About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Matt Rodda) represents you, and all of the people who live in Reading Central, 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

Llafur MP ar gyfer Reading Central

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 9 Mehefin 2017 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Also represented Reading East

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• @mattrodda.bsky.social
• @MattRodda
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Science
• Innovation and Technology
• Merchant Shipping: Pensions
• Reading Prison: Sales
• Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
• Ministry of Defence: ICT
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport: ICT

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Football Governance Bill Committee ( 8 Mai 2024 to 23 Mai 2024)
• Member, Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] Committee ( 7 Chw 2024 to 20 Chw 2024)
• Shadow Minister (AI and Intellectual Property) ( 5 Med 2023 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee ( 8 Maw 2023 to 15 Maw 2023)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Ion 2023 to 25 Ion 2023)
• Member, Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (26 Ion 2022 to 2 Chw 2022)
• Member, Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] Committee (19 Ion 2022 to 27 Ion 2022)
• Member, Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee ( 8 Meh 2021 to 15 Meh 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Pensions) ( 7 Ion 2021 to 5 Med 2023)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (Buses) (12 Ion 2018 to 7 Ion 2021)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Football Governance Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life 16 Jul 2025

  Is it not the point that there should be a shared national mission to invest in young people? As was rightly pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes), the evidence is clear that £1 invested in a very young child, aged less than five, is worth £16 invested later in their life. The purpose of our work in this field in the public sector, and with...

• Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life 16 Jul 2025

  My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. As a fellow southern MP, I share his concern about the importance of explaining that there is real poverty across the south of England, as well as in many other parts of the country. He makes a point about the breakfast clubs, which are outstanding and he is right to say how valuable they are on a number of fronts. We have two in Reading. My fellow...

• Welfare Spending 15 Jul 2025

  It is a pleasure to speak in support of the policies outlined by the Minister. I wish to discuss the crisis in the system, the situation in my constituency, and some of the important initiatives under way to get people back into work. It is worth reviewing the scale of the crisis that the current Government inherited just a year ago. After 14 years of the previous Government, 4.5 million...

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