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
• Schools: Mid Bedfordshire
• Brain: Tumours
• Sustainable Farming Incentive: Mid Bedfordshire
• Parking

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

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Gynaecology: Waiting Lists 12 Sep 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for non-cancerous gynaecological services.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Endometriosis: Diagnosis 12 Sep 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to shorten the diagnosis time for endometriosis.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Housing: Bricks 12 Sep 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to mandate that swift bricks are required to be added to all new houses.

More of Alistair Strathern’s recent appearances

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