About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Dan Norris) represents you, and all of the people who live in North East Somerset and Hanham, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

What you can do

• Find out more about your MP, including their voting summary, register of interests and recent speeches.
• Write to your MP, or find out about your other local representatives on WriteToThem.com.
• Find out more about North East Somerset and Hanham on the Local Intelligence Hub.

Profile

Labour MP for North East Somerset and Hanham

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

Also represented Wansdyke

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Education and Skills
• Home Department
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Work and Pensions
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Palestine
• Education Provision(Bath and North East Somerset)
• Middle East
• Key Stage Tests
• Public Libraries: Internet

Other offices held in the past

• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (10 Jun 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Rural Affairs and Environment) ( 9 Jun 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Members' Allowances Committee (10 Feb 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Member, Members' Allowances Committee ( 9 Feb 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• PPS (Rt Hon David Miliband, Secretary of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (28 Jun 2007 to 16 Jan 2009)
• PPS (Rt Hon Peter Hain, Secretary of State), Northern Ireland Office ( 8 May 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (14 Jul 2005 to 18 Jul 2006)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (12 Jul 2005 to 17 Jul 2006)
• Assistant Whip (12 Jun 2001 to 13 Jun 2003)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (12 Jun 2001 to 13 Jun 2003)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill Committee (12 out of 12)

Recent appearances

• Local Government: Nolan Principles 11 Mar 2025

  Will the Minister address my point about interim officers, or perhaps write to me if there is not time today?

• Local Government: Nolan Principles 11 Mar 2025

  The Nolan principles also apply to officers working in the public sector. I am a regional mayor, as well as a Member. I am aware that a regional mayor in the east of England is currently talking with a chief constable about officers under the previous mayor making decisions that should have been made by politicians—in other words, the normal rules and policies seemingly being circumvented....

• Written Answers — Home Office: Animal Experiments: Dogs 4 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2025 to Question 24409 on Animal Experiments: Dogs, what the evidential basis is for stating that tests of procedures on dogs predict the safety of conducting the equivalent procedures on humans with up to 96% accuracy.

More of Dan Norris’s recent appearances

RSS feed (?)