About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Andrew Western) represents you, and all of the people who live in Stretford and Urmston, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston

Entered the House of Commons on 16 December 2022 — Byelection

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Levelling Up
• Housing and Communities
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Education
• Healthy Start Scheme
• NHS: Pay
• Israel: Palestinians
• Dietetics: Prescriptions
• Confucius Institutes

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (since 12 Feb 2025)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (since 9 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Procedure Committee (23 Apr 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] Committee (13 Mar 2024 to 19 Mar 2024)
• Member, Media Bill Committee (29 Nov 2023 to 12 Dec 2023)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) ( 5 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Energy Bill [HL] Committee (22 May 2023 to 29 Jun 2023)
• Member, Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee ( 1 Mar 2023 to 8 Mar 2023)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee (21 Feb 2023 to 22 Jan 2024)
• Member, International Trade Committee ( 6 Feb 2023 to 26 Apr 2023)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Kate Green
• Beverley Hughes

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Automated Vehicles Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Media Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Energy Bill Committee (15 out of 18)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: G4S: Fines 20 Mar 2025

  DWP have applied the full contract performance management regime across the last 12 months, including service credits (pre-determined costs associated with a supplier failing to deliver a service or missing a target). Over the last 12 months, strike activity on the contract has increased the amount of Service Credits applied. DWP have worked with G4S collaboratively to mitigate the impact on...

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Children: Maintenance 20 Mar 2025

  The Child Maintenance Service operates on the principle that both parents have financial responsibility for their child, including their food and clothing, as well as contributing towards the associated costs of running the home that the child lives in. Reductions can be made for the extra cost of care where it is shared by the paying parent. The paying parent must have overnight care of...

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Children: Maintenance 20 Mar 2025

  The Government is dedicated to ensuring parents meet their obligations to children, taking robust enforcement action against those who do not. Cases in Collect & Pay represent the most difficult cases, as many of these have been unwilling to pay voluntarily or have not been compliant in a Direct Pay arrangement. Cases where the paying parent has missed payments or demonstrated behaviour that...

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