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Mhairi Black is a former MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

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Profile

Former Scottish National Party MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @MhairiBlack
• https://facebook.com/Mhairi.Black.SNP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Mhairi Black campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Scotland Office
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Home Office
• Cabinet Office
• Treasury
• Sovereignty: Scotland
• Prime Minister: Powers
• Scotland Office: Communication
• Post Office: Redundancy Pay
• Universal Credit

Other offices held in the past

• SNP Deputy Leader ( 6 Dec 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee ( 4 May 2020 to 9 Jan 2023)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Scotland) ( 7 Jan 2020 to 6 Dec 2022)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Children and Families) ( 1 Jul 2018 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Shadow SNP Deputy Spokesperson (Equalities) ( 1 Jul 2018 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Shadow SNP Deputy Spokesperson (Disabilities) ( 1 Jul 2018 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Pensions) (20 Jun 2017 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Youth affairs) (20 Jun 2017 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Douglas Alexander

Future MPs in this constituency

• Johanna Baxter

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

SNP MPs only attend sittings where the legislation pertains to Scotland.

• Financial Guidance and Claims Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Financial Guidance and Claims Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
• Pension Schemes Bill Committee (4 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Prime Minister: Engagements 24 Apr 2024

  I join in wishing the Jewish community a happy Passover and sending my condolences to the family and loved ones of Frank Field. Two years ago, when mass graves were discovered in Ukraine, this House united in condemnation and rightly treated those graves as evidence of war crimes, which Russia must be made to answer for. Yesterday, Palestinian officials uncovered two mass graves outside the...

• Prime Minister: Engagements 24 Apr 2024

  Three hundred bodies, including of the elderly and the injured, some of which had been stripped naked and mutilated, with their hands tied behind their backs. The UK’s own arms policy states that if there is even a risk that war crimes may be taking place, that is reason enough to halt the sale of arms. Given all that we know, why is the Prime Minister yet to do so?

• Iran-Israel Update 15 Apr 2024

  I echo the Prime Minister in passing on our thoughts not only to you, Mr Speaker, but to the families of the aid workers who have been killed in Gaza. I condemn the acts of violence by the Iranian regime. They are no more than a cynical attempt to exploit the suffering, pain and turmoil being experienced by people in Palestine right now. While we rightly condemn the violent acts of Iran, so...

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