About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Ashley Dalton) represents you, and all of the people who live in West Lancashire, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for West Lancashire

Entered the House of Commons on 9 February 2023 — Byelection

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Transport
• Semaglutide: Procurement
• Children: Maintenance
• Police: Complaints
• Lancashire Constabulary: Vetting
• Local Government Finance

Currently held offices

• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care (since 10 Feb 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (28 Nov 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (10 May 2023 to 18 May 2023)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (24 Apr 2023 to 11 Dec 2023)
• Member, Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee ( 1 Mar 2023 to 8 Mar 2023)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Rosie Cooper
• Colin Pickthall
• Kenneth Hind

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Finance No. 2 Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Rare Cancers Bill 14 Mar 2025

  First, let me say how sorry I was to hear that my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Dr Arthur) recently lost his father-in-law to glioblastoma. I congratulate him on introducing this legislation less than a year after his election. His wife and children will be immensely proud to see him in the Chamber today. He has the full support of many charities, such as Pancreatic Cancer...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Stem Cells: Donors 14 Mar 2025

  For the third quarter of 2024/25, registered donors in the United Kingdom provided by the Aligned Registry accounted for 23% (n=73) of the total unrelated, allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplants (n=311) for UK patients.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Screening 14 Mar 2025

  The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) Secretariat works closely with NHS England. This means NHS England is aware of conditions that the committee is considering for a screening programme. The costs and workforce requirements of potential screening programmes are considered when setting budgets so that when a positive recommendation is made by the UK NSC and accepted by Ministers, the...

More of Ashley Dalton’s recent appearances

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