About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alex Barros-Curtis) represents you, and all of the people who live in Cardiff West, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Cardiff West

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Home Office
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Women and Equalities
• Department for Science
• Innovation and Technology
• Department for Transport
• Visas: Digital Technology
• Question
• Child Maintenance Service: Standards
• National Security
• Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

Currently held offices

• Member, Administration Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)
• Member, Modernisation Committee (since 9 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Crime and Policing Bill Committee (20 Mar 2025 to 13 May 2025)
• Member, Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee (18 Dec 2024 to 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Justice Committee (21 Oct 2024 to 17 Mar 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Kevin Brennan
• Rhodri Morgan
• Stefan Terlezki
• George Thomas

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee (16 out of 16)
• Crime and Policing Bill Committee (14 out of 15)

Recent appearances

• Electricity Market Review 10 Jul 2025

  I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I want to put on the record my thanks to the Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, my hon. Friend the Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), for the extensive conversations that he has had with me and other Welsh Labour MPs on our concerns about zonal pricing, and that we felt it would fail the “fair and affordable”...

• Written Answers — Home Office: Football Banning Orders 10 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many football bans have been given to offenders in the last (a) 12 and (b) 18 months.

• Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme 16 Jun 2025

  I should note for the record that I am proud to serve on the Modernisation Committee, and in my previous role before coming to this place, I gave evidence to Paul Kernaghan. I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman carefully, and I am struggling slightly to understand his argument. I point to what might be the latest version of the constitution of the Conservative party—I cannot be sure...

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