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Ruth Edwards is a former MP for Rushcliffe.

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Former Conservative MP for Rushcliffe

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

Left the House of Commons on 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• Department for Transport
• Self-employment Income Support Scheme: Females
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• Marine Protected Areas
• Question
• Fishing Vessels: Monitoring

Other offices held in the past

• Assistant Whip (16 Feb 2023 to 25 Apr 2024)
• Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ( 7 Feb 2023 to 16 Feb 2023)
• Member, Business and Trade Committee (25 Oct 2022 to 12 Jun 2023)
• Member, Business and Trade Sub-Committee on National Security and Investment (25 Oct 2022 to 12 Jun 2023)
• Member, Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee ( 2 Mar 2022 to 22 Mar 2022)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 2 Nov 2021)
• Member, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (25 Dec 2012 to 25 Dec 2012)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Kenneth Clarke
• Anthony Gardner
• Martin Redmayne
• Florence Paton
• Ralph Assheton
• Henry Betterton
• Leifchild Jones
• Henry Betterton
• John Ellis
• Leifchild Jones
• John Ellis

Future MPs in this constituency

• James Naish

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Environment Bill Committee (2 out of 22)
• Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Question 23 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme on access to sport for young people.

• Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions 23 May 2024

  Cotgrave football club does a fantastic job of providing access to football for the local community, but it is limited by its current facilities and needs funding from Sport England for a 4G all-weather pitch. To secure that funding, it must qualify as a level 3 club, with facilities for disabled football and a plan to grow women’s football. It would love to do that, but it cannot do it...

• Criminal Justice Bill: New Clause 86 - Creating purported sexual image of adult 15 May 2024

  My hon. Friend has given a wide-ranging opening speech, but I want to press her on one more issue: spiking. First, I thank her for recognising the importance of creating an offence to cover it. We had a spate of spiking attacks in Nottingham, and the stories of the young people affected were chilling. I seek her reassurance that we will create the most robust possible legislation in this...

More of Ruth Edwards’s recent appearances