About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matt Rodda) represents you, and all of the people who live in Reading Central, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Reading Central

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

Also represented Reading East

Social Media

• @mattrodda.bsky.social
• @MattRodda
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Science
• Innovation and Technology
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Merchant Shipping: Pensions
• Reading Prison: Sales
• Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
• Royal Berkshire Hospital: Construction
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport: ICT

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Football Governance Bill Committee ( 8 May 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Member, Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 20 Feb 2024)
• Shadow Minister (AI and Intellectual Property) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• Member, Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (26 Jan 2022 to 2 Feb 2022)
• Member, Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 27 Jan 2022)
• Member, Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee ( 8 Jun 2021 to 15 Jun 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Pensions) ( 7 Jan 2021 to 5 Sep 2023)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (Buses) (12 Jan 2018 to 7 Jan 2021)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Football Governance Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Pension Schemes Bill 7 Jul 2025

  My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that there is a growing consensus in the pensions industry? Indeed, some of the trade bodies have been heavily involved in promoting the idea of consolidation for some time, and perhaps what he is describing is a growing body of opinion in the pensions industry.

• Pension Schemes Bill 7 Jul 2025

  My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. She has convened a very powerful group—indeed, the former City Minister played an active part in its most recent meeting. Does she agree that this Bill is particularly important for our high streets and many other entrepreneurs in our local communities, to try to find new forms of investment to help them boost business?

• Pension Schemes Bill 7 Jul 2025

  My hon. Friend is making a wonderful speech. May I also say that there is a wonderful pig from Berkshire as well, which has distinctive markings? However, moving away from animals, perhaps my hon. Friend wishes to say a little more about the success of the type of legislation she describes in Canada and Australia. It has delivered real value in those countries’ economies and real value for...

More of Matt Rodda’s recent appearances

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