Charlie Dewhirst Portrait

Charlie Dewhirst

Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds

3,125 (7.3%) majority - 2024 General Election

First elected: 4th July 2024


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Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Charlie Dewhirst has voted in 11 divisions, and never against the majority of their Party.
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.

Sparring Partners
James Wild (Conservative)
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Education)
(2 debate interactions)
Judith Cummins (Labour)
(1 debate interactions)
Stephen Morgan (Labour)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
(1 debate interactions)
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Department Debates
Department for Transport
(1 debate contributions)
Department for Education
(1 debate contributions)
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Latest EDMs signed by Charlie Dewhirst

2nd September 2024
Charlie Dewhirst signed this EDM on Monday 2nd September 2024

Social Security

Tabled by: Rishi Sunak (Conservative - Richmond and Northallerton)
That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (S.I., 2024, No. 869), dated 22 August 2024, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 August 2024, be annulled.
81 signatures
(Most recent: 10 Sep 2024)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 75
Independent: 3
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Scottish National Party: 1
19th July 2024
Charlie Dewhirst signed this EDM as the primary signatory on Thursday 18th July 2024

Team GB and ParalympicsGB at Paris 2024

Tabled by: Charlie Dewhirst (Conservative - Bridlington and The Wolds)
That this House congratulates every athlete selected to represent Team GB and ParalympicsGB at Paris 2024 and wishes them every success at the Games; notes the extraordinary recent performances of Great Britain & Northern Ireland’s Olympic and Paralympic teams; and further notes the vital contribution of UK Sport and The …
11 signatures
(Most recent: 2 Sep 2024)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 4
Labour: 2
Green Party: 2
Liberal Democrat: 2
Democratic Unionist Party: 1
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Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Charlie Dewhirst, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

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Charlie Dewhirst has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Charlie Dewhirst has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

Charlie Dewhirst has not introduced any legislation before Parliament

Charlie Dewhirst has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 21 Written Questions

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30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the three Ministerial flats in Admiralty House are unoccupied.

As of 11 September, all residential flats at Admiralty House are currently unoccupied.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 9 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, what the estimated cost was of government (a) consultancy and (b) communications in 2022-23; and what the primary sources of each data source are.

Departments set out their spend on consultants in their Annual Reports and Accounts (ARAs).

Details of all communications activity expenditure for departments is not held centrally.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 9 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, which planned government communications programmes will be cancelled.

A review of planned government communications and marketing is currently in progress.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, CP 1133, whether he plans to reduce consultancy spending on equality, diversity and inclusion (a) recruitment and (b) training for the civil service.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has set out this Government’s commitment to reducing consultancy spend across Government by 50%.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 10 of the report published by HM Treasury entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, CP 1133, what the (a) headcount and (b) FTE size is of the Civil Service.

Accredited Official Statistics on the number of civil servants, both overall and by government department and agency, on an FTE and headcount basis are published each quarter by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their Public Sector Employment statistical release. The latest available statistics were published 11 June 2024 and showed the number of civil servants as at 31 March 2024.

The latest statistics and all previous and upcoming releases can be found on the ONS website at https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/previousReleases.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to p.10 of the document entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, whether the Prime Minister’s Office will be expected to implement 2% administrative savings to its own annual budget sub-heading.

For management and staffing purposes the Prime Minister’s Office is a business unit of the Cabinet Office. Following the Chancellor's announcement, the Cabinet Office, like other Government Departments, will be going through a comprehensive spending review process which will factor in any administrative savings in the round.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 10 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, whether he plans to sell the (a) leaseholds and (b) freeholds of (i) the Civil Service Club, (ii) Inn the Park and (iii) Marlborough House.

These are not government-owned buildings, so therefore the Cabinet Office does not centrally hold information or data on the freeholds and leaseholds of these buildings.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 17 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, in what other ways he intends to reduce the cost of politics.

As the Chancellor announced on 29 July, the government will review the cost of the political system, which includes eligibility for ministerial severance payments. The Cabinet Office will conduct this review which will take place ahead of the Spending Review.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
17th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential threat of an outbreak of African swine fever in the pig population.

Defra and its agencies keep the spread of African swine fever (ASF) under continuous review and is prepared to rapidly implement import restrictions based on changing scientific and risk data. A finding of ASF in a wild boar in western Germany in 2024 represented a further move in disease distribution towards the United Kingdom, following similar movements elsewhere in Europe. While we consider that the overall risk of entry of ASF virus into the UK from all combined pathways remains at medium, the particular pathway of human-mediated transport of non-commercial, infected products from the EU is considered to be high risk (please see the latest Animal and Plant Health Agency’s risk assessment from June 2024 for more detail: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/667444bb64e554df3bd0dbed/Update_ASF_in_Europe_35.pdf).

UK safeguard measures are in place prohibiting live pigs, wild boar, or pork products from affected EU areas from entering Great Britain. There is also enforcement carried out by Border Force and Port Health Authority officers at seaports and airports.

To further safeguard Britain's biosecurity and pig industry, travellers are no longer allowed to bring pork products weighing over two kilograms into Great Britain, unless they are produced to the EU’s commercial standards and commercially packaged with an identification mark. These measures help limit possibly infected pig meat being brought into Great Britain through various means, such as in passengers’ luggage or in vehicles.

Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
17th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government response to the consultation entitled Contractual practice in the UK pig sector, published on 6 April 2023, whether it is his policy to implement the next steps set out in that Government response.

We will deliver a resilient and healthy food system, with a new deal that ensures fairness for farmers. We recognise that fairness in the supply chain is critical for farmers across all sectors. We want all farmers to get a fair price for their products and are committed to tackle contractual unfairness where it exists.

We will continue the work closely with the pig sector, and all farming sectors, on the best way to achieve this.

Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
17th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her policy is on East Riding of Yorkshire Council receiving reallocated HS2 funding.

The previous Government made a number of funding commitments in the Network North Command Paper and these will be examined closely by my Government in the coming months.

Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 10 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, whether his plans to cut (a) consultancy and (b) communications spending apply to (i) NHS trusts and (ii) NHS England.

The Department is exploring options across all budgets within its remit to identify savings to contribute to pressures revealed in the audit, as outlined in HM Treasury’s document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25. This includes, but is not exclusive to, taking action to reduce non-essential consultancy and communications spending.

Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
30th Aug 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy paper entitled Fixing the Foundations: Public Spending Audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, CP 1133, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of civil service salaries in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year (i) before and (ii) after the decisions on (A) civil service pay increases and (B) the size of the civil service set out in that policy paper.

Pay for civil servants outside of the Senior Civil Service is not set centrally; rather, departments and bodies have freedom to make decisions on pay within the parameters of the Pay Remit Guidance published annually by the Cabinet Office. The Pay Remit Guidance for 2024/5 can be found using the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-pay-remit-guidance-2024-to-2025/civil-service-pay-remit-guidance-2024-to-2025

The pay remit sets a percentage maximum by which bodies can increase their average paybill. Each department will need to consider how they intend to apply the award to their workforce, before implementing it. The final cost of the civil service pay award for 2024/25 and estimates for 2025/26 will not be confirmed until this is concluded.

Data on the size of the Civil Service is available through the ONS Public Sector Employment publication, and can be found using the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 6 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, what is the gross cost of the civil service pay award for 2024-25.

Pay for civil servants outside of the Senior Civil Service is not set centrally; rather, departments and bodies have freedom to make decisions on pay within the parameters of the Pay Remit Guidance published annually by the Cabinet Office. The Pay Remit Guidance for 2024/5 can be found using the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-pay-remit-guidance-2024-to-2025/civil-service-pay-remit-guidance-2024-to-2025

The pay remit sets a percentage maximum by which bodies can increase their average paybill. Each department will need to consider how they intend to apply the award to their workforce, before implementing it. The final cost of the civil service pay award for 2024/25 will not be confirmed until this is concluded.

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many days a week staff in the Office for Value for Money will be allowed to work from home; and how many staff that Office will employ.

The Office for Value for Money (OVfM) is staffed by civil servants with a range of professional disciplines, from within HM Treasury and other partner organisations. In line with Civil Service expectations, staff will spend 60% of their time working from the office.

The OVfM is a time-limited team within HM Treasury. We expect around 20 staff to be working within the office.

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 6 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, whether it is his policy that average public sector pay excluding pension provision should equal private sector pay.

Pay for most frontline workforces - including nurses, teachers, armed forces and police officers - is set through an independent Pay Review Body (PRB) process. The PRBs consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motivate suitably able and qualified people; the financial circumstances of Government; the Government's policies for improving public services; and the Government's inflation target. They consider the whole remuneration package of those working in the public sector when forming their recommendations, including pensions.

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 15 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, for how long the Office for Value for Money will exist; and what its remit will be.

The Office for Value for Money (OVfM) will have two primary roles. First, to provide targeted interventions, working with departments, so that value for money governs every decision government makes. Second, to recommend system reforms to ensure any changes support the government’s missions and deliver value for money.

The OVfM will be a time-limited team. No final decision has been taken on when to disband the office, but its vision is to leave a legacy of concrete, embedded improvements to spending controls, to minimise the risk of poor value for money in the future.

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
30th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 9 of HM Treasury's document entitled Fixing the foundations: Public spending audit 2024-25, published on 29 July 2024, if she will list the (a) name and (b) value of the other small projects that her Department is cancelling.

In response to HMT’s savings commission, MHCLG has agreed £154 million from the department’s budgets. This comprises of several savings options on non-essential spending including:

  • Cancelling the Investment Opportunity Fund, which had not started, saving £122 million;
  • Cancelling the Antisocial behaviour (ASB) pilot programme, which had not started, saving a lifetime cost of £20 million. This Government believes there are more meaningful and better value-for-money interventions that would genuinely reduce incidents of ASB;
  • Reducing funding for legal fees we no longer expect to arise from the previous Government’s approach to extremism by £5 million; and,
  • Savings from the Cambridge Growth programme totalling £7 million, including reduced spend on consultancy activity.
Alex Norris
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
17th Jul 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a Hull and East Yorkshire devolution deal.

We want to see devolution extended to every corner of England, and have invited local areas without a devolution agreement to come forward with proposals on a sensible geography.

We recognise that in some parts of the country, such as Hull and East Yorkshire, local authorities had already worked with the previous government to develop devolution deals, which were put on hold over the general election.

We will work with local leaders, members of parliament and stakeholders, including those in Hull and East Yorkshire over the coming months, to ensure that our ambition for deeper and impactful devolution is expanded across the country.

Jim McMahon
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)