Andrew John Reed OBE (born 17 September 1964) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament for the key marginal Constituency of Loughborough from 1997 to 2010.

[9] Reed was brought up and educated in Leicestershire spending the first two years of his life on the Netherhall Estate in Leicester before moving to Birstall.

His 1997 election followed boundary changes which saw the previous incumbent, Conservative Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell move with his key rural voters to the newly created Charnwood constituency.

In 2001 he was returned with an increased majority of 6,300[12] and became the PPS to Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett, but resigned in 2003 in protest at the Government's decision to support a US-led invasion of Iraq without a United Nations resolution.

[9][13] He retained his seat in the 2005 election but with a reduced majority of 1,996,[12] and was recalled to the Government to be a PPS to the Treasury ministerial team, working with the Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo.

He stood down from the role of PPS in 2007 when Gordon Brown became Leader of the Labour Party to return to the backbenches as a member of parliament.

His most frequent questions related to the Olympics, Hearing Impairment, Physical Activity, Education Funding and Sunday Trading.

[19] In The Guardian newspaper, Andrew Roth described Reed as an "Over eager Blair loyalist and stooge questioner"[20] and his Parliamentary voting record -as would be expected from a "largely loyal" MP -has generally been in support of the Government.

[23] On 9 March, he resigned over the imminent invasion of Iraq[9] though his website made it clear that he supported continued efforts to find a solution through the United Nations.

"[31]A Loughborough Echo investigation showed Reed lived "in a small one bedroom flat" and the difference was due to utility bills, council tax and a quarterly service charge,[32] a total cost of £807 per month and already well within the £1,450 a month limit introduced a year later in the wake of the scandal.

The problem arose when they wrote and said they would withhold a proportion of my expenses for a month because they had lost an invoice for the service charge.