Jeremy Quin was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Horsham constituency in May 2015 and served until the General Election of July 2024.
As our MP he was particularly focused on issues impacting the constituency and constituents: including campaigning on Lobular Breast Cancer and on access to Child Trust Funds. He helped convene debates on Southern Rail and on "Fair Funding" in education: drawing on close contact with local schools and personal experience prior to his election as a school governor.
While supporting the jobs and economic benefit that Gatwick brings to our area he fought for constituents on issues such as aircraft noise. He advocated Heathrow as the best option in the national interest to meet airport expansion which would also avoid the massive impact on local infrastructure and local environmental consequences of expansion at Gatwick.
Following his election, Jeremy served on the Work and Pensions Select Committee. Financial Inclusion is an issue close to his heart; he is a former director of a credit union - providing alternative means of accessing banking services and an ethical alternative to "doorstep lending". Prior to his election in 2015, he was also a regular volunteer in a homeless shelter. From January 2016 through to his appointment to the Government in 2018, Jeremy served as a member of the Financial Inclusion Commission a cross-party body which works to improve financial inclusion and as the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions.
Jeremy was appointed by the DWP Select Committee to the joint committee investigating the events surrounding the collapse of BHS. The subsequent report helped deliver a better result for BHS pensioners and prompt changes to private company governance to protect employees and pensioners.
He also takes a close interest in Economic issues. This follows a professional career as a Company Adviser: on leaving University he joined NatWest Securities (which later became part of Deutsche Bank) becoming a Managing Director of his firm in 2001. In 2008-2009 he joined HM Treasury on secondment serving as their Senior Corporate Finance Adviser through the financial crisis.
He was born in Aylesbury and is married to Joanna. They both knew the constituency well before Jeremy was first selected and have enjoyed making their home in Horsham.
The son of a primary school teacher and agricultural merchant (later ordained as a Church of England Vicar) Jeremy attended St Albans School before reading History at Oxford.
Jeremy campaigned to "Remain" in the EU Referendum but pledged to honour and implement the decision made by the British people. He accordingly consistently supported attempts to secure BREXIT by means of an agreed withdrawal deal between the U.K. and EU.
Having served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in DEXEU. Jeremy accepted a role in the Government as a member of the Whips Office in July 2018 and was promoted to be a senior Whip (a Lord Commissioner) in November 2018. The Whips' Office manage parliamentary business and act as a conduit between the Government and Members of Parliament. Jeremy was promoted in July 2019 to serve as "Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household". As Comptroller, Jeremy remained a senior whip and also had specific duties on various Royal occasions, such as the State Opening of Parliament.
In December 2019, Jeremy joined the Cabinet Office as Parliamentary Secretary. At the subsequent Ministerial Reshuffle in February 2020 Jeremy took on the role of Minister of State in the MOD with specific responsibility for Defence Procurement, playing a key part in the the UK's response to Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine.
Jeremy was then appointed Minister of State at the Home Office on 7 September 2022. Within the Home Office he undertook the role of Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire.
Following Rishi Sunak’s election as Leader of the Conservative Party and appointment as Prime Minister Jeremy returned to the Cabinet Office as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, attending Cabinet. His wide ranging role included Government coordination; national resilience; progressing the resolution of the Infected Blood scandal; civil service reform and the Government Functions. He took through Parliament the groundbreaking Procurement Act widening access to Government business and enhancing national security.
He left Government in November 2023 in order to focus on constituency concerns which he combined with serving as the Chairman of the House of Commons’ Defence Select Committee to which he was elected with cross-party support in January 2024.
