

• Backbench Business: Maths: Contribution to the UK — [Martin Vickers in the Chair] 5 Jun 2025

  I am happy to agree that we can bring maths into many other things, and that is also a fun way of teaching maths. In return, I put back to the hon. Gentleman that there are limits to that. If we want to have more time for something else, we have to say where it is coming from. The improvement in those international league table rankings that I mentioned has not come about as a result of some...

• Backbench Business: Maths: Contribution to the UK — [Martin Vickers in the Chair] 5 Jun 2025

  I congratulate the hon. Member for St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (Ian Sollom) on securing this important debate. We have had some fantastic speeches, and any debate in which Johnny Ball gets a shout-out is a good debate in my view. Our profession, politics, is awash with mathematical metaphors. Lyndon Johnson famously said that the first rule of democracy is that you have to be able to...

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