Alec Shelbrooke

Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell

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Alec Shelbrooke’s voting in Parliament

Alec Shelbrooke is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.

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Recent appearances

  • BBC News Impartiality: Government's Role — [Hannah Bardell in the Chair] 27 Feb 2024

    We often find the left screaming that the BBC is a Tory mouthpiece and the right screaming that the BBC is a left-wing mouthpiece—that is political opinion, and it probably means that it has got it roughly right. But there are indisputable facts that are black and white, as with the bombing of the hospital and the failure to verify sources. That is where the BBC is taking a wrong turn. That...
  • BBC News Impartiality: Government's Role — [Hannah Bardell in the Chair] 27 Feb 2024

    I am grateful to the Minister for highlighting the fact that there will be a funding review, but how the BBC is funded is not the issue. The BBC has built a reputation as the trusted news source, and it is letting that reputation down. There will be a BBC no matter how it is funded, and people will turn to it. The problem now is that there is a bias being launched against Israel. That is a...
  • BBC News Impartiality: Government's Role — [Hannah Bardell in the Chair] 27 Feb 2024

    It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton North (Sir Michael Ellis), whose opening speech covered such a wide area, with many vital points backed up by the evidence that his fine legal mind was always going to bring to this debate. My Jewish constituents are bloody terrified now. It was bad enough...

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Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

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Topics of interest

Alec Shelbrooke campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Treasury
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Health
  • Transport
  • High Speed 2 Railway Line
  • Minimum Wage: Work Experience
  • Iran
  • Gardens: Property Development
  • Broadband: Elmet and Rothwell

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Energy Bill [HL] Committee (17 May 2023 to 29 Jun 2023)
  • Member, UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] Committee (16 Nov 2022 to 22 Nov 2022)
  • The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence ( 7 Sep 2022 to 26 Oct 2022)
  • Member, Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill Committee (22 Jun 2022 to 7 Jul 2022)
  • Member, Elections Bill Committee (15 Sep 2021 to 26 Oct 2021)
  • Member, European Scrutiny Committee (15 Jul 2015 to 7 Nov 2016)
  • Member, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (23 Jun 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, Backbench Business Committee (10 Dec 2013 to 14 May 2014)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

1. Employment and earnings
Payments from News UK, PO Box 151, Peterborough PE7 8YT:
23 March 2023, received £300 for appearing as a panellist on the Tom Newton Dunn Show on Talk TV on 16 March 2023. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 23 March 2023)
23 June 2023, received £300 for appearing as a panellist on the First Edition show on Talk TV on 25 May 2023. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 26 June 2023)
23 June 2023, received £100 for a cancelled appearance on the First Edition show on Talk TV on 14 June 2023. Hours: none. (Registered 28 June 2023)
24 July 2023, received £600 for appearing as a panellist on the First Edition show on Talk TV on 21 June 2023 and 5 July 2023. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 25 July 2023)
21 September 2023, received £50 for an appearance on the First Edition show on Talk TV in August 2023. Hours: 15 mins. (Registered 22 September 2023)
23 November 2023, received £50 for an interview on the First Edition show on Talk TV on 19 October 2023. Hours: 15 mins. (Registered 22 November 2023)
9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
I employ my wife, Susan Shelbrooke, as a part time senior secretary. (Updated 4 June 2015)

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