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Hilary Benn

Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP

Labour · Leeds South · LS10 2JP

Key facts

Party Labour (Lab)
ConstituencyLeeds South
First elected10 June 1999
ResultLab Hold
GenderM
Emailbennh@parliament.uk
Phone020 7219 5770
Websitehttp://www.hilarybennmp.com/

Election results

Results for Leeds South at the most recent general election.

Hilary Benn
Labour 17117 54.0%
Ed Carlisle
Green Party 5838 18.4%
Karen Cooksley
Conservative 4172 13.2%
Daniel Whetstone
Social Democratic Party 1874 5.9%
George Sykes
Liberal Democrat 1340 4.2%
Muhammad Azeem
Workers Party of Britain 719 2.3%
Janet Bickerdike
Christian Peoples Alliance 341 1.1%
Niko Omilana
Independent 277 0.9%

Government posts

PostFromTo
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 5 July 2024 Present
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 28 June 2007 6 May 2010
Secretary of State for International Development 6 October 2003 28 June 2007
Minister of State (Department for International Development) 13 May 2003 6 October 2003
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Minister for Prisons and Probation) 29 May 2002 13 May 2003
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Development) 11 June 2001 28 May 2002

Opposition posts

PostFromTo
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 4 September 2023 30 May 2024
Shadow Foreign Secretary 8 May 2015 26 June 2016
Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 7 October 2011 8 May 2015
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons 8 October 2010 7 October 2011
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 12 May 2010 8 October 2010

Committees

CommitteeFromTo
Environment, Transport & Regional Affairs 6 December 1999 1 June 2001
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority 26 January 2011 7 December 2011
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union 27 January 2020 16 January 2021
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union 12 July 2017 6 November 2019
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union 19 October 2016 3 May 2017
Liaison Committee (Commons) 20 May 2020 15 January 2021
Liaison Committee (Commons) 6 November 2017 6 November 2019
Liaison Committee (Commons) 19 October 2016 3 May 2017
Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system 13 February 2019 6 November 2019
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 12 June 2023 20 November 2023

Constituencies represented

ConstituencyFromTo
Leeds South Present
Leeds Central Present
Leeds Central Present

Party affiliations

PartyFromTo
Labour 10 June 1999 Present