About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matt Vickers) represents you, and all of the people who live in Stockton West, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Stockton West

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

Also represented Stockton South

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Treasury
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Transport
• Retail Trade: Food
• Driverless Vehicles
• Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Employment: Disability

Currently held offices

• Member, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (since 20 Mar 2025)
• Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire) (since 19 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (12 Feb 2025 to 18 Mar 2025)
• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (15 May 2024 to 21 May 2024)
• Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (10 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)
• Member, Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (15 Jun 2022 to 20 Oct 2022)
• Member, Public Order Bill Committee (25 May 2022 to 21 Jun 2022)
• Member, Justice Committee (15 Mar 2022 to 27 Jun 2022)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (15 Mar 2022 to 27 Jun 2022)
• Member, Glue Traps (Offences) Bill Committee (12 Jan 2022 to 19 Jan 2022)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (19 Oct 2021 to 21 Jun 2022)
• Member, Petitions Committee ( 1 Mar 2021 to 14 May 2024)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union ( 2 Mar 2020 to 16 Jan 2021)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Crime and Policing Bill Committee (12 out of 14)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance No. 2 Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Public Order Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill Committee (21 out of 27)
• Glue Traps (Offences) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 41 - Soliciting Prostitution for Rent Offence 8 May 2025

  I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause would introduce a new statutory offence of soliciting prostitution in exchange for rent by inserting proposed new section 52A into the Sexual Offences Act 2003. It would criminalise the act of causing, inciting or attempting to cause or incite someone to engage in prostitution in return for free accommodation or discounted...

• Public Bill Committee: Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 38 - Police access to the UK tobacco track and trace system 8 May 2025

  I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause would mandate that the Secretary of State, through regulations, grant police access to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’ tobacco track and trace system. Such access would enable law enforcement to determine the provenance of tobacco products sold by retailers, specifically to identify whether those products were stolen....

• Public Bill Committee: Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 33 - Defence to criminal damage 8 May 2025

  I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 33 seeks to amend section 5(3) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971, which currently states: “For the purposes of this section it is immaterial whether a belief is justified or not if it is honestly held.” New clause 33 would replace that with: “For the purposes of this section, a belief must be both honestly held and...

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