Philip is married to Donna and lives in Kettering on the edge of the Ise Lodge estate near Barton Seagrave. Philip and Donna were married locally at St John's church, Cranford in June 2001, and have two young children.
Born in 1964, Philip was educated at Oxford University, where he studied Modern History and Economics, and before being elected to Parliament spent most of his work career as an industry research analyst examining the performance of water, gas and electricity companies across the UK.
Philip served over eight years in the Territorial Army, latterly as a paratrooper. In 1984, Philip spent eight months working as a volunteer teaching assistant with a Baptist Mission in Honduras, Central America.
Philip Hollobone's Experience
Philip was elected as Member of Parliament for the Kettering Constituency in May 2005 and again in May 2010.
Philip first fought Kettering for the Conservatives in 2001. He has served at various times as a school governor, an election agent, a member of Community Health Council, chairman of a police-public liaison committee, a meals-on-wheels volunteer for Age Concern and the WRVS, a committee member of Northamptonshire's Campaign to Protect Rural England, a volunteer advisor at Kettering's Citizen Advice Bureau and secretary of STOP, a non-party political campaign group opposed to the over-development of Northamptonshire.
Philip currently also serves as Borough Councillor for the residents of the Ise Lodge Ward on Kettering Borough Council having previously been the Borough Councillor for the rural Buccleuch Ward and then Pipers Hill Ward. Philip has been a member of the band of church bell ringers at Kettering Parish Church, and has rung at church towers throughout the Kettering area.
Philip is President of the Kettering Branch of the Royal British Legion, a member of the Kettering Book Society and the Kettering Civic Society, supports Kettering Town Football Club and has been an occasional player for Kettering Rugby Football Club. He is also a Trustee of Solve It, the Kettering-based solvent abuse charity and the Jeanette Crizzle Trust, which is campaigning for improved rates of organ donation. Since April 2002, Philip has been a Deputy Chairman of the Kettering Constituency Conservative Association.
Philip's Work as an MP
Since being elected, Philip has one of the best combined speaking and voting records in the House of Commons of any MP, as well as the lowest expenses. His aim is to stand up and speak out on behalf of local people. "As the local MP, my job is to be the voice of local people at Westminster, not Westminster's voice in Kettering," Philip says. "My task is to stand up and speak out for the Kettering Constituency."
In the last Parliament, Philip secured a record 22 special Parliamentary debates on issues important to local people such as building over-development in Northamptonshire, the funding of Northamptonshire Police, the lack of local NHS dentists, congestion on the A14, the future of sub post offices in Northamptonshire, the future of Kettering General Hospital, GPs in Northamptonshire, illegal immigrants, the involvement of local people in planning housing developments, help for small business in Northamptonshire during the recession, planning applications for windfarms in Northamptonshire, firework safety, the adoption of local residential roads by the county council, organ donation, and the control of immigration.
Philip is a member of the Better Off Out group of MPs campaigning for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.