About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Gavin Robinson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Belfast East, 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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Proffil

DUP MP ar gyfer Belfast East

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 8 Mai 2015 — Etholiad cyffredinol

• Wikipedia page

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• @grobinsondup
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

Gavin Robinson campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Defence
• Home Office
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
• Detention Centres
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Aviation: Training
• Cayman Islands: Taxation

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 4 Tach 2024)

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• Member, Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (24 Ebr 2024 to 1 Mai 2024)
• Member, Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill (Formerly known as International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill) Committee (17 Ebr 2024 to 24 Ebr 2024)
• Member, British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (20 Maw 2024 to 17 Ebr 2024)
• Member, High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee ( 6 Maw 2024 to 13 Maw 2024)
• Member, European Scrutiny Committee ( 4 Gor 2022 to 23 Ebr 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (28 Meh 2021 to 6 Gor 2021)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Maw 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 2 Maw 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (31 Hyd 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Hyd 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Hyd 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Hyd 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee (12 Med 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Defence Committee (11 Med 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Defence) ( 1 Gor 2017 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 5 Rha 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Rha 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (28 Hyd 2015 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee ( 6 Gor 2015 to 5 Rha 2016)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Justice) ( 8 Mai 2015 to 8 Meh 2017)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Home Affairs) ( 8 Mai 2015 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights) ( 8 Mai 2015 to 8 Meh 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Naomi Long
• Peter Robinson
• William Craig
• Stanley McMaster
• Alan McKibbin
• Thomas Cole
• Henry Harland
• Herbert Dixon
• Robert Sharman-Crawford
• Robert McMordie
• Gustav Wolff
• Edward De Cobain

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Defence Sector Financing — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] 7 May 2025

  The proposal for a multilateral bank is a fascinating, but part of this debate has been to focus on some of the inhibitors on providing private finance and investment in the United Kingdom. The situation is getting worse with large-scale pension funds. My hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) mentioned the parliamentary pension fund, but it pales into insignificance when we...

• Irish Republican Alleged Incitement 29 Apr 2025

  May I thank the hon. Member for North Durham (Luke Akehurst) for making that reference? Although it is natural that we refer to Jo Cox and Sir David Amess, it is important for Members of this House to recognise that there are also four plaques in this Chamber for Ian Gow, Airey Neave, Robert Bradford and Sir Anthony Berry, all of whom were murdered by the Irish republican antecedents to...

• Irish Republican Alleged Incitement 29 Apr 2025

  indicated dissent.

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Gavin Robinson

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