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.

Crimea: Human Rights | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Russian counterparts on the deten

Express Train Services | Oral Answers to Questions - Transport | Commons debates

The Government have embarked on the biggest upgrade programme for our railways since the Victorian era.

Topical Questions | Oral Answers to Questions - International Development | Commons debates

Will the Government ensure that their aid focuses on projects to improve sanitation and infection control to reduce the need to use antibiot

Topical Questions | Oral Answers to Questions - International Development | Commons debates

Will the Government ensure that their aid focuses on projects to improve sanitation and infection control to reduce the need to use antibiot

Topical Questions | Oral Answers to Questions - International Development | Commons debates

Will the Government ensure that their aid focuses on projects to improve sanitation and infection control to reduce the need to use antibiot

Agriculture: Antibiotics | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage farming methods whic

Charter of Fundamental Rights – Government Report | European Union (Withdrawal) Bill | Commons debates

That was certainly the stated intention when the charter was originally drafted, but the judicial activism of the ECJ has seen the scope of

Charter of Fundamental Rights – Government Report | European Union (Withdrawal) Bill | Commons debates

Of course, the key expansion as far as the United Kingdom is concerned was the confirmation by the European Court of Justice in the Åklagare

Charter of Fundamental Rights – Government Report | European Union (Withdrawal) Bill | Commons debates

I can assure the hon.

Charter of Fundamental Rights – Government Report | European Union (Withdrawal) Bill | Commons debates

That was certainly the stated intention when the charter was originally drafted, but the judicial activism of the ECJ has seen the scope of