About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Jonathan Pearce) represents you, and all of the people who live in High Peak, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for High Peak

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

Social Media

• @jon4highpeak.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Dental Services: High Peak
• General Practitioners: High Peak
• Mental Health Services: High Peak
• Football: Clubs
• Banks: Derbyshire

Currently held offices

• Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (since 9 Dec 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] Committee (26 Feb 2025 to 11 Mar 2025)
• Member, Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Feb 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• Member, Employment Rights Bill Committee (13 Nov 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Robert Largan
• Ruth George
• Andrew Bingham
• Tom Levitt
• Charles Hendry
• Christopher Hawkins
• Spencer Le Marchant
• Peter Jackson
• David Walder
• Arthur Molson
• Alfred Law
• Samuel Hill-Wood
• Oswald Partington
• William Sidebottom

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Employment Rights Bill Committee (19 out of 21)
• Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Data (Use and Access) Bill Committee (3 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Iran: Nuclear Power 9 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to use the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action snapback mechanism to re-impose nuclear-related UN sanctions on Iran before their expiry in October 2025.

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Iran: Nuclear Weapons 9 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the time taken for Iran to construct a nuclear weapon.

• Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan: 80th Anniversary 6 May 2025

  As we mark 80 years since the long-anticipated news that the evil Nazi regime, which had orchestrated the greatest act of mass murder in human history and terrorised Europe, had been defeated by the allies, I want to concentrate on the role of my constituency of High Peak in the second world war. So many of our men and women served their country during the war, but, sadly, far too many made...

More of Jonathan Pearce’s recent appearances