About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Peter Swallow) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bracknell, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Bracknell

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• Wales Office
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Drugs
• Women: Football
• Tax Avoidance
• Pancreatin
• Travel: Insurance

Currently held offices

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Member, Court of Referees (since 27 Feb 2025)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (since 6 Jan 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• James Sunderland
• Phillip Lee
• Andrew MacKay

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Transfer of functions 13 Mar 2025

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• Public Bill Committee: Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Transfer of functions 13 Mar 2025

  I simply wish to say to the right hon. Member that it was not too long ago when he was on the Government Benches and presiding over the very system in question. As he has helpfully elucidated for everyone, we are dealing with an incredibly fractured landscape, which is precisely the challenge that the Bill proposes to address. In all frankness, given the fractured nature of the landscape,...

• Public Bill Committee: Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Transfer of functions 13 Mar 2025

  It is interesting to hear the shadow Minister speak about business’s view of the apprenticeship levy. When I speak to businesses in my constituency, they tell me that the apprenticeship levy was not flexible enough and was not working, and it was preventing them giving opportunities to young people. That is exactly why so many businesses have welcomed the changes that this Government are...

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