Simon Lightwood

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Labour/Co-operative MP for Wakefield and Rothwell

@simonlightwood.org.uk UK Parliament Profile

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Your MP (Simon Lightwood) represents you, and all of the people who live in Wakefield and Rothwell, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Labour/Co-operative MP for Wakefield and Rothwell

Entered the House of Commons on 24 June 2022 — Byelection

Party was Labour until 30 May 2024

Also represented Wakefield

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Topics of interest

  • Department for Transport
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Home Office
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Department for Business
  • Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Buses: Exhaust Emissions
  • Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
  • Universal Credit: Childcare
  • HIV Infection: Health Services
  • Asylum: Wakefield

Currently held offices

  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (since 9 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 19 Mar 2024)
  • Member, Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] Committee (11 Jan 2023 to 17 Jan 2023)
  • Shadow Minister (Transport) (27 Sep 2022 to 30 May 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

Recent appearances

  • Written Answers — Department for Transport: Active Travel: Children 23 Jun 2025

    The Department does not hold a dataset regarding active travel journeys made by children to schools in the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority area. The Department publishes data on travel to school by children nationally using data collected in the National Travel Survey. Active Travel England is supporting more children to walk, wheel and cycle to school by working with local...
  • Written Answers — Department for Transport: Active Travel: Children 23 Jun 2025

    The Government is providing £8.5 million over 25/26 for Cycling UK, Living Streets and Modeshift to deliver walking, wheeling and cycling initiatives in schools and communities. This funding is in addition to £222.5 million for local authorities for the development and delivery of local walking, wheeling and cycling schemes over 24/25 and 25/26, including for school-related journeys. The...
  • Written Answers — Department for Transport: High Speed 2 Line: Costs 23 Jun 2025

    Mark Wild is leading a comprehensive reset of the programme to deliver the remaining works at the lowest reasonable cost. As part of this work, he will advise the Department on a revised cost estimate for HS2. As Mark Wild set out in his letter, HS2 Ltd’s unassured estimate of the maximum cost of HS2 excluding Euston in June 2024 was £61.8bn in Q3 2019 prices, however he identified the...

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