About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Calvin Bailey) represents you, and all of the people who live in Leyton and Wanstead, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Defence
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Whipps Cross Hospital: Construction
• Defence: Recruitment
• Reserve Forces: Recruitment
• Armed Forces: STEM Subjects
• Prostate Cancer: Screening

Currently held offices

• Member, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art (since 6 Feb 2025)
• Member, Defence Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Cryer
• Harry Cohen

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Veterans: Visas 14 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on waiving visa fees for (a) non UK nationality veterans who have served for four or more years and (b) dependents of those veterans; and whether he plans to introduce such waivers prior to the planned extension of the Armed Forces Covenant Duty to further authorities.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Prostate Cancer: Leyton and Wanstead 11 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number and proportion of prostate cancer cases that had presented with stage 4 metastatic disease at first diagnosis in Leyton and Wanstead constituency in the most recent year that data are available.

• Written Answers — Department for Culture, Media and Sport: VE Day: Anniversaries 11 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department has offered local authorities to help facilitate local VE Day 2025 celebrations.

More of Calvin Bailey’s recent appearances

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