About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Wes Streeting) represents you, and all of the people who live in Ilford North, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Ilford North

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @wesstreeting

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Wes Streeting campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Treasury
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Home Office
• Surgery: Waiting Lists
• Coronavirus: Screening
• Schools: Coronavirus
• Hospitals: Construction
• Cancer: Health Services

Currently held offices

• Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (since 5 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (29 Nov 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Child Poverty ( 9 May 2021 to 29 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Education) (Schools) (16 Oct 2020 to 9 May 2021)
• Shadow Exchequer Secretary (Treasury) (10 Apr 2020 to 16 Oct 2020)
• Member, Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union ( 2 Mar 2020 to 16 Jan 2021)
• Member, Treasury Sub-Committee (14 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Treasury Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Treasury Committee ( 8 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Lee Scott
• Linda Perham
• Vivian Bendall
• Millie Miller
• Tom Iremonger
• Geoffrey Hutchinson
• Mabel Ridealgh

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Higher Education and Research Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Finance Bill Committee (3 out of 6)
• Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill Committee (5 out of 10)
• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 6)

Recent appearances

• Health and Social Care: Winter Update 15 Jan 2025

  Where to begin, Madam Deputy Speaker? The shadow Health Secretary does a really good line in diagnosing the problem as if these are somehow new facts to him, or to the country. In fact, one does not have to be a Minister of long service in this House, or indeed a Member of long service, to remember that only a short matter of months ago, the shadow Secretary of State was a Minister in the...

• Health and Social Care: Winter Update 15 Jan 2025

  I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, and thank her for the work she has been doing this winter on the NHS frontline, providing support to her colleagues at her local hospital—literally rolling her sleeves up and looking after people. She is absolutely right that we need an urgent and emergency care plan to make sure we see continued year-on-year improvements. I can reassure my hon....

• Health and Social Care: Winter Update 15 Jan 2025

  I thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for her usual constructive contribution to proceedings. She is absolutely right to raise the issue of variation in performance across different parts of the country. It is not acceptable, and one thing we will be doing as a Government is to ensure that, as well as creating a rising tide that lifts all ships, we raise the floor in performance so that...

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