About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Samantha Dixon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Chester North and Neston, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Chester North and Neston

Entered the House of Commons on 1 December 2022 — Byelection

Also represented City of Chester

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Levelling Up
• Housing and Communities
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Water: Standards
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs: ICT
• Railways: Chester
• Floods: Food
• Monuments: Repairs and Maintenance

Currently held offices

• Member, Committee of Selection (since 30 Jul 2024)
• The Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household (since 10 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill (Formerly known as Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill) Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Treasury Committee (11 Mar 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations (11 Mar 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 20 Feb 2024)
• Member, Procedure Committee ( 5 Dec 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (10 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill Committee Committee (0 out of 1)
• Finance No. 2 Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Message to Attend the Lords Commissioners: Election of Speaker 9 Jul 2024

  I have to signify to the House the pleasure of His Majesty that the House should present their Speaker this day at 3.45 pm in the House of Peers for His Majesty’s Royal Approbation. Sitting suspended. On resuming—

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Thirlwall Inquiry: Finance 22 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has allocated to the Thirlwall Inquiry.

• Defence: Defence Funding: Efficient Spending 20 May 2024

  Because of Government plans to mothball HMS Albion, key artefacts from the ship, including the sword of peace, were given to Chester town hall for safekeeping, and then, on 14 May, the Secretary of State announced that HMS Albion will not be mothballed. When would he like the artefacts back? Exactly when is HMS Albion going to be put to sea again?

More of Samantha Dixon’s recent appearances

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