About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Gen Kitchen) represents you, and all of the people who live in Wellingborough and Rushden, 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 Wellingborough and Rushden

Entered the House of Commons on 16 February 2024 — Byelection

Also represented Wellingborough

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Levelling Up
• Housing and Communities
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Treasury
• Dental Services: Wellingborough
• General Practitioners: Wellingborough
• Housing: Overcrowding
• Private Rented Housing: Wellingborough
• Flood Control: Northamptonshire

Currently held offices

• Member, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (since 16 Oct 2024)
• Assistant Whip (since 10 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, Education Committee (30 Apr 2024 to 30 May 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Childcare: Wellingborough 24 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the availability of childcare in Wellingborough constituency.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Students: Debts 24 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an estimate of the median level of student debt held by people in Wellingborough constituency.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Apprentices: Degrees 24 May 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many degree apprenticeships were (a) advertised and (b) completed in (i) Wellingborough constituency, (ii) Northamptonshire and (iii) London in each of the last five years.

More of Gen Kitchen’s recent appearances

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