Jeremy Quin was not returned to Parliament in the General Election held on 4th July 2024. His biographical details prior to the election are set out below:
Jeremy Quin was first elected as the Member of Parliament for the Horsham constituency in May 2015 and re-elected in June 2017 and again in December 2019.
He is actively engaged in the constituency at every level. In Westminster he is particularly focused on issues impacting the constituency. 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.
He is a keen supporter of airport expansion at Heathrow rather than Gatwick. He believes that expansion at Heathrow is in the national interest - and prevents having to mitigate the huge strain on local infrastructure that the construction of a new runway at Gatwick would create. While Jeremy supports the jobs and economic benefit that Gatwick brings to our area he continues to represent constituents on issues such as aircraft noise.
Jeremy was selected by the Parliamentary Conservative Party to serve 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.
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 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 the demands for changes to private company governance to protect employees and pensioners.
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. On forming his new administration in July 2019 the Prime Minister recommended Jeremy to serve as "Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household" (a post in the Royal Household dating back to the 14th century). The post is now a senior role in the Whips Office. As Comptroller Jeremy also had specific duties on various Royal occasions, such as the State Opening of Parliament.
In December 2019, the Prime Minister promoted Jeremy to be Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office. At the subsequent Ministerial Reshuffle in February 2020 Jeremy took on the role of Minister of State in the MOD with responsibilities across Defence and with a specific role in Defence Procurement. During his period in office he launched the Defence Industrial Strategy and a funded equipment plan to modernise our Armed Forces: as well as launching a shipbuilding and land strategy, Space Command and a Defence Sustainability Strategy among other key tasks. In September 2022, Jeremy was made Minister of State in the Home Office, with responsibility for Policing, Fire and Tackling Crime. When Rishi Sunak was appointed Prime Minister Jeremy moved to become Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office and attends Cabinet. He was also on appointment sworn in as a member of His Majesty’s Privy Council.
In November 2023 Jeremy stepped down from Government. In January 2024, he was knighted in the New Year's Honours and in the same month elected as Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. This role enables him to speak not only on behalf of constituents but as the voice of the Defence Committee on matters of key importance for the future of the United Kingdom. The Chairman is elected by the House of Commons as a whole.