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
• https://facebook.com/MarieRimmer

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
• *No heading*
• Information Commissioner

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)

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

Recent appearances

• Debate on the Address: [1st Day] 17 Jul 2024

  It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn). May I congratulate all Members who have been returned to the House of Commons, and in particularly I congratulate and welcome all the new Members. I wish them every success and happiness in their time in the House. The Humble Address was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Bootle (Peter Dowd), a...

• Written Answers — Home Office: British National (Overseas): British Nationality 24 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to support people from Hong Kong with British National (Overseas) visas to apply for British citizenship to help ensure they are able to access pensions managed by (a) HSBC and (b) other UK-based pension providers.

• Ukraine 20 May 2024

  For more than two years Ukrainians have been fighting this war on behalf of us all. The brave Ukrainians are fighting for our shared values. They are fighting for our democracy, for our freedom, and indeed for Europe’s freedom. Many of those brave Ukrainians have made the ultimate sacrifice. Women and children have paid with unspeakable suffering and death. We are not dying each day to...

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