Neil O'Brien

MP since 8 Jun 2017

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Neil O'Brien is the Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, and has been an MP continually since 8 June 2017. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development).

1797

Votes Cast

£311,946

Expenses 2024-25

2,378

Majority

36.9%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£311,946

Staffing£242,307
Accommodation£32,656
Office£25,035
Travel£11,949

Year-on-Year

2024-25£311,946
2023-24£295,863
2022-23£276,613
2021-22£212,611
2020-21£219,570
2019-20£204,543
2018-19£191,241
2017-18£134,916

Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 50,386 voters

Conservative
18,614 votes36.9%
Labour
16,236 votes32.2%
Reform UK
6,332 votes12.6%
Liberal Democrat
4,732 votes9.4%
Green Party
4,269 votes8.5%
Social Democratic Party
203 votes0.4%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

855

Written Questions

6

Oral Questions

86

Debates Spoken In

171

Speeches

406

Divisions Voted

Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.

Voting Record

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3 AYE

Armed Forces Bill Report Stage

3 votes · 22 Jun 2026

4 AYE

National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee

4 votes · 17 Jun 2026

2 AYE

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages

2 votes · 16 Jun 2026

2 AYE

Railways Bill Remaining Stages

2 votes · 10 Jun 2026

3 AYE

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee

3 votes · 9 Jun 2026

3 AYE

Armed Forces Bill Committee

3 votes · 2 Jun 2026

Financial Interests(1)

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Date interest arose
25 April 2018

Registered 16 June 2020

Activity Pulse

Questions asked and motions sponsored by Neil in Parliament

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average attainment 8 score (a) overall, (b) for girls and (c) for boys was in each year for which data is available by ethnic group.

AnsweredDepartment for Education14 Jan 2025

English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average (a) progress 8 score, (b) attainment 8 score and (c) share of pupils getting grade 5 or above in English and maths was for each ethnic gro

AnsweredDepartment for Education14 Jan 2025

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders are living in the community.

AnsweredHome Office14 Jan 2025

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders of each nationality were living in the community in the most recent year for which data is available.

AnsweredHome Office14 Jan 2025

Asylum: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of successful asylum claimants who have moved into social housing since 2018 by local a

AnsweredHome Office14 Jan 2025

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on local authority spending on successful asylum claimants in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

AnsweredHome Office14 Jan 2025

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) workers and (b) temporary workers each of the sponsors on the register of licensed sponsors sponsored in each year for which data is

AnsweredHome Office10 Jan 2025

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost was of each of the Contract Change Notices.

AnsweredHome Office6 Jan 2025

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what difference each of the Contract Change Notices made to the

AnsweredHome Office6 Jan 2025

Multi-academy Trusts: Managers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there will be future intakes for the development programme for CEOs of multi-academy trusts run with the National Institute of Teaching.

AnsweredDepartment for Education6 Jan 2025
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