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Mick Whitley is a former MP for Birkenhead.

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Profile

Former Labour MP for Birkenhead

Entered the House of Commons on 13 December 2019 — General election

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Treasury
• Question
• Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
• Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
• Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
• Employment: Coronavirus

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 19 Mar 2024)
• Member, High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee ( 6 Mar 2024 to 13 Mar 2024)
• Member, Transport Committee (20 Nov 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Energy Security and Net Zero Committee (20 Nov 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Procurement Bill [HL] Committee (25 Jan 2023 to 21 Feb 2023)
• Member, Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee ( 2 Mar 2022 to 22 Mar 2022)
• Member, Professional Qualifications Bill [HL] Committee (12 Jan 2022 to 18 Jan 2022)
• Member, Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 14 Dec 2021)
• Member, Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 25 Nov 2021)
• Member, Subsidy Control Bill Committee (20 Oct 2021 to 18 Nov 2021)
• Member, Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill Committee ( 1 Jul 2021 to 8 Jul 2021)
• 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)
• Member, International Trade Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 26 Apr 2023)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Frank Field
• Edmund Dell
• Percy Collick
• Alfred Bigland
• Henry Vivian
• Elliott Lees
• Bury
• Edward Hamley
• David MacIver
• John Laird
• David MacIver
• John Laird

Future MPs in this constituency

• Alison McGovern

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Automated Vehicles Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• Procurement Bill Committee (3 out of 9)
• Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Subsidy Control Bill Committee (8 out of 11)
• Professional Qualifications Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill Committee (1 out of 6)
• Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee (0 out of 5)
• Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Royal Fleet Auxiliary 23 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to introduce minimum service requirements in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

• Written Answers — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Energy: Standing Charges 25 Mar 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has had discussions with energy suppliers on taking steps to reduce the daily standing charges for gas and electricity in (a) North Wales and (b) Merseyside to at least the national average.

• Written Answers — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Energy: Standing Charges 25 Mar 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2024 to Question 13068 on Energy: Standing Charges, whether her Department has had discussions with Ofgem on the equitability of daily standing charges for gas and electricity in (a) North Wales and (b) Merseyside.

More of Mick Whitley’s recent appearances