About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Abena Oppong-Asare) represents you, and all of the people who live in Erith and Thamesmead, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Erith and Thamesmead

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Department for Education
• Home Office
• Treasury: Darlington
• Business: Coronavirus
• Railways: Timetables
• Schools: Coronavirus
• Efficiencies and Value for Money Committee

Currently held offices

• The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (since 9 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (Women's Health and Mental Health) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (10 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)
• Member, UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] Committee (16 Nov 2022 to 22 Nov 2022)
• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee ( 8 Dec 2021 to 11 Jan 2022)
• Shadow Exchequer Secretary (Treasury) (16 Oct 2020 to 5 Sep 2023)
• Member, Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 22 Feb 2021)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Teresa Pearce
• John Austin

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Finance No. 2 Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• UK Infrastructure Bank Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Agriculture Bill Committee (10 out of 12)
• Financial Services Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Environment Bill Committee (6 out of 22)
• Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Emergencies: Planning 14 Mar 2025

  The first duty of the Government is to keep the country safe and we are working to strengthen our national resilience, including by working with international partners. In April the UK Resilience Academy will be launched and will train over 4000 people a year and later this year we will undertake a full national pandemic response exercise. The review of national resilience continues....

• Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Elections: Subversion 12 Mar 2025

  We are committed to ensuring we have robust systems in place to defend the UK from all forms of malign state interference in UK democratic processes. The Defending Democracy Taskforce brings together Ministers from across Government, along with representatives from law enforcement and the intelligence community, to coordinate a programme of work that aims to protect UK political parties,...

• Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Cybercrime: Russia 10 Mar 2025

  The UK Government does not comment upon operational security matters.

More of Abena Oppong-Asare’s recent appearances

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