About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matt Western) represents you, and all of the people who live in Warwick and Leamington, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington

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

Social Media

• @mattwestern_
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Students: Loans
• Energy: Housing
• Turing Scheme
• Office for Students
• Medicine: Students

Currently held offices

• Member, Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Chair, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 17 Dec 2024)
• Chair, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 17 Dec 2024)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (since 27 Nov 2024)
• Member, Business and Trade Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) ( 2 Dec 2024 to 17 Dec 2024)
• Member, Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill Committee (15 Mar 2023 to 23 Mar 2023)
• Member, Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill Committee (24 Nov 2021 to 7 Dec 2021)
• Member, Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee ( 7 Sep 2021 to 22 Sep 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Education) ( 8 Mar 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, International Trade Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 28 Sep 2020)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (12 Feb 2020 to 14 May 2021)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 5 Feb 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, International Trade Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Chris White
• James Plaskitt
• Dudley Smith
• John Hobson
• Anthony Eden
• Ernest Pollock
• Thomas Berridge
• Alfred Lyttelton
• Arthur Peel

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Chairman, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (0 out of 6)
• Chairman, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Chairman, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• National Security and Investment Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
• Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Smart Meters Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Trade Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Business and Trade Committee 12 Jun 2025

  I thank my right hon. Friend for his excellent chairship of the Committee. He spoke about the grand challenges we face. We heard in the evidence sessions how we have such structural challenges—we have just heard about energy, and we could say the same about skills particularly —so could he say a bit more about some of the work being done and the need for a whole-of-Government approach?

• Business of the House 12 Jun 2025

  At the height of the pandemic, Mr Speaker, you may recall the establishment of the Rosalind Franklin laboratory and national testing facility, which we were promised would be retained after the pandemic for more general testing. Sadly, it was unceremoniously put up for sale on Rightmove a couple of years ago. May we have a debate on, or a review into, the provision of diagnostic testing more...

• Strategic Defence Review 2 Jun 2025

  Anyone who heard Carsten Breuer, Germany’s Chief of Defence, speak at the weekend will have found his words deeply sobering, so I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the SDR, which is modernising our defence, from Atlantic Bastion to the transformation of our defence and a tech-driven approach. I particularly welcome the cyber and electromagnetic command. He spoke of a stronger deterrence....

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