About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matt Bishop) represents you, and all of the people who live in Forest of Dean, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Forest of Dean

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

Social Media

• @mattbishopmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Firearms: Licensing
• Fractures: Health Services
• Floods: Housing
• Roads: Forest of Dean
• Mental Health Services: Rural Areas

Currently held offices

• Member, Justice Committee (since 17 Mar 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (20 Mar 2025 to 13 May 2025)
• Member, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• Member, Finance Committee (Commons) (18 Nov 2024 to 31 Mar 2025)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Mark Harper
• Diana Organ
• Morgan Price
• John Worthington
• David Vaughan
• Albert Purcell
• James Wignall
• Henry Webb
• Charles Dilke
• Godfrey Samuelson
• Thomas Blake

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Crime and Policing Bill Committee (11 out of 15)
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (2 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Spending Review 2025 11 Jun 2025

  I thank the Chancellor for announcement of the extra funding for crumbling schools. As we know, schools across the country were left to fail under the 14 years of the previous Government. How can establishments such as Forest high school in my constituency, which is literally crumbling day by day and at serious risk of closure, access the vital funds so we can provide the service required by...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: CPR: Training 5 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the administration of CPR training in schools.

• Justice: Violent Offenders: Early Release 3 Jun 2025

  In March, I met people from the Justice for Victims campaign group. One family told me that their young daughter was killed by an unlicensed, uninsured driver. They were asked to alter their victim impact statement several times to avoid offending the defendant and were denied the chance to fully express their grief. That experience is shared by many others. Will the Justice Secretary take...

More of Matt Bishop’s recent appearances

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