Matt Western’s voting in Parliament

Matt Western is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.

However, Matt Western sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Matt Western voted for fewer MPs in the House of Commons, while most Labour MPs generally voted against. Show votes

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Matt Western has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: National Security and Investment Bill: Clause 6 - Notifiable acquisitions 1 Dec 2020

  As always, my hon. Friend makes important points. To amplify those, if we had been sitting down and writing this Bill 10 years ago, which would have been a pretty good thing to have done, with hindsight––

• Public Bill Committee: National Security and Investment Bill: Clause 6 - Notifiable acquisitions 1 Dec 2020

  I think I chose my time horizon pretty well. Had we been doing so, we may not have been considering these 17 categories, traffic light systems, underground systems, public transport or railway infrastructure in a way that we have to nowadays because we understand just how interconnected things are. We understand what the threats and risks are from these sorts of investments from possibly...

• Public Bill Committee: National Security and Investment Bill: Clause 3 - Statement about exercise of call-in power 1 Dec 2020

  I am not sure that the Minister has; it is always a pleasure to hear his dulcet tones. In all seriousness, is this not open to interpretation with a change of Secretary of State, in the way that we have seen in the US with a change of President, and how that President chooses to define what national security means?

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Profile

Labour MP for Warwick and Leamington

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

• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Social Media

• @mattwestern_
• https://facebook.com/MattWesternMP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Energy: Housing
• Housing: Heating
• Personal Independence Payment
• *No heading*
• Social Rented Housing: Construction

Currently held offices

• Opposition Whip (Commons) (since 12 Feb 2020)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, International Trade Committee (2 Mar 2020 to 28 Sep 2020)
• 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)

• National Security and Investment Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• 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)