John Cooper

Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway

About your Member of Parliament

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

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway

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

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Topics of interest

  • Scotland Office
  • Foreign
  • Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Treasury: Media
  • Foreign
  • Commonwealth and Development Office: Media
  • Scotland Office: Media
  • Department for Business and Trade: Media
  • Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Media

Currently held offices

  • Member, Business and Trade Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

Recent appearances

  • Clonoe Inquest 11 Feb 2025

    It is a great pity that no one from the Defence Front-Bench team is here with us because I am sure that if they were, they could confirm that the DShK machine gun that these men had is a weapon of incredible power. If we were to look around the average city block, there would be nothing that a DShK could not hit and put a bullet right through. We now sit here warm and safe and consider the...
  • Inheritance Tax Relief: Farms — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] 10 Feb 2025

    It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I represent Dumfries and Galloway, which is the land of milk and slurry. With due deference to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and his super-valuable land, we have some of the most productive grassland in the whole country. The point that the farmers there make to me all the time—they do not, by the way, have the...
  • Inheritance Tax Relief: Farms — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] 10 Feb 2025

    I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but as he can hear from Opposition Members it has repeatedly been called a loophole. I have been told in the main Chamber that I am scaremongering, which is not right either. That is nonsense—the fear out there is real. Listen to the noise outside. The people outside are not multimillionaires; they are not shroud waving for the sake of it and...

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