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Christine Jardine
Liberal Democrats MP for Edinburgh West since (elected). An MP continuously since .
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387
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Register entries
5
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Declared while sitting for Lib Dem
£2,198.94
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Party affiliation
| Party | Office | Area | Period | Began | Ended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lib Dem | MP | Edinburgh West | – present | elected | — | Party history |
Parliament's party history for this member: Liberal Democrat ( – present).
Register of interests
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Totals add only the entries that declare an amount received: payments for work, donations, gifts, and funded visits (register categories 1.1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Ongoing employment is listed but not added, because its figure is a rate rather than a sum received. Each entry is dated by when the benefit happened, not when it was registered, and placed under the party the member sat for on that date. A member who changed party therefore has a separate total for each.
| Date | Category | Entry | Declared value | Sitting for | Source |
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| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Scottish Rugby Union - £500.00 | £500 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Scottish Rugby Limited - £798.00 | £798 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Vatican City between 21 October 2025 and 23 October 2025Consulate of San Marino | £900.94 | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| 8. Miscellaneous | I am the President of The Debating Group, which organises informal debates on policy issues. This is an unpaid role. | — | Lib Dem | Register record | |
| date registered | 8. Miscellaneous | Sole Trader, Christine Jardine Communications (inactive), media consultancy. | — | Lib Dem | Register record |
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Equality Act 2010 Guidance: Gynaecological Conditions
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Equality Act 2010 Guidance: Gynaecological Conditions
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Budget Resolutions
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Nadia Whittome). It is fair to say that all Budgets are keenly awaited, speculated about and then scrutinised in great detail. Some herald landmark decisions, such as the initial covid response package in March 2020. Others live in infamy, such as the mini-Budget that crashed the markets in 2022. This one is more difficult to categorise, coming as it does at a time when the unpredictability of the White House and Trump’s provocation of foreign wars creates instability in the international markets and for families in the UK, and massive uncertainty. That is why the £15 billion for Ukraine is so important for its defences, for ours, and for Europe’s. There is much more that I welcome in the Budget, partly because this is not the time for disagreeing for disagreeing’s sake, or point scoring. The people of this country face massive problems with energy prices and the cost of living, and it is down to us to work together to fix them. Any measures to bring down the crippling cost of energy bills, remove the unfairness of gas standing charges and give families a little headroom in the cost of living crisis should be endorsed. We must remember that while supermarket shelves are filling with luxuries, for too many people, this winter will be about keeping warm and keeping their children fed. Businesses will also struggle, so I was delighted to see that funding from gambling and vape shops will go to support other high-street businesses, and that the Government are asking the banks that the British taxpayer bailed out two decades ago to return the favour. It will be no surprise to anyone in this place to hear that I heartily endorse the impetus to create a better working relationship with the EU, as well as the £18 million for advanced chip development led by Edinburgh University and the £6 million for Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus, but I worry, as most Scots here do, that many of the measures in this Budget, which will lead to £600 million of consequentials for Scotland, will disappear into the black hole created by the Scottish Government, given the £5 billion shortfall that their budget now faces. Yesterday, the Chancellor said: “This is a Labour Budget for the worker, the sole trader, the parent at the school gate, and the young person desperate to start their first job or…business.”<span id="vol792_col314" class="cross-reference" data-house-id="1" data-column-number="314" data-volume-number="792" data-external-id="F5B77951-C068-4E8E-8957-07FFEF97C2E1">—[<em>Official Report</em>, 28 October 2026; Vol. 792, c. 314.]</span><span id="532" class="column-number" data-column-number="532"></span> Those are the people who will decide which category this Budget falls into. They will decide whether their lives are better for it. When we come out of the “storms” that the Chancellor talked about, we will see whether this tanker, which will take a long time to turn around, is facing in a direction that families will welcome.
