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
• Cabinet Office: Staff
• Ministers: Aviation

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)
• Seafarers’ Wages Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Online Safety Bill Committee (11 out of 17)
• Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• 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)
• Prisons (Substance Testing) 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)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 11 Jul 2025

  Animal Shelters (Licensing) Bill: Second Reading – Richard Holden. Private Members' Bills

• Government Performance against Fiscal Rules 7 Jul 2025

  Who does the Chief Secretary to the Treasury think is most responsible for the extra 276,000 people unemployed since the time of the Budget? Is it the national insurance jobs tax, is it the business rates increases, or is it the attacks that the Government have made on long-term investment, whether through agricultural property relief or business property relief?

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Maternity Services: Essex 7 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve (a) safety and (b) other standards in maternity services at (i) Southend and (ii) Basildon Hospital.

More of Richard Holden’s recent appearances

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