Parliamentary Career

Theresa Villiers started out as a Member of the European Parliament in 1999 and joined the Westminster ranks in 2005, holding a number of positions in opposition and in Government. Here's an overview of her career so far:

MEP for London, 1999 - 2005
Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, 2001 - 2002
MP for Chipping Barnet 2025 - 2024 (re-elected 2010, 2015, 2017 & 2019)
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 2005 - 2007
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, 2007 - 2010
Minister for Transport, 2010 - 2012
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 2012 - 2016
Secretary of State for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs - 2019 - 2020
Member of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament - 2020 - 2024

You can read Theresa's final contributions in Parliament below.

Turkey: Fracking | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the Turkish Govern

Northern Ireland | Commons debates

None of us should underestimate the difficulty of reaching accommodation on issues of culture and identity that have divided people for cent

Turkey (Afrin) | Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Commons debates

Will the Minister make representations to the Turkish Foreign Minister to ask the Turkish navy to cease obstructing vessels seeking to extra

Layla Siyaad | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the Government of

Housing: Construction | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of breaking

Indonesia: Religious Freedom | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the extent of religious freedom in

Apprenticeships | Oral Answers to Questions - Northern Ireland | Commons debates

One of the best apprenticeships programmes is run by Bombardier.

Housing, Planning and the Green Belt | Commons debates

The case for the green belt was put very powerfully by former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion.

Housing, Planning and the Green Belt | Commons debates

One of my constituents suggested to me that breaking up some of the bigger house builders might improve competition in the market, deliver a

Proscription of Hezbollah | Commons debates

Hezbollah is a violent, genocidal terrorist organisation dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel, and I challenge the Opposition