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Alison Thewliss is a former MP for Glasgow Central.

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Former Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow Central

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

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

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @alisonthewliss
• https://facebook.com/AlisonThewlissSNP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Alison Thewliss campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Office
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Treasury
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Members: Correspondence
• Social Security Benefits: Children
• Infant Foods
• Jobcentres: Glasgow
• Sanitary Protection: VAT

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Home Affairs Committee (28 Mar 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Home Affairs) (12 Dec 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill Committee (19 Oct 2022 to 29 Nov 2022)
• Member, Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 16 Jan 2023)
• Member, Treasury Committee Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (20 Jun 2022 to 20 Jun 2022)
• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee ( 8 Dec 2021 to 11 Jan 2022)
• Member, Treasury Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 16 Jan 2023)
• Member, Treasury Committee (10 Jun 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill (Joint Committee) (19 Feb 2019 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government) ( 1 Jul 2018 to 7 Jan 2020)
• Member, Procedure Committee (20 Nov 2017 to 24 Jun 2019)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Treasury) (20 Jun 2017 to 12 Dec 2022)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (13 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Cities) (20 May 2015 to 1 Jul 2018)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Anas Sarwar
• Mohammad Sarwar
• Mike Watson
• Robert McTaggart
• Thomas McMillan
• James McInnes
• James Hutchison
• William Alexander
• Bonar Law
• John Macleod
• Charles Dickson
• Andrew Torrance
• John Baird
• Gilbert Beith

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

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

• Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill Committee (16 out of 19)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Financial Services Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Finance Bill Committee (6 out of 10)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Financial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill Committee Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Homelessness Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Finance Bill Committee (5 out of 6)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Gaza and Israel: International Law 24 May 2024

  To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the joint statement by international NGOs on humanitarian law in Gaza published by Amnesty International on 15 May 2024.

• Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism 22 May 2024

  I thank the Labour Front-Bench spokesperson, the hon. Member for Barnsley Central (Dan Jarvis), for his kind words about Scotland. I was rather worried, given the lengths he was going to, that I might not get back to Scotland this evening. In responding to this statutory instrument today, I very much welcome the engagement that the Home Office has had with the Scottish Government and...

• Immigration and Asylum 22 May 2024

  I stand to speak to this motion on behalf of the SNP—but not on behalf of the Lib Dems, who have clearly chickened out and run away, and not for the first time. I am very proud to say that I support immigration, which is an economic good. We thank people for coming here and contributing their best talents and skills to this country—they contribute so very much. It is an act of absolutely...

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