Neil O'Brien, MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
Neil O'Brien has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2021 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development) (HM Official Opposition) | 2025 to now | Now |
| Shadow Minister (Education) (Department for Education) | 2024 to 2025 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 2025 | |
| Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill | 2022 | |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2017 to 2019 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Neil O'Brien has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | A member of the advisory board of Onward, a think tank which aims to produce modernising ideas to address some of the biggest challenges facing the UK. This is an unpaid role. | 16 Jun 2020 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Neil O'Brien asked 540 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
67 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Neil O'Brien represents Harborough, Oadby and Wigston. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Neil O'Brien won with 37% of the votes, and Hajira Piranie (Labour) came second with 32%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil O'Brien | Conservative | 18,614 | 36.9% |
| Hajira Piranie | Labour | 16,236 | 32.2% |
| Danuta Jeeves | Reform UK | 6,332 | 12.6% |
| Phil Knowles | Liberal Democrat | 4,732 | 9.4% |
| Darren Woodiwiss | Green Party | 4,269 | 8.5% |
| Robin Lambert | Social Democratic Party | 203 | 0.4% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Neil O'Brien took part in 188 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Neil O'Brien voted the same way as their party in 187 of the 187 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this