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
• Question
• Department for Work and Pensions: Equality

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

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 10 - No obligation to provide assistance etc 16 May 2025

  Will my hon. Friend give way?

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 10 - No obligation to provide assistance etc 16 May 2025

  I am one of those people who is against the Bill, not in principle but for the reasons set out brilliantly by many articulate Labour Members. When my constituents ask what I think about this, I have no way of telling them; there is no way for me to get into the nuance of my position on it, because there has been no time to have a proper debate, and so many Members will now be unable to say a...

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 10 - No obligation to provide assistance etc 16 May 2025

  Will the hon. Member give way?

More of Neil O'Brien’s recent appearances

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