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Laura Farris

Conservative Newbury F
Laura Farris is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Conservative MP for Newbury, and left the Commons on 30 May 2024.

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.

Ministerial activity

Records on file 13
13 meetings · 0 hospitality · 0 gifts · 0 overseas trips · 2024-01-01 → 2024-06-30

Recent meetings

Date Met with Purpose Source
2024-05-22 Director, End Violence Against Women Coalition, Director Centre for Woman's Justice, CEO Welsh Women's Aid, CEO, Respect, Director Latin American Women's Right Service, Director Southall Black Sisters, CEO Women's Aid Federation of England, Director Rights of Women, CEO Rape Crisis England & Wales, CEO Refuge, Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Victims Commissioner, Co-Executive Director Imkaan, Chief Executive SignHealth, Suzy Lamplugh Trust, Surviving Economic Abuse, Galop Violence against women roundtable home-office
2024-04-30 Director of the Salvation Army Anti Trafficking and Modern Slavery home-office
2024-04-16 CEO - Suzy Lamplugh trust National Stalking Awareness Week home-office
2024-03-26 Women's Aid Domestic Abuse Flee Fund, Funding, Operation Soteria, DA Matter Training, Protective Orders home-office
2024-03-26 Safelives Introduction into their Charity and to discuss their Domestic Abuse training programme for Multi Agencies home-office
2024-03-25 Katy Balls - Political Editor - Spectator Podcast - Women with Balls home-office
2024-03-12 Hourglass Abuse of Older people and Supporting Safer Ageing home-office
2024-03-04 Safeguarding Alliance To discuss registered sex offender name changes home-office
2024-02-29 CWJ - Centre for Women's Justice Discussion to call for a change in the Law and Practices- increasing investment into Women and Girls specialist services home-office
2024-02-28 Victim Support Introduction with an Independent Charity providing a range of support to victims - Domestic abuse and Hate crime home-office
2024-02-08 SEA - Surviving Domestic Abuse Introduction and to raise awareness of Economic Abuse home-office
2024-02-08 AAFDA - Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse - CEO Introduction and to Discuss Domestic Homicide and Domestic Violence home-office
2024-01-08 Refuge Introduction Meeting to discuss their work and to meet victims of Domestic Abuse home-office
Source: gov.uk ministerial transparency returns. Coverage: HM Treasury and DSIT. Published quarterly under the Ministerial Code; refreshed monthly on the 7th.

Constituencies represented

2019-12-122024-05-30
Newbury

Party history

2019-12-122024-05-30
Conservative

Government posts

2023-11-142024-07-05
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2020-03-022022-03-15
Home Affairs Committee
2021-06-082022-11-29
Justice Committee
2022-03-142022-10-11
Committee on Standards
2022-03-142022-10-11
Committee of Privileges
2022-10-192024-05-30
Speaker's Conference (2022)
2022-10-262022-11-02
Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill
2023-02-082023-02-22
Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill
2023-02-222023-03-01
Child Support (Enforcement) Bill
2023-12-062024-01-30
Criminal Justice Bill
2024-05-082024-05-13
Courts (Remote Hearings) 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) · 13 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Public Legal Education and Pro Bono
Subject Group
Chair & Registered Contact LawWorks 4 2024-01-08
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
Sexually-motivated Manslaughter (Sentencing) Bill Sponsored Withdrawn 2022-06-20
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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