About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Jo Platt) represents you, and all of the people who live in Leigh and Atherton, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Leigh and Atherton

Entered the House of Commons on 9 June 2017 — General election

Also represented Leigh

Social Media

• @joplatt.bsky.social
• @JoPlattMP
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Cabinet Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Digital
• Culture
• Media and Sport
• Department for Exiting the European Union
• Department for Education
• Cybercrime
• Brexit
• Huawei: 5G
• Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
• GP at Hand

Currently held offices

• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)
• Member, Modernisation Committee (since 9 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (20 Mar 2025 to 13 May 2025)
• Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office) (10 Jul 2018 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (11 Dec 2017 to 23 Jul 2018)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( 4 Dec 2017 to 11 Dec 2017)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Crime and Policing Bill Committee (13 out of 15)

Recent appearances

• Future of the Post Office 14 Jul 2025

  I welcome the Minister’s statement, and the announcement of a national dialogue about the future of our Post Office. As a fellow Co-operative party Member, I welcome the model of mutualisation, which would also suit our local branch. Given the decline of Leigh’s high street, the announcement of changes to our main post office was a major concern. Can he reassure staff in Leigh that they...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Dementia: Health Services 14 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce a National Services Framework for dementia.

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Child Maintenance Service: Standards 10 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Child Maintenance Service’s approach to domestic abuse on the Government’s mission to halve violence against women and girls.

More of Jo Platt’s recent appearances