About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Josh Newbury) represents you, and all of the people who live in Cannock Chase, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Cannock Chase

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Social Media

• @joshnewburymp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Home Office
• Disability Aids: Children
• Pupil Referral Units: Staffordshire
• Recycling
• Fish Farming: Animal Welfare
• Plastics: Waste

Currently held offices

• Member, Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] Committee (since 24 Jun 2025)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Amanda Milling
• Aidan Burley
• Tony Wright

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Bus Services (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Bus Services No. 2 Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life 16 Jul 2025

  It is a privilege to contribute to today’s debate on giving children the best possible start in life. As a father, this is an issue that matters deeply to me, not just politically but personally. We all understand that our experiences in our first years shape the adults we go on to become. The memories formed in those formative years, whether of joy and love or challenge and neglect, stay...

• Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life 16 Jul 2025

  Thank you. I really appreciate that from my hon. Friend. I think that everybody who puts themselves forward to be an adopter or a foster carer does so with a huge amount of compassion. It is a journey that is often fraught with difficulty, and it certainly presents its challenges, but I think that all parenthood does. Sometimes we need to recognise that parents, no matter how they come to...

• Backbench Business: Educational Attainment of Boys 10 Jul 2025

  I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Sam Rushworth) for securing today’s debate. As others have done, I start by saying that the numbers are stark. By almost every measure, boys are falling behind. By the end of primary school, just 57% of boys meet the expected standard in English and maths, compared with 64% of girls. For a white, working-class boy from a low-income...

More of Josh Newbury’s recent appearances

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