Jeremy Hunt: Is He Still an MP, His NHS Record and Latest News

Party: Conservative · Constituency: Godalming and Ash · Chancellor of the Exchequer: 14 October 2022 to 5 July 2024 · Current Health Secretary: Yvette Cooper, from 20 July 2026

Six rows, one pattern: the office dates trace back to official pages, and the gaps sit exactly where personal and publishing details should be.

Is Jeremy Hunt still an MP?

Godalming and Ash seat

• Hunt was still an MP at a June 2026 interview, which Mishcon de Reya’s interview page describes as one of very few Conservative MPs to weather recent storms.
• He was reselected as the Conservative candidate for Godalming and Ash ahead of the next general election (Alton Herald local news report).

Continuous service since 2005

• Parliament’s record shows him elected for South West Surrey on 5 May 2005 and re-elected for Godalming and Ash on 4 July 2024 after boundary changes (UK Parliament member biography).
• The Institute for Government gives 1997 as the start of his Commons career, according to its Institute for Government interview record, which conflicts with the 2005 date.

The implication: the seat is settled, but the start date of his parliamentary career is not, so any headline that gives a different year should be checked against the Parliament record first.

What did Jeremy Hunt do to the NHS?

Health Secretary tenure, 2012 to 2018

• Parliament’s record gives 6 September 2012 as his first appointment as Secretary of State for Health (UK Parliament member biography).
• The Institute for Government describes his Health Secretary years as 2012 to 2018 (Institute for Government interview record).
• Hunt told the Thirlwall Inquiry that the Lucy Letby murders happened on his watch as Health Secretary (Nursing Times health coverage).

Policy record and criticism

• Hunt introduced an Ofsted-style inspection system for NHS providers through the Care Quality Commission, which he called the most significant decision of his tenure (Institute for Government interview record).
• Changes to junior doctors’ contracts led to strike action in 2016 (Politics.co.uk political profile).
• He said he pushed through an NHS productivity programme in exchange for £3.4 billion to overhaul NHS IT systems, with a commitment to 2% annual productivity growth (Institute for Government interview record).

The implication: a Health Secretary is measured by what he answered for, not only by what he launched, and Hunt’s own words put that burden on the post.

What is Jeremy Hunt doing these days?

Current parliamentary role

• According to the Wikipedia biography entry, Hunt confirmed on 31 October 2024 that he would stand down from the shadow cabinet after a new Conservative leader was elected.
• He was appointed Vice Chair of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation Governance Board on 28 May 2026, according to a press release carried by The Globe and Mail, which also lists him as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Patient Safety.

Recent public activity

• His constituency office reports that the Milford Hospital bus link and Ash Vale step-free access were confirmed in January 2026 (Hunt’s official website local news).
• In an ambulance station review, Hunt said he had received assurances that ambulances would respond to emergencies from Farnborough and that no stations would close until an alternative was in place (BBC News regional coverage).
• In a constituency update dated 26 October 2026, he said he introduced named GPs for over-75s as Health Secretary and called for bringing back family doctors (Hunt’s constituency update).
• The University of Staffordshire announced on 2 November 2026 that he will receive an honorary doctorate for his commitment to patient safety (University of Staffordshire announcement).

The catch: most of this activity is self-published or announced by the institution involved, so the dates are firm but the outcomes have not been tested by independent reporting.

Has Jeremy Hunt published a new book?

Title and publisher

• No book title or publisher is confirmed in the supplied sources.
• Any title should be checked against the publisher’s own listing before it is reported as fact.

Publication date

• No publication date can be verified from the material reviewed for this page.
• A dated claim about a book needs its own publisher record, not a secondary mention.

The catch: the question sounds simple, but none of the sources reviewed carries a publisher listing, so a yes answer would be a guess.

What did Miriam Margolyes say about Jeremy Hunt?

The reported remarks

Hunt’s response

• The supplied inputs do not confirm the content of Margolyes’ remarks about Hunt.
• No dated, named response from Hunt to Margolyes appears in the same inputs.

The implication: readers searching this name will find a celebrity feud with no confirmed text, so the accurate answer is that the record is empty, not that a specific remark was made.

For Godalming and Ash residents, national NHS decisions now come from Yvette Cooper’s department rather than from Hunt’s constituency office, so readers should check the GOV.UK ministers list before believing any claim from the celebrity disputes.

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