About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Ian Byrne) represents you, and all of the people who live in Liverpool West Derby, 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 MP for Liverpool West Derby

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

Party was Labour until 24 Jul 2024; Independent until 5 Feb 2025

Also represented Liverpool, West Derby

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

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 Work and Pensions
• HM Passport Office: Staff
• Coronavirus: Vaccination
• Child Benefit
• Coronavirus: Screening
• HM Passport Office: ICT

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Football Governance Bill Committee ( 8 May 2024 to 23 May 2024)
• Member, Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill Committee (14 Dec 2022 to 11 Jan 2023)
• Member, Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill Committee (20 Jul 2022 to 7 Sep 2022)
• Member, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL] Committee ( 1 Dec 2021 to 9 Dec 2021)
• Member, Building Safety Bill Committee ( 9 Sep 2021 to 26 Oct 2021)
• Member, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (11 May 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Football Governance Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Building Safety Bill Committee (15 out of 16)
• Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 16 May 2025

  Children’s Hospices (Funding) Bill: Second Reading – Ian Byrne. Private Members' Bills

• Gaza: UK Assessment 14 May 2025

  The Minister has touched on the UK Government supplying the global pool of components for F-35 jets for international security and peace. Considering that we are seeing the live-streaming of a genocide against the Palestinian people—F-35s are a crucial part of that, and are being used to bomb civilian camps and hospitals—are the Government considering whether Israel, given its actions,...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cataracts: Surgery 14 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the quality of lenses used by private providers of NHS cataract surgery.

More of Ian Byrne’s recent appearances