About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alistair Strathern) represents you, and all of the people who live in Hitchin, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Hitchin

Entered the House of Commons on 20 October 2023 — Byelection

Also represented Mid Bedfordshire

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Department for Education
• Home Office
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• General Practitioners: Mid Bedfordshire
• Sustainable Farming Incentive: Mid Bedfordshire
• Schools: Mid Bedfordshire
• Brain: Tumours
• Parking

Currently held offices

• Member, Crown Estate Bill [HL] Committee (since 29 Jan 2025)
• Member, Finance Bill Committee (since 22 Jan 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Finance (No.2) Bill Committee (15 May 2024 to 21 May 2024)
• Member, Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill ( 8 May 2024 to 15 May 2024)
• Member, Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee ( 7 Feb 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (10 Jan 2024 to 30 Jan 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Ian Stewart
• Shirley Williams
• Martin Maddan
• Nigel Fisher
• Philip Jones
• Seymour Berry
• Arnold Wilson
• Edward Knebworth
• Guy Kindersley
• Robert Cecil
• Alfred Hillier
• Julius Bertram
• George Hudson
• Robert Dimsdale

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Crown Estate Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill Committee (7 out of 10)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Commons: Main Chamber 4 Mar 2025

  [details to be provided] – Alistair Strathern. Ten Minute Rule Motion

• Health and Social Care: Special Educational Needs Assessments 11 Feb 2025

  Local authority resources are a big driver of some challenges in the SEND system, but it is clear to anyone working in it that a systemic under-prioritisation of children’s health, all too often by local NHS trusts, is a big contributing factor. Young people right across my constituency waiting for assessment and lacking support are paying the price. As part of our 10-year plan to reform...

• Biomass Generation 10 Feb 2025

  The last Government’s deal with Drax was not just shocking value for taxpayers, leaving us all on the hook for subsidising sky-high profits during a cost of living crisis, but bad news for the environment, with real concerns about the sustainability of Drax’s supply chain. As the Government rightly take a measured approach to ensuring that we protect not just bill payers but workers as we...

More of Alistair Strathern’s recent appearances

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