Sutton Coldfield is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative.

Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.

Their lowest majority prior to the 2024 Labour landslide election was achieved in 2001, which still stood at a healthy 10,000 and a 50.4% share of the vote, and enabled Andrew Mitchell to make his return to Parliament.

Former Cabinet minister Sir Norman Fowler served the seat from 1974 until retiring as an MP in 2001.

Andrew Mitchell, MP here since 2001 and previously MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997, was Secretary of State for International Development then briefly Conservative Chief Whip while in Coalition Government 2010-2015, until standing down after swearing at police while attempting to take his bicycle through the main gates of Downing Street in 2012.