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.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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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 Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Semaglutide: Procurement
• Children: Maintenance
• Local Government Finance
• Police: Complaints
• Lancashire Constabulary: Vetting

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

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Disadvantaged 19 Mar 2025

  Making improvements across different cancer types is critical to reducing disparities in cancer survival. We recognize that there are challenges for several different populations, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas of the country. We are directly targeting activity at areas that we know will make a difference. This includes awareness campaigns such as the NHS Help Us,...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: NHS: Negligence 19 Mar 2025

  NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England. NHS Resolution has provided the requested information broken down by financial year since 2019/20 as well as specialty and scheme. Low figures have been supressed to protect claimant identity. NHSR may make more than one payment on a claim and therefore the volume of payments may...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Pancreatic Cancer: Medical Treatments 19 Mar 2025

  NHS England is delivering a range of interventions to improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms. NHS England runs ‘Help Us Help You’ campaigns to increase knowledge of symptoms of a wide range of cancers, including pancreatic cancer, and encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. NHS England is also working with Pancreatic Cancer UK to...

More of Ashley Dalton’s recent appearances

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