Helen Whately

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Ceidwadwyr MP ar gyfer Faversham and Mid Kent

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About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Helen Whately) represents you, and all of the people who live in Faversham and Mid Kent, 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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Ceidwadwyr MP ar gyfer Faversham and Mid Kent

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

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Helen Whately campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Department for Transport
  • Department for Environment
  • Food and Rural Affairs
  • Treasury
  • Solar Power: Lithium-ion Batteries
  • Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
  • Agriculture: Inheritance Tax
  • Employment Schemes: Finance
  • Agriculture: Land

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (since 5 Tach 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

  • Shadow Secretary of State for Transport ( 8 Gor 2024 to 5 Tach 2024)
  • Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) (26 Hyd 2022 to 5 Gor 2024)
  • Member, Health and Social Care Committee (25 Hyd 2022 to 8 Tach 2022)
  • Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee ( 8 Rha 2021 to 11 Ion 2022)
  • Member, Public Accounts Committee (30 Tach 2021 to 17 Hyd 2022)
  • The Exchequer Secretary (16 Med 2021 to 7 Gor 2022)
  • Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) (13 Chw 2020 to 16 Med 2021)
  • The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (10 Med 2019 to 13 Chw 2020)
  • Deputy Chair, Conservative Party (17 Ebr 2019 to 10 Med 2019)
  • Member, Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee) (27 Chw 2019 to 6 Tach 2019)
  • Vice-Chair, Conservative Party (27 Gor 2018 to 17 Ebr 2019)
  • Member, Health and Social Care Committee ( 8 Gor 2015 to 3 Mai 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

  • Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Animal Welfare: Prosecutions 17 Jul 2025

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of legislation for (a) deterring and (b) prosecuting people who attack (i) wildlife and (ii) livestock with catapults; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to help tackle this.
  • Welfare Spending 15 Jul 2025

    I beg to move, That this House believes the two-child benefit cap should remain in place and that households with a third or subsequent child born from 6 April 2017 claiming Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit should not receive additional funding, because those who receive benefits should make the same decisions about having children as those who do not; further believes that lifting the...
  • Welfare Spending 15 Jul 2025

    I do not agree with the hon. Member. I am going to talk about poverty in a moment, so if he will just hold on, he will hear my view on that point. This is a ticking time bomb. If we do not solve this problem, our economy will collapse, yet opposite me sit members of this Labour Government who have just shown us, with the welfare chaos over the past couple of weeks, that they will not, and...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Helen Whately

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