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Sam Tarry is a former MP for Ilford South.

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Former Labour MP for Ilford South

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

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Business
• Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Israel: Palestinians
• Buses: Carbon Emissions
• Buses: Exhaust Emissions
• Bus Services: Finance
• Refugees: Afghanistan

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (15 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)
• Member, Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill (England and Wales) Committee (27 Oct 2021 to 3 Nov 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) ( 7 Jan 2021 to 27 Jul 2022)
• Member, Transport Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 22 Feb 2021)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Mike Gapes
• Neil Thorne
• Albert Cooper
• Arnold Shaw
• Albert Cooper
• James Ranger

Future MPs in this constituency

• Jas Athwal

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Finance No. 2 Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• National Security and Investment Bill Committee (12 out of 12)
• Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 16 May 2024

  I briefly associate myself with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) and the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Sir Charles Walker), who talked about Terry Wiggins. They did not mention that he served for 40 years playing on the parliamentary rugby team, and just a few weeks ago helped us to a glorious victory at Twickenham. As will concern anyone approaching...

• Transport: Fire and Rehire 16 May 2024

  What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to prevent the use of fire and rehire practices in the transport industry.

• Transport: Fire and Rehire 16 May 2024

  The TUC has found that since 2020 about 10% of all workers have had to reapply for their job. And let us remember that in 2020 British Airways tried to sack 36,000 staff through fire and rehire, which was stopped only through strike action—the Government took no action. In 2021, Go North West in Manchester threatened the same and, again, industrial action stopped it happening—the...

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