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Christian Matheson

Independent City of Chester M
Christian Matheson is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Independent MP for City of Chester, and left the Commons on 21 October 2022.

Pay & earnings · 2026

MP base salary £0 / £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date · annual rate £93,904
Declared outside earnings £0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared) £0
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.

Constituencies represented

2015-05-072022-10-21
City of Chester

Party history

2022-10-212022-10-21
Independent
2015-05-072022-10-21
Labour

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

2020-04-102021-12-04
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
2018-01-122020-04-10
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)

Committee memberships

2017-09-112018-07-23
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
2020-01-212022-10-21
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
2022-10-192022-10-25
Pension Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) Bill
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 38 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on General Aviation
Subject Group
Vice Chair 9 2023-05-07
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Commons votes · 2026

No Commons votes recorded for 2026.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are MPs who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Football Regulation Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2019-06-26
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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