Simon Clarke

Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

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Recent appearances

  • Planning Reform — [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair] 13 Mar 2024

    I thank the Minister for her gracious comments about giving me time to respond. This has been a very good debate and, despite the proximity of an election, a remarkably consensual one about a number of the issues that we know we need to overcome if we are to build the homes we need as a country. Clearly, there are areas of contention and big challenges that require significant political...
  • Planning Reform — [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair] 13 Mar 2024

    I beg to move, That this House has considered reform of the planning system. The housing shortage that we face in this country is the great crisis facing the United Kingdom today. Since 1973, house prices have more than tripled in real terms, with the average house price today reaching over £284,000. Just in the last 20 years, the ratio of house prices to incomes has more than doubled. The...
  • Planning Reform — [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair] 13 Mar 2024

    My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have seen that in my constituency, where a new GP surgery in Nunthorpe, a suburb in the south of the town, has changed people’s attitudes to new homes coming in. However, we need to institutionalise that sort of offer to residents. The planning system must deliver a worthwhile settlement that gives residents a reason to say yes to extra homes. The...

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Conservative MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

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Topics of interest

  • Home Office
  • Department for Education
  • Department for Business
  • Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Treasury
  • Sentencing: Foreign Nationals
  • NHS: Finance
  • Universal Credit
  • National Security: Iran
  • Russia: Unmanned Air Vehicles

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 6 Dec 2022 to 18 Dec 2023)
  • Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission ( 7 Sep 2022 to 25 Oct 2022)
  • Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ( 6 Sep 2022 to 25 Oct 2022)
  • Member, Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 27 Jan 2022)
  • The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (16 Sep 2021 to 6 Sep 2022)
  • Member, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission (18 May 2020 to 22 Sep 2020)
  • Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (13 Feb 2020 to 8 Sep 2020)
  • The Exchequer Secretary (27 Jul 2019 to 13 Feb 2020)
  • Member, Treasury Committee (20 Feb 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Treasury Sub-Committee (20 Feb 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
  • Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (18 Dec 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

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Register of Members’ Interests

Last updated: 4 Mar 2024.

1. Employment and earnings
Payment of £750 expected from the Sun, News UK Group, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF, for an article written on 3 and 4 March, and published on 5 March 2023. Hours: 4 hrs. (Registered 24 April 2023)
2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Name of donor: Jon Moynihan
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,500
Date received: 9 May 2023
Date accepted: 9 May 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 10 May 2023)
Name of donor: Gary Lydiate
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date received: 30 June 2023
Date accepted: 30 June 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 04 July 2023)
Name of donor: Mark Antonopoulos
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Date received: 12 October 2023
Date accepted: 12 October 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 23 October 2023)
Name of donor: Business Fore
Address of donor: 52 London Road, Twickenham TW1 3RJ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Date received: 19 October 2023
Date accepted: 19 October 2023
Donor status: unincorporated association
(Registered 25 October 2023)
Name of donor: J C Bamford Excavators Limited
Address of donor: Lakeside Works, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5JP
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £40,000 to fund the employment of a campaign manager
Date received: 16 November 2023
Date accepted: 16 November 2023
Donor status: company, registration 00561597
(Registered 20 November 2023)
Name of donor: Sir John Hall
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Date received: 16 November 2023
Date accepted: 16 November 2023
Donor status: individual
(Registered 21 November 2023)
Name of donor: Aquind Limited
Address of donor: 5 Stratford Place, London W1C 1AX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Date received: 15 January 2024
Date accepted: 15 January 2024
Donor status: company, registration 06681477
(Registered 17 January 2024)
Name of donor: Gary Lydiate
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date received: 31 January 2024
Date accepted: 31 January 2024
Donor status: individual
(Registered 31 January 2024)
Name of donor: David Franks
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000
Date received: 28 February 2024
Date accepted: 28 February 2024
Donor status: individual
(Registered 28 February 2024)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: Middlesbrough Football Club
Address of donor: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough TS3 6RS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality at a football match, value £250
Date received: 4 February 2023
Date accepted: 4 February 2023
Donor status: company, registration 01947851
(Registered 10 May 2023)
Name of donor: Middlesbrough Football Club
Address of donor: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough TS3 6RS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality at a football match, value £250
Date received: 14 April 2023
Date accepted: 14 April 2023
Donor status: company, registration 01947851
(Registered 10 May 2023)
8. Miscellaneous
From 1 February 2020, a member of the Middlesbrough Town Deal Fund Board. This is an unpaid role. (Registered 24 February 2020)

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