About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Bayo Alaba) represents you, and all of the people who live in Southend East and Rochford, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Profile

Labour MP for Southend East and Rochford

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 of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Home Office
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
• Hospitals: Discharges
• Question
• Medicine: Students
• Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses

Currently held offices

• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Recent appearances

• Treasury: Night-time Economy 20 May 2025

  What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support growth in the night-time economy in Essex.

• Treasury: Night-time Economy 20 May 2025

  The Kursaal in Southend—the site of the first theme park in Europe—and the Freight House in Rochford were once iconic venues in my community and central to the night-time economy. Over the last 14 years, venues have been forced to close and heritage buildings have been left empty. What steps are the Minister and his Cabinet colleagues taking to protect the iconic heritage and cultural...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Hospitals: Discharges 8 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce delays in patient hospital discharges in Southend East and Rochford constituency.

More of Bayo Alaba’s recent appearances

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