Robert Goodwill

Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby

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Recent appearances

  • Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 1 Jan 1970

    General Debate on the Reports of the Environmental Audit Committee, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and Science, Innovation and Technology Committee on Food Security – Philip Dunne – Greg Clark – Robert Goodwill. General debate
  • Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: UK Food Security 14 Mar 2024

    What recent assessment he has made of UK food security.
  • Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: UK Food Security 14 Mar 2024

    Does the Minister share my concerns that a perfect storm may be brewing? With grain prices on the floor, a third of the wheat crop either not being drilled or flooded out, and rape being increasingly difficult to establish, some of the long-term, multi-annual stewardship options are becoming increasingly attractive. And that is not to mention those idiots in Wales taking 20% of land out of...

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Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

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Topics of interest

Robert Goodwill campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Transport
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Home Department
  • Department for Transport
  • Treasury
  • Buses: Exhaust Emissions
  • Motor Vehicles: Registration
  • Dental Services
  • Motor Vehicles: Testing
  • Driving: Licensing

Currently held offices

  • Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 25 May 2022)
  • Chair, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (since 25 May 2022)
  • Chair, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (since 25 May 2022)
  • Member, Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements (since 25 May 2022)
  • Member, Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act (since 10 Nov 2020)
  • Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 2 Mar 2020)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Down Syndrome Bill Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 26 Jan 2022)
  • Member, Nationality and Borders Bill Committee (15 Sep 2021 to 4 Nov 2021)
  • Member, Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (12 May 2021 to 24 Jun 2021)
  • Member, Environmental Audit Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 Jul 2022)
  • The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( 5 Mar 2019 to 25 Jul 2019)
  • Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee ( 5 Mar 2018 to 8 Apr 2019)
  • Member, Environmental Audit Committee (22 Jan 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Minister of State (Education) (12 Jun 2017 to 9 Jan 2018)
  • The Minister for Immigration (15 Jul 2016 to 11 Jun 2017)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 15 Jul 2016)
  • The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ( 6 Sep 2012 to 7 Oct 2013)
  • Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (12 May 2010 to 6 Sep 2012)
  • Shadow Minister (Transport) ( 3 Jul 2007 to 6 May 2010)
  • Opposition Whip (Commons) ( 8 Nov 2006 to 3 Jul 2007)
  • Member, Transport Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 11 Dec 2006)

Previous MPs in this constituency

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

6. Land and property portfolio: (i) value over £100,000 and/or (ii) giving rental income of over £10,000 a year
Southwood Farm, Terrington, York, which is farmed "in hand": (i) and (ii).
Three industrial units at Southwood Farm, Terrington, York: (i) and (ii). Since January 2018, only two of these units are let. (Updated 06 January 2020)
Four houses in Teesside. Administered by R W Goodwill, Property Division: (i) and (ii).
Until 1 September 2023, flat in London. Administered by R W Goodwill, Property Division: (i) and (ii). (Registered 10 April 2012; updated 27 November 2023)
7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
Mowthorpe (UK) Ltd; cemetery company
From 21 September 2020, 76 Warwick Way Ltd; a company which owns a property freehold. (Registered 23 September 2020)
8. Miscellaneous
Unremunerated managing director of Mowthorpe (UK) Ltd; see entry in Category 7 above. (Updated 13 May 2015)
Farmer; R W Goodwill, Southwood Farm, Terrington, York. I draw no money from the farm. (Updated 13 May 2015)
From 15 June 2021, a Trustee of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 17 June 2021)
9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
I employ my wife, Maureen Goodwill, as Parliamentary Assistant and Caseworker.

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