About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Andrew Slaughter) represents you, and all of the people who live in Hammersmith and Chiswick, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Hammersmith and Chiswick

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Also represented Hammersmith; Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush

• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @hammersmithandy.bsky.social
• @hammersmithandy
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Andrew Slaughter campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Justice
• Justice
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Home Office
• Legal Costs
• Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs
• Training
• Legal Aid Scheme
• Personal Injury

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 2 Dec 2024)
• Chair, Justice Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Justice Committee (since 11 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Chair, Justice Committee (11 Sep 2024 to 17 May 2022)
• Chair, Justice Committee (11 Sep 2024 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 20 Feb 2024)
• Shadow Solicitor General ( 4 Dec 2021 to 15 Nov 2023)
• Member, Animal (Penalty Notices) Bill Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 8 Dec 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Justice) (29 Oct 2021 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Member, Judicial Review and Courts Bill (27 Oct 2021 to 23 Nov 2021)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) ( 6 Jul 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Justice Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 Sep 2024)
• Member, Justice Committee ( 8 May 2019 to 11 Sep 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Housing) (21 Oct 2016 to 29 Jun 2017)
• Shadow Minister (Justice) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 27 Jun 2016)
• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (26 Jul 2010 to 2 Nov 2010)
• Member, London Regional Select Committee (14 Dec 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 2 Nov 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (29 Jan 2008 to 16 Oct 2008)
• Member, Children, Schools and Families Committee ( 9 Nov 2007 to 2 Nov 2009)
• PPS (Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( 7 Nov 2007 to 7 Nov 2007)
• PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform ( 7 Nov 2007 to 16 Oct 2008)
• PPS (Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office ( 7 Nov 2007 to 16 Jan 2009)
• PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (11 Oct 2007 to 25 Oct 2007)
• PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (26 Jul 2007 to 26 Jul 2007)
• PPS (Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (23 Jul 2007 to 23 Jul 2007)
• PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (23 Jul 2007 to 7 Nov 2007)
• PPS (Sir Digby Jones, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (16 Jul 2007 to 23 Jul 2007)
• PPS (Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (16 Jul 2007 to 7 Nov 2007)
• PPS (Sir Digby Jones, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (28 Jun 2007 to 23 Jul 2007)
• PPS (Lord Malloch Brown, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (28 Jun 2007 to 16 Jul 2007)
• PPS (Dr Stephen Ladyman, Minister of State), Department for Transport (10 Nov 2005 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (12 Jul 2005 to 26 Nov 2007)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Judicial Review and Courts Bill Committee (11 out of 11)
• Animals (Penalty Notices) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Fire Safety Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Homelessness Reduction Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Offender Rehabilitation Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Criminal Justice and Courts Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Justice and Security Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Defamation Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims (Amendment) bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill Committee (18 out of 18)
• Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Health Bill Committee (8 out of 9)
• Law Commission Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Housing and Regeneration Bill Committee (14 out of 17)
• Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Greater London Authority Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Vehicle Registration Marks Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Road Safety Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 4)
• Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  I will speak briefly and cover just three points. I do not expect to persuade those committed to opposing the Bill to change their minds; I hope that I do not persuade those supporting it to change theirs. This is the time to put our concluded thoughts on the record before seeking their lordships’ opinions. I start where I finished my speech on Second Reading: agency. Since that debate last...

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  I am not going to give way. The obvious qualification to what should be a clear and personal choice to leave life in a matter and at a time of one’s choosing is the risk of coercion, and that has rightly dominated much of the debate for the past eight months. There are two points to be made here. First, great effort has been expended, and is reflected in amendments to the Bill, to make the...

• Solicitor General: Non-violent Drug-related Offences: Prosecution 19 Jun 2025

  Given that the independent sentencing review suggests that more use could be made of community sentences in such cases, but courts seem reluctant to use them as an alternative to custody, what can the Law Officers do to ensure that sentencers have confidence in community sentences, which have better outcomes than imprisonment in reducing reoffending?

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