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

Previous MPs in this constituency

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

Recent appearances

• Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories 10 Jun 2025

  I certainly welcome the sanctions against the two Israeli Ministers, but collective responsibility dictates that the whole Cabinet is complicit, and the sanctions should perhaps have gone further. Human rights abuses are happening right in front of us. Settler violence has reached a record high. Illegal settlements are being constructed. Over 55,000 innocent men, women and children have died....

• Backbench Business: Police Presence on High Streets — [Gill Furniss in the Chair] 5 Jun 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Furniss. I thank My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton) for securing this important debate. The saying goes, “Money isn’t everything,” but it is when you have not got it, and in London, the Metropