About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Yasmin Qureshi) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bolton South and Walkden, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Bolton South and Walkden

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Also represented Bolton South East

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social
• @YasminQureshiMP
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Yasmin Qureshi campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Justice
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for International Development
• Department for Education
• Burma
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Overseas Aid
• Pregnancy Tests
• Ethnic Groups: Equality

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Justice Committee (30 Apr 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee ( 7 Dec 2022 to 14 Dec 2022)
• Member, Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill Committee (30 Nov 2022 to 7 Dec 2022)
• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (28 Oct 2022 to 15 Nov 2023)
• Shadow Minister (International Development) ( 2 Sep 2020 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Shadow Minister (International Development) (10 Apr 2020 to 2 Sep 2020)
• Shadow Minister (Justice) ( 9 Oct 2016 to 10 Apr 2020)
• Member, Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee ( 5 Jan 2016 to 31 Oct 2016)
• Member, Foreign Affairs Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 31 Oct 2016)
• Member, High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill (Commons) Committee (29 Apr 2014 to 7 Jul 2015)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee ( 4 Nov 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee) (14 Jul 2011 to 12 Mar 2012)
• Member, Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (12 Jul 2011 to 12 Dec 2011)
• Member, Justice Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Voyeurism (Offences) (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Prisons and Courts Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Criminal Justice and Courts Bill Committee (6 out of 13)
• FINANCE BILL Committee (8 out of 16)
• Prisons (Property) bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform)Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [LORDS] Committee (0 out of 1)
• FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL Committee (2 out of 4)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill Committee (2 out of 6)
• Sports Grounds Safety Authority Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Home Office: Shellfish: Animal Experiments 14 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the findings of her Department's call for evidence entitled Decapods: Call for Evidence, published on 5 July 2023.

• Local Housing Need Assessment Reform — [Wera Hobhouse in the Chair] 13 May 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Horsham (John Milne) for bringing this timely debate for all of us to consider. Before I come to the main thrust of my speech, I should say that it is universally accepted that, irrespective of the Government in power, over the past 20-odd years hardly any housebuilding has happened. The last time...

• Local Housing Need Assessment Reform — [Wera Hobhouse in the Chair] 13 May 2025

  I know, but that is still not a sufficient amount. Some of those houses did not come through. There was an amount of housing that needed to be done and was not done. It was done in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, which cannot be denied. We need to build more homes, including more affordable and social homes. This is an important debate because it asks Government and builders to look at how to...

More of Yasmin Qureshi’s recent appearances