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

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)

• 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

• Home-to-School Transport: Children with SEND 3 Dec 2024

  I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing this debate and for her tireless work campaigning of this issue. It is really encouraging to be joined by so many colleagues from across the House to speak about issues relating to SEND. I rise to highlight some of the shocking stories that families locally have shared with me about the challenges and pressures that...

• Home-to-School Transport: Children with SEND 3 Dec 2024

  I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jen Craft) for securing this debate and for her tireless work campaigning of this issue. It is really encouraging to be joined by so many colleagues from across the House to speak about issues relating to SEND. I rise to highlight some of the shocking stories that families locally have shared with me about the challenges and pressures that...

• Critical Minerals: Domestic Production — [Carolyn Harris in the Chair] 3 Dec 2024

  My hon. Friend is making a compelling case, not just for the national security implications of critical minerals, but for the welcome huge economic benefits. Given that, does he welcome the Government’s commitment to bring forward a new strategy for critical minerals security? Does he agree that that would bring benefits, not just for the regions blessed with the minerals in natural supply,...

More of Alistair Strathern’s recent appearances

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