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
• Postnatal Depression
• Cayman Islands: Taxation

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

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

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• 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)

• High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill Committee (1 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

• Spending Review 2025 11 Jun 2025

  I thank the Chancellor for engaging productively in the discussions about sustainable budgets for Northern Ireland, for the willingness to negotiate further and for the recognition that our need levels should be met. I thank her for that engagement and for the allocations to Northern Ireland for specific community projects that have been advanced by us. She has chosen through this allocation...

• Strategic Defence Review 2 Jun 2025

  The Secretary of State will know that the Democratic Unionist party, and the people we are privileged to represent from Northern Ireland, are hugely supportive of our armed forces. He should know that as a region, we disproportionately provide more personnel than any other part of our country to those armed forces. I was encouraged to hear him talk about every region and nation of the United...

• Northern Ireland: Veterans: Legal Protections 21 May 2025

  The Secretary of State will know that, as part of a Northern Ireland Affairs Committee inquiry, we have been engaging with victims across Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom to assist them in their quest for some personal closure, truth and justice on legacy. Veterans, like many other victims, have indicated to us that while they are listened to, they have not been heard. Will...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Gavin Robinson

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