About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Stephen Morgan) represents you, and all of the people who live in Portsmouth South, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Portsmouth South

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

Social Media

• @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social
• @stephenmorganmp
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Ministry of Defence
• Home Office
• National Tutoring Programme
• Schools: Buildings
• Question
• Schools: Coronavirus
• Israel: Palestinians

Currently held offices

• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (since 9 Jul 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Defence) (Armed Forces and Defence Procurement) (since 16 Jan 2020)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) ( 6 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Education) (Schools) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 6 Sep 2023)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (25 Feb 2021 to 14 Apr 2021)
• Member, Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (22 Feb 2021 to 22 Feb 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Defence) (16 Jan 2020 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Shadow Minister for Local Government (Communities) (17 Jul 2019 to 10 Apr 2020)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (20 Nov 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Flick Drummond
• Mike Hancock
• David Martin
• Mike Hancock
• Bonner Pink
• Jocelyn Lucas
• Herbert Cayzer
• Leslie Wilson
• Herbert Cayzer

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Armed Forces Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Rating (Property in Common Occupation) and Council Tax (Empty Dwellings) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Non-Domestic Rating (Lists) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Offensive Weapons Bill Committee (8 out of 10)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Students: Artificial Intelligence 9 May 2025

  The department policy paper on generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education sets out some of the opportunities and risks education establishments should be aware of when considering generative AI technologies, including use of AI in assessments. The policy paper can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/generative-artifi...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Pre-school Education: Sleep 9 May 2025

  The early years workforce is at the heart of the government’s mission to give every child the best start in life and deliver our Plan for Change. The department is providing a range of high-quality support and training for early years educators and leaders, building a stronger, more expert workforce, to enable nursery settings to deliver quality early education, including our online early...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Sanitary Products 9 May 2025

  I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Leeds and Central Headingley to the answer of 4 March 2025 to Question 30133.

More of Stephen Morgan’s recent appearances