About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Leigh Ingham) represents you, and all of the people who live in Stafford, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Stafford

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Roads: Stafford
• Autism: Children
• Hospices: Employers' Contributions
• Flood Control: Rural Areas
• Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes

Currently held offices

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Member, Speaker's Conference (2024) Committee (since 18 Dec 2024)
• Member, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (since 20 Nov 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Theo Clarke
• Jeremy Lefroy
• David Kidney
• Bill Cash
• Hugh Fraser
• Stephen Swingler
• Peter Thorneycroft
• William Ormsby-Gore
• Richard Essex
• Theodore Shaw
• Thomas Salt
• Charles McLaren
• Alexander Macdonald
• Thomas Salt
• Reginald Talbot
• Henry Pochin
• Walter Meller
• Henry Pochin
• Walter Meller
• Michael Bass
• Thomas Sidney
• Thomas Salt
• John Wise
• Ingestre
• John Wise
• Arthur Otway
• David Urquhart
• Thomas Sidney
• Edward Buller
• Swynfen Carnegie
• William Chetwynd
• Robert Farrand
• Thomas Beaumont
• William Chetwynd
• Francis Goodricke
• Thomas Beaumont
• William Chetwynd
• John Campbell
• Thomas Gisborne
• Rees Gronow
• Thomas Gisborne
• John Campbell
• Thomas Gisborne
• John Campbell
• Thomas Beaumont
• Ralph Benson
• Thomas Beaumont
• Richard Ironmonger
• Ralph Benson
• George Chetwynd
• Benjamin Benyon
• George Chetwynd
• Samuel Homfray
• Benjamin Benyon
• Samuel Homfray
• Benjamin Benyon
• Thomas Wilson
• Ralph Benson
• Thomas Wilson
• Ralph Benson
• Edward Monckton
• Richard Mansel-Philipps
• Edward Monckton
• Richard Mansel-Philipps
• Richard Sheridan
• Edward Monckton
• Richard Sheridan
• Edward Monckton

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 20 Mar 2025

  May I too extend my condolences to the shadow Leader of the House? His father sounds like a wonderful man. I recently visited Chase Recovery in my constituency. It is a community-based, peer-led rehabilitation programme, designed for those who experience substance misuse and are seeking a new abstinent life filled with meaning and purpose. I met Paul and Cara while there, and their passion...

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Council Tax: Floods 20 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of trends in the level of people being required to pay full council tax after vacating properties due to flooding.

• Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Bark.com 20 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Bark.com on their effectiveness in vetting tradespeople employing their services.

More of Leigh Ingham’s recent appearances

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