About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (John Slinger) represents you, and all of the people who live in Rugby, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Rugby

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Home Office
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Gambling: Advertising
• Nitazenes
• Further Education: Recruitment
• Gambling: Mobile Phones
• Prostate Cancer: Screening

Currently held offices

• Member, Speaker's Conference (2024) Committee (since 18 Dec 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Mark Pawsey
• James Pawsey
• William Price
• Roy Wise
• James Johnson
• William Brown
• David Margesson
• Ernest Brown
• Euan Wallace
• John Baird
• Corrie Grant
• Richard Verney
• Henry Cobb

Recent appearances

• Winter Fuel Payment 19 Mar 2025

  Will the hon. Member give way?

• Defence Industries: West Midlands 19 Mar 2025

  I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. I attended a roundtable in my constituency held by the Manufacturing Technology Centre and chaired by the Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry, my right hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool Garston (Maria Eagle), and the Minister for Nature, my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry East (Mary Creagh), who is one of my...

• Welfare Reform 18 Mar 2025

  Does my right hon. Friend agree that the clue is in the name of our party? Because we believe in dignity in work and enhanced workers’ rights; dignity and far more support for disabled people and people with health conditions seeking work, particularly with the right to try; and dignity and compassion for those unable to work, especially in ending reassessments. Does she also agree that...

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