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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Leeds Central and Headingley

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

Also represented Leeds North West

Social Media

• @alexsobel

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Asylum
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Armed Forces: Housing
• Social Enterprises: Tax Allowances
• Asylum: Finance

Currently held offices

• Member, Human Rights (Joint Committee) (since 13 Nov 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (15 Jan 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation (15 Jan 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Shark Fins Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2022 to 16 Nov 2022)
• Member, Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) Committee ( 2 Nov 2022 to 29 Nov 2022)
• Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 5 Sep 2023)
• Member, Highgate Cemetery Bill Committee (21 Jun 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Monken Hadley Common Bill Unopposed Bill Committee (16 Jun 2021 to 17 Nov 2020)
• Member, Highgate Cemetery Bill Committee (16 Jun 2021 to 16 Jun 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (10 Apr 2020 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 22 Feb 2021)
• Member, Backbench Business Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Environmental Audit Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) Committee (1 out of 1)
• Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Shark Fins Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Environment Bill Committee (6 out of 22)
• Finance (No.3) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Ivory Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Rivers Authorities and Land Drainage Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Frozen Russian Assets: Ukraine 6 Jan 2025

  I thank the hon. Gentleman for securing the debate, and for the wonderful way that he has started his speech. It is important to recognise that the abduction of children from Ukraine—from Crimea and the Donbas—did not start in 2022; it started in 2014. It has been going on for 11 years. The figures that he gives are broadly correct, I think, from meetings that I have had with Crimea...

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Kenya: Development Aid 23 Dec 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much overseas aid funding his Department disbursed to (a) the Kenyan government and (b) Kenyan civil society organisations in financial year (i) 2022-2023 and (ii) 2023-2024.

• Defence Committee 19 Dec 2024

  I wish you a merry Yorkshire Christmas, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank my hon. Friend for the Committee’s report. As we are admitting things, let me say that, in the 1980s, I, too, lived in armed services accommodation for a brief period. It is important for us to remember how many children live in armed services accommodation. I have been raising this issue since 2018, at the time of the...

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