About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Patrick Spencer) represents you, and all of the people who live in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Conservative MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Education
• Treasury
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Home Office
• Private Education: VAT
• Special Educational Needs
• Flood Control: Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• National Grid: East of England
• Special Educational Needs: Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

Currently held offices

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Member, Education Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• Member, Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee ( 4 Dec 2024 to 12 Dec 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Daniel Poulter
• Michael Lord

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (0 out of 3)
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Treasury: Private Education: VAT 17 Mar 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much input VAT is forecast to be repayable to private schools for the first quarter that the VAT is levied; how much output VAT is expected to be raised from private schools in the first quarter; and what the net payment is to private schools for the first quarter of this implementation.

• Written Answers — Treasury: Private Education: VAT 17 Mar 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much input VAT is forecast to be repayable to private schools for the first quarter that the VAT is levied; how much output VAT is expected to be raised from these schools from these schools in the first quarter; and what the net payment to private schools is for the first quarter of this implementation under the current HMRC interpretation of the...

• Written Answers — Treasury: Food: VAT 17 Mar 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether food for people living at (a) school and (b) home will have VAT payable on it under the VAT guidance published in November 2024 by HMRC.

More of Patrick Spencer’s recent appearances

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