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Rt Hon Sir Oliver Heald KC

Conservative North East Hertfordshire M
The Rt Hon Sir Oliver Heald is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Conservative MP for North East Hertfordshire, 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.

Constituencies represented

2010-05-062024-05-30
North East Hertfordshire
1997-05-012010-05-06
North East Hertfordshire
1992-04-091997-05-01
North Hertfordshire

Party history

1992-04-092024-05-30
Conservative

Government posts

2016-07-162017-06-12
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
2012-09-062014-07-15
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
1995-07-061997-05-02
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security)

Opposition posts

2005-05-102007-07-03
Shadow Secretary of State
2004-06-152007-07-03
Shadow Secretary of State (Justice)
2003-06-012005-06-01
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
2002-06-012003-06-01
Shadow Cabinet Minister (Work and Pensions)
2001-06-012002-06-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Health)
2000-06-012001-06-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Home Affairs)
1997-06-012000-06-01
Opposition Whip (Commons)

Committee memberships

1998-06-222000-02-21
Administration Committee
2007-10-222012-10-29
Work and Pensions Committee
2010-07-262012-12-12
Standards and Privileges
2010-10-262012-10-15
Ecclesiastical Committee
2011-06-232012-03-26
Draft House of Lords Reform Bill (Joint Committee)
2014-10-162014-12-17
House of Commons Governance Committee
2020-03-022021-05-20
Regulatory Reform
2021-11-242021-12-01
Local Government (Disqualification) Bill
2023-06-142023-07-11
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2024-04-242024-05-01
Secure 16 to 19 Academies 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) · 3 active officership(s) · 8 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for British Bioethanol
Subject Group
Officer 7 2022-06-05
All-Party Parliamentary Group for the UK Innovation Corridor
Subject Group
Co-Vice Chair 6 2022-11-06
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chalk Streams
Subject Group
Vice Chair 4 2025-01-15
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)

4 bills 4 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Children in Hospital for Extended Periods (Report to Parliament) Bill Sponsored Withdrawn 2023-12-11
Children in Hospital for Extended Periods (Report to Parliament) Bill Sponsored 1st reading 2023-06-20
Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Act 2019 Sponsored Royal Assent 2018-06-13
Service Animals (Offences) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2017-12-05
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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