Profile

Former Labour Member of the London Assembly for Greater London, Former Labour MP for Hendon

Entered the House of Commons on 1 May 1997 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 12 April 2010 — General election (stood again)

Entered the London Assembly on 3 May 2012 — Election

Left the London Assembly on 7 May 2021 — Election

Also represented Hendon

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Topics of interest

• Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• Health
• Home Department
• Education and Skills
• Constitutional Affairs
• Cyprus
• Cyprus: Community Relations
• Fire Services
• National Institute for Medical Research
• Chinese Community: Greater London

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Liaison Committee ( 1 Nov 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Chairman, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (20 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (14 Jul 2005 to 20 Jul 2005)
• Member, Standards and Privileges Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 11 May 2010)
• Member, Standards and Privileges Committee (28 May 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (28 May 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Holocaust (Stolen Art) Restitution Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Damages (Asbestos-Related Conditions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Divorce (Religious Marriages) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Questions to the Mayor of London — Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety: Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety 11 May 2021

  Do you agree that evidence at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 is a damning indictment of privatisation, de-regulation and the pursuit of profit over public safety?

• Questions to the Mayor of London — Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety: Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety 11 May 2021

  Thank you for your kind comments at the beginning and for your very full answer. It is a case, is it not, that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 has put into sharp focus ineffective regulation of the building control that allowed - can even be said encouraged - profiteering at the expense of safety by installing flammable cladding on Grenfell and, as we now know, on hundreds of other...

• Questions to the Mayor of London — Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety: Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 and Public Safety 11 May 2021

  I am pleased to see that you do agree the Government’s response has been piecemeal because that is what I was going to put to you. Years on, it still has not bottomed out the consequences of these scandalous failures. It started with a woefully inadequate fund for aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, then a second fund for other dangerous cladding, then an extension of that fund,...

More of Andrew Dismore’s recent appearances