About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Richard Holden) represents you, and all of the people who live in Basildon and Billericay, 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

Ceidwadwyr MP ar gyfer Basildon and Billericay

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 13 Rhagfyr 2019 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Also represented North West Durham

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Cabinet Office
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Cabinet Office: Staff
• Armed Forces: Equality
• Civil Servants: Recruitment
• Foreign Investment in UK: National Security
• Money

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Opposition Whip (Commons) (since 8 Tach 2024)
• Shadow Paymaster General (since 8 Tach 2024)
• Member, Procedure Committee (since 28 Hyd 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mai 2025 to 15 Mai 2025)
• Minister without Portfolio (13 Tach 2023 to 5 Gor 2024)
• Member, Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] Committee (11 Ion 2023 to 17 Ion 2023)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (28 Hyd 2022 to 13 Tach 2023)
• Member, Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee ( 4 Hyd 2022 to 18 Hyd 2022)
• Member, Online Safety Bill Committee (18 Mai 2022 to 28 Meh 2022)
• Member, Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill Committee ( 5 Ion 2022 to 12 Ion 2022)
• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee ( 8 Rha 2021 to 11 Ion 2022)
• Member, Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill Committee ( 8 Rha 2021 to 15 Rha 2021)
• Member, Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee ( 7 Med 2021 to 22 Med 2021)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (25 Chw 2021 to 14 Ebr 2021)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (22 Chw 2021 to 22 Chw 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Maw 2020 to 15 Maw 2022)
• Member, European Statutory Instruments Committee ( 2 Maw 2020 to 30 Mai 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Baron

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Product Regulation and Metrology Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Online Safety Bill Committee (11 out of 17)
• Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Seafarers’ Wages Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Armed Forces Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• School Teachers’ Review Body: Recommendations 22 May 2025

  In Education questions, I raised the concerns of headteachers in Basildon and Billericay about school funding, and I directly asked about school support staff, who are already being told that they are being made redundant because of the national insurance jobs tax. Can the Minister explain to those staff and me why the Government have gone back on their promise to cover all the costs of the...

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Department for Work and Pensions: Civil Servants 22 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many permanent civil servants in her Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers list, (c) redeployment register, (d) talent pool and (e) skills match hub in the most recent period for which data is available.

• Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Intelligence and Security Committee: Staff 22 May 2025

  To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to increase the level of (a) staffing and (b) other support to the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Richard Holden

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