About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Colum Eastwood) represents you, and all of the people who live in Foyle, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Social Democratic and Labour Party MP for Foyle, Former Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Foyle

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

Entered the Assembly on 6 May 2011 — election

Left the Assembly on 12 December 2019 — Resigned

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @columeastwood
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Northern Ireland Office
• Treasury
• Home Office
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Coronavirus: Northern Ireland
• Iron and Steel: Northern Ireland
• Students: Coronavirus
• Addictions: Northern Ireland
• Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (28 Jun 2021 to 6 Jul 2021)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Elisha McCallion
• Mark Durkan
• John Hume

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Northern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Northern Ireland: New Decade, New Approach: Addiction Services Funding 21 May 2025

  What discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on funding for an addiction treatment centre in Derry, in the context of the New Decade, New Approach agreement, published on 9 January 2020.

• Northern Ireland: New Decade, New Approach: Addiction Services Funding 21 May 2025

  The people of Derry were made a promise during the NDNA negotiations. I remember, because I negotiated that particular part of it. They were promised that the Northlands addiction treatment centre would be given £1 million for the development of a brand-new addiction centre. The Northlands organisation has saved countless lives in Derry, but it has now been told by the Department of Health...

• Written Answers — Home Office: Refugees: Palestinians 20 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a resettlement scheme for Palestinian refugees seeking to join family members resident in the UK.

More of Colum Eastwood’s recent appearances

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