About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Lola McEvoy) represents you, and all of the people who live in Darlington, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Darlington

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Currently held offices

• Member, Treasury Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)
• Member, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (since 16 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Peter Gibson
• Jenny Chapman
• Alan Milburn
• Michael Fallon
• Ossie O'Brien
• Edward Fletcher
• Anthony Bourne-Arton
• Fergus Graham
• David Hardman
• Charles Peat
• Arthur Shepherd
• William Pease
• Herbert Pease
• Ignatius Lincoln
• Herbert Pease
• Arthur Pease
• Theodore Fry
• Edmund Backhouse

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (7 out of 8)

Recent appearances

• Children’s Social Media Accounts — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] 13 Jan 2025

  I thank my hon. Friend for his impressive and articulate outlining of the debate so far. Will he join my calls for Ofcom to strengthen the upcoming children’s code and, as the code is not yet published, to use this opportunity to include functionality, a stronger dynamic risk assessment—a live document that will be constantly updated—and the measures that my hon. Friend has laid out for...

• Children’s Social Media Accounts — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] 13 Jan 2025

  I was reading up on that issue in preparation for this debate and I came across some amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would require those huge providers and tech companies to have a complaints procedure, where parents could appeal to their better nature for the release of the data, but if they were refused it, there would be a proper complaints procedure. Does the hon. Lady...

• Children’s Social Media Accounts — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] 13 Jan 2025

  It is every parent’s worst nightmare to lose a child—imagine losing them and not knowing why they are gone. Ellen Roome is Jools’ mum. She deserves answers but, unbelievably, she is not allowed access to the data that might provide them, which is so wrong. This petition is for Jools’ law, which would allow parents to have access to their child’s online data in specific...

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