About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Oliver Ryan) represents you, and all of the people who live in Burnley, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Proffil

Annibynnol MP ar gyfer Burnley

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 5 Gorffennaf 2024 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Party was Labour/Co-operative until 10 Chw 2025

Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

• @oliverryanmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Ministry of Defence
• British Nationality: Assessments
• Homelessness: Men
• Powers of Attorney: Forms
• Ketamine
• Emergency Services: Medals

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Member, Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill (since 30 Meh 2025)
• Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art (since 6 Chw 2025)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (since 28 Hyd 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Chw 2025 to 11 Chw 2025)
• Member, Finance Bill Committee (22 Ion 2025 to 30 Ion 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Antony Higginbotham
• Julie Cooper
• Gordon Birtwistle
• Kitty Ussher
• Peter Pike
• Daniel Jones
• Wilfrid Burke
• Gordon Campbell
• Arthur Henderson
• David Irving
• Philip Morrell
• Gerald Arbuthnot
• Fred Maddison
• Philip Stanhope
• William Mitchell
• Philip Stanhope
• Jabez Balfour
• John Slagg
• Peter Rylands
• Richard Shaw

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill: Clause 1 - Amendments to legislation about court hearings 11 Jul 2025

  I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. We covered the Bill extensively in Committee, and there been a fairly wholesome debate about amendment 1 on Report. This is a sensible and proportionate Bill. It is slim and sophisticated, and I ask the House to approve its Third Reading.

• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill: Clause 1 - Amendments to legislation about court hearings 11 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Gentleman for his considered contribution to the debate. I will be brief. He is making some reasonable points, but he is answering his own question. We currently have a bottleneck in the court system, and by being against the measures in the Bill, he is, probably inadvertently, making it easier for these people not to be seen by the court system. The Bill is reasonable and...

• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill: Clause 1 - Amendments to legislation about court hearings 11 Jul 2025

  The hon. Gentleman has made some reasonable points throughout the debate. When I did my graduate diploma in law, we did a similar exercise and went to court to see big trials, but that is not what the Bill would cover. It is for small, mass cases that, as has been mentioned, deal with things like council tax arrears. As the hon. Gentleman is aware, we are short on time, so I will quietly...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Oliver Ryan

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