About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Patricia Ferguson) represents you, and all of the people who live in Glasgow West, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Glasgow West, Former Labour MSP for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Entered the Scottish Parliament on 6 May 1999 — Election

Left the Scottish Parliament on 23 March 2016 — Election

Also represented Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn; Glasgow Maryhill

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Defence
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Treasury
• Home Office
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• F-35 Aircraft: Procurement
• Inheritance Tax
• Social Security Benefits
• Visas: Gaza
• Council for At-risk Academics

Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (since 4 Dec 2024)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (since 5 Nov 2024)
• Chair, Scottish Affairs Committee (since 12 Sep 2024)
• Chair, Scottish Affairs Committee (since 12 Sep 2024)

Recent appearances

• Scotland: Strengthening the Union 22 Jan 2025

  May I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for helping to secure £14 million of levelling up funds for the area of Drumchapel in my constituency of Glasgow West? Does he agree that given the record settlement that the Scottish Government have received from the UK Government, it is about time that they went ahead and sorted out the problems of under-provision and overcrowding in...

• Scotland: Strengthening the Union 22 Jan 2025

  May I thank my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for helping to secure £14 million of levelling up funds for the area of Drumchapel in my constituency of Glasgow West? Does he agree that given the record settlement that the Scottish Government have received from the UK Government, it is about time that they went ahead and sorted out the problems of under-provision and overcrowding in...

• Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill 17 Jan 2025

  It was said earlier that the fact that last year’s general election occurred during the Scottish school holidays meant that, in the chaos and confusion that happens in most households preparing to go on holiday, voting fell off the agenda for a lot of people who had perhaps thought about applying for a postal vote but not got around to doing it. Does my hon. Friend agree that, were another...

More of Patricia Ferguson’s recent appearances

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