About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Sam Rushworth) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bishop Auckland, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Bishop Auckland

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

Social Media

• @samrushworthmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Restoring Your Railway Fund: Weardale Line

Currently held offices

• Member, International Development Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] ( 6 Nov 2024 to 13 Nov 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Dehenna Davison
• Helen Goodman
• Derek Foster
• James Boyden
• Hugh Dalton
• Aaron Curry
• Florence Dalton
• Benjamin Spoor
• Henry Havelock-Allan
• James Paulton

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Education: School Costs and Employer’s National Insurance Contributions 28 Apr 2025

  I am deeply concerned about the funding of Howden-le-Wear primary school in my constituency. After years of real-terms cuts, it is now making four teaching assistants redundant. I will write to the Minister on that to seek her support, but the elephant in the room is that the pay of the chief executive of the multi-academy trust of which it is a member has increased £30,000 over the last two...

• Education: School Costs and Employer’s National Insurance Contributions 28 Apr 2025

  I am deeply concerned about the funding of Howden-le-Wear primary school in my constituency. After years of real-terms cuts, it is now making four teaching assistants redundant. I will write to the Minister on that to seek her support, but the elephant in the room is that the pay of the chief executive of the multi-academy trust of which it is a member has increased £30,000 over the last two...

• Church Commissioners: Lithium Mineral Rights: Weardale 3 Apr 2025

  Whether the Church of England is taking steps to help ensure that its ownership of mineral rights to lithium in Weardale contributes to economic growth in that area.

More of Sam Rushworth’s recent appearances

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