About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Richard Holden) represents you, and all of the people who live in Basildon and Billericay, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Basildon and Billericay

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

Also represented North West Durham

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Cabinet Office
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Foreign Investment in UK: National Security
• Civil Service: Equality
• Armed Forces: Equality
• Civil Servants: Pay
• Cabinet Office: Staff

Currently held offices

• Opposition Whip (Commons) (since 8 Nov 2024)
• Shadow Paymaster General (since 8 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] Committee (13 May 2025 to 15 May 2025)
• Member, Procedure Committee (28 Oct 2024 to 30 Jun 2025)
• Minister without Portfolio (13 Nov 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Member, Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] Committee (11 Jan 2023 to 17 Jan 2023)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (28 Oct 2022 to 13 Nov 2023)
• Member, Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee ( 4 Oct 2022 to 18 Oct 2022)
• Member, Online Safety Bill Committee (18 May 2022 to 28 Jun 2022)
• Member, Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill Committee ( 5 Jan 2022 to 12 Jan 2022)
• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee ( 8 Dec 2021 to 11 Jan 2022)
• Member, Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill Committee ( 8 Dec 2021 to 15 Dec 2021)
• Member, Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee ( 7 Sep 2021 to 22 Sep 2021)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (25 Feb 2021 to 14 Apr 2021)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (22 Feb 2021 to 22 Feb 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 15 Mar 2022)
• Member, European Statutory Instruments Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Baron

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Product Regulation and Metrology Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Online Safety Bill Committee (11 out of 17)
• Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Seafarers’ Wages Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Armed Forces Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  The hon. Gentleman says that the last Labour Government left the country in a fantastic state. As I have mentioned before, they left behind a massive deficit and unemployment higher than when they took office. Does he not understand that a deficit of over 10% of GDP was an horrific legacy to leave in peacetime? Also, unemployment being higher was a betrayal of the people the Labour party is...

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  The damage that this Labour Government have dealt to our economy is a real kick in the teeth for all those who voted for them last year—and for those who did not vote for them, but who wished them well and believed their words at the general election. Time and again, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak), and many others on this side of the House,...

• Taxes 15 Jul 2025

  I give way to the hon. Gentleman on raising taxes on hospices.

More of Richard Holden’s recent appearances

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