About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Sorcha Eastwood) represents you, and all of the people who live in Lagan Valley, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Alliance MP for Lagan Valley, Former Alliance MLA for Lagan Valley

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Entered the Assembly on 5 May 2022 — Election

Left the Assembly on 5 July 2024 — Resigned

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @sorchaeastwood.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile
• Northern Ireland Assembly Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Northern Ireland Office
• Treasury
• Home Office
• Cabinet Office
• Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
• UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
• Blood Cancer
• Out of Area Treatment: Northern Ireland
• UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Northern Ireland

Currently held offices

• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Jeffrey M. Donaldson
• James Molyneaux

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Allergies 18 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many allergy 'near miss' incidents took place in schools in England in each year since 2016.

• Written Answers — Treasury: Free School Meals: Northern Ireland 13 Jun 2025

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 4 June 2025, HCWS682, on School Food, what estimate she has made of the potential Barnett consequentials for Northern Ireland following the expansion of free school meals to all children in households in receipt of Universal Credit.

• Prime Minister: Engagements 11 Jun 2025

  With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I will briefly pay tribute to the Police Service of Northern Ireland for tackling the public disorder in Northern Ireland over the last two nights, with over 30 police officers injured. I am sure the whole House will want to join me in that, and in condemning the racist violence. Whether it is the cardiac scandal at the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast, the...

More of Sorcha Eastwood’s recent appearances

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