About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Peter Dowd) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bootle, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Bootle

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

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @peter_dowd
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Peter Dowd campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• HM Treasury
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Tax Avoidance
• Question
• Agriculture: Subsidies
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Screening
• Stamp Duty Land Tax: Tax Allowances

Currently held offices

• Member, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (since 11 Dec 2024)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (since 30 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill ( 8 May 2024 to 15 May 2024)
• Member, Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] Committee (28 Feb 2024 to 7 Mar 2024)
• Member, Pet Abduction Bill Committee (24 Jan 2024 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, Criminal Justice Bill Committee ( 6 Dec 2023 to 30 Jan 2024)
• Member, Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill Committee ( 7 Jun 2023 to 11 Jul 2023)
• Member, Child Support (Enforcement) Bill Committee (22 Feb 2023 to 1 Mar 2023)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• Member, Electricity and Gas Transmission (Compensation) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• Member, Shark Fins Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2022 to 16 Nov 2022)
• Member, Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 14 Dec 2021)
• Member, Panel of Chairs (22 Jun 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( 9 Feb 2017 to 6 Apr 2020)
• Shadow Financial Secretary (Treasury) ( 6 Oct 2016 to 9 Feb 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Joe Benton
• Mike Carr
• Allan Roberts
• Simon Mahon
• John Kinley
• Eric Errington
• Chichester Crookshank
• John Kinley
• Vivian Henderson
• James Burnie
• Thomas Royden
• Bonar Law
• Thomas Sandys

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Chairman, Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee (6 out of 16)
• Chairman, Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee (8 out of 29)
• Criminal Justice Bill Committee (12 out of 16)
• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Pet Abduction Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Chairman, Public Order Bill Committee (3 out of 7)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Shark Fins Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Child Support (Enforcement) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Electricity and Gas Transmission (Compensation) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill Committee (3 out of 14)
• Chairman, Building Safety Bill Committee (4 out of 16)
• Chairman, Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Chairman, Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Chairman, Glue Traps (Offences) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (4 out of 7)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• National Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance Bill Committee (5 out of 6)
• Savings (Government Contributions) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Criminal Finances Bill Committee (4 out of 6)
• Welfare Reform and Work Bill Committee (3 out of 11)
• Housing and Planning Bill Committee (15 out of 20)

Recent appearances

• Backbench Business: Humanist Marriage — [Dame Siobhain McDonagh in the Chair] 12 Jun 2025

  First of all, it is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this afternoon, Dame Siobhain. Secondly, it is also a pleasure to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) set out in this debate the reasons for humanist marriages and why they should be recognised. On the question of humanist marriages being recognised, I ask myself why they are not. What is the problem? My hon....

• Non-stun Slaughter of Animals — [Peter Dowd in the Chair] 9 Jun 2025

  Order. I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. I call Yasmin Qureshi.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Rare Diseases: Drugs 6 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of suspending the medicines repurposing programme on people affected by rare conditions.

More of Peter Dowd’s recent appearances

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