About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Jas Athwal) represents you, and all of the people who live in Ilford South, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Ilford South

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

Social Media

• @jasathwal.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Education
• Mental Health Services: Terminal Illnesses
• Obesity: Ilford South
• Obesity: Children
• HIV Infection: Greater London
• Mobile Phones: Theft

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Sam Tarry
• Mike Gapes
• Neil Thorne
• Albert Cooper
• Arnold Shaw
• Albert Cooper
• James Ranger

Recent appearances

• Kashmir: Increasing Tension 29 Apr 2025

  I thank the Minister for his statement. I would also like to associate myself with the condemnation of this horrific and cowardly attack on innocent people. Ilford South is home to a large diaspora of Indian and Pakistani descent. Following the horrific murder of the 26 tourists, whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time when the terrorists orchestrated their heinous...

• Business of the House 24 Apr 2025

  Getting a driving licence in Ilford South has become almost impossible. Learners are having to wait for more than 18 months to book their tests, because rogue individuals and unscrupulous driving schools are booking up the spaces and charging residents up to 10 times the cost of a single test. Learners are being exploited and honest instructors punished. Would the Leader of the House...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Infant Foods: Sugar 8 Apr 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Public Health England's report entitled Commercial infant and baby food and drink: evidence review, published in June 2019, what steps he is taking to help tackle commercial baby foods with high levels of added sugar.

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