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Topical Questions
A lot of work is being done in Scotland—in Edinburgh, Glasgow and elsewhere—to develop a space culture, with space <span id="530" class="column-number" data-column-number="530"></span>technology and satellite technology. With the controversy this week about potential interference in the Ukrainian war effort using satellite technology, do the Government intend to step up investment and support for research and development in this area, in the interests of our own national security?
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Young People not in Education, Employment or Training
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Young People not in Education, Employment or Training
I associate myself with your comments, Mr Speaker, and those of the Secretary of State. Figures quoted today by the BBC suggest that as many as one in five young people in education may not be attending college courses regularly, so the situation may be even worse than outlined in the Milburn report. While I welcome the Secretary of State’s commitment to a fundamental encouragement of technical education, does she think we are approaching a crisis and that we need to rethink exactly what it is that will engage our young people in education, because they are not getting from it what they need to feel prepared for their future life? If so, how will she go about that?
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I thank the hon. Member for Rochester and Strood (Lauren Edwards) for reintroducing this Bill and giving us another chance to debate the issue—although part of me regrets, as I will explain, that we have that chance. I respect everyone <span id="1374" class="column-number" data-column-number="1374"></span>who has taken the responsibility of coming here today to debate this again, and I particularly respect those who have shared their very moving personal stories with us all. Most of all, though, I respect and I would like to apologise to those who are again going through the trauma of waiting to find out whether they will have the choice. I have huge sympathy for them, because they believed when we originally passed this Bill and sent it to the other place that, if they needed it, in four years’ time they would have the choice. It would be in their hands. That hope has been snatched away from them—and not by us. We fulfilled our responsibility to the electorate. We spent hundreds of hours in Committee, in private discussions, in debates and on Report, going over this Bill in minute detail until we could, with confidence, send to the other place the best Bill we thought possible. Of course, we thought that it would amend it and bring things back, but we had fulfilled our role and respected the will of the British public. Unfortunately, when the Bill went to the other place, that was not what happened. A handful of peers blocked it.
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Sorry, I will not take interventions. Those peers did not show the same respect for the repeatedly expressed will of those who face the end of their lives.
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I do, but they are each one individual, and each of the professional organisations is neutral, and believe me, I envy them on that. We have the responsibility to make the decision. The majority of us have already said that this is the best Bill we can produce. We—the majority of us—have made that decision once already, and we sent it to the other place. If we do that again today, I hope that those in the other place listen and take that on board and that the handful of peers who blocked it—
2024 General Election: Edinburgh West
Held . Recorded result: LD Hold. Majority 16,470. 52,471 votes cast from an electorate of 76,490. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Jardine | Liberal Democrat | 26,645 | 50.8% |
| Euan Hyslop | Scottish National Party | 10,175 | 19.4% |
| Michael Davidson | Labour | 7,854 | 15.0% |
| Alastair Shields | Conservative | 2,897 | 5.5% |
| Otto Inglis | Reform UK | 2,209 | 4.2% |
| James Puchowski | Scottish Green Party | 2,100 | 4.0% |
| David Henry | Independent | 363 | 0.7% |
| Nick Hornig | Independent | 143 | 0.3% |
| Tam Laird | Scottish Libertarian Party | 85 | 0.2% |
Parliamentary career
Seats held
| Seat | Dates |
|---|---|
| Edinburgh WestElected 1 time | – present |
| Edinburgh WestElected 2 times | – |
Opposition posts 13
| Post | Dates |
|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Scotland)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Women and Equalities)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Exiting the European Union)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (International Trade)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Treasury)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Deputy Chief WhipOpposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Home Affairs)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Women and Equalities)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Scotland)Opposition Department | – |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport)Opposition Department | – |
Committee memberships 10
| Committee | Dates |
|---|---|
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | – present |
| Panel of Chairs | – present |
| Women and Equalities Committee | – present |
| Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill | – |
| Ballot Secrecy Bill [HL] | – |
| Scottish Affairs Committee | – |
| Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill | – |
| Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill | – |
| Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill | – |
| Scottish Affairs Committee | – |
Elections contested without winning
| Constituency | Date |
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| Gordon |
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