About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Marie Rimmer) represents you, and all of the people who live in St Helens South and Whiston, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for St Helens South and Whiston

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @MarieRimmerMP
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Marie Rimmer campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Ministry of Justice
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Communities and Local Government
• Data Protection
• Non-domestic Rates: Greater London
• Children: Day Care
• Mediation
• Non-domestic Rates

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill Committee (15 May 2024 to 22 May 2024)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (29 Jan 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (10 Jan 2024 to 30 Jan 2024)
• Member, Powers of Attorney Bill Committee (22 Feb 2023 to 1 Mar 2023)
• Member, British Sign Language Bill Committee ( 9 Feb 2022 to 23 Feb 2022)
• Member, Building Safety Bill Committee ( 9 Sep 2021 to 26 Oct 2021)
• Member, Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill Committee ( 1 Jul 2021 to 8 Jul 2021)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) (14 Apr 2020 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Member, Justice Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 May 2020)
• Member, Justice Committee ( 5 Feb 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Disabled People) ( 1 Feb 2017 to 9 Oct 2017)
• Member, Justice Committee (26 Oct 2015 to 13 Mar 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Shaun Woodward

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (6 out of 10)
• Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Powers of Attorney Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Building Safety Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• British Sign Language Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Education (Guidance About Costs of School Uniforms) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Chinese Embassy Development 9 Jun 2025

  I am sure that the Minister can understand the sensitivity of how we all feel about this. China has a track record of aggressive state-backed espionage. Surely this country cannot afford to make a massive underestimation of the risk, should this go ahead as expected. Experts warn that there could be the foreign leverage of signals, interception and monitoring of sensitive Government and...

• Chinese Embassy Development 9 Jun 2025

  I am sure that the Minister can understand the sensitivity of how we all feel about this. China has a track record of aggressive state-backed espionage. Surely this country cannot afford to make a massive underestimation of the risk, should this go ahead as expected. Experts warn that there could be the foreign leverage of signals, interception and monitoring of sensitive Government and...

• Great British Energy Bill: Clause 3 - Objects 25 Mar 2025

  The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 do not work in this area. To do anything, two criteria must be met, and they are only advisory. In the World Health Organisation, we had to prove that organ harvesting was not an “ethical organ transplant system”, and we cannot get to the supply chains, which are state-invented, state-imposed and disguised. I urge the Minister to...

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