About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alex Mayer) represents you, and all of the people who live in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Department for Business and Trade
• Animal Experiments
• Bus Services: Rural Areas
• Bus Services: Concessions
• Bus Services
• Buses: Carbon Emissions

Currently held offices

• Member, Transport Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Active Travel 16 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on promoting the (a) mental, (b) physical and (c) wellbeing aspects of (i) walking and (ii) cycling.

• Backbench Business: Solar Farms 15 May 2025

  Thank you for calling me so early on, Madam Deputy Speaker, at the sunrise of the debate. I believe there is not only a climate and biodiversity emergency, but real insecurity in our energy market. That is why I absolutely back the Government’s plan to triple our solar capacity and reach the clean power target by 2030. We need to look at the whole gamut of renewable energy out there,...

• Backbench Business: Solar Farms 15 May 2025

  I think we need a mix, but we cannot rule out using solar panels on large chunks of land. When the Minister came along to visit our solar farm in Eggington, he not only met the sheep, but saw that some of the land around the panels has been transformed into wildflower meadows. In my constituency, AW Group —the people with the turbine—is branching out into solar. In the next couple of...

More of Alex Mayer’s recent appearances

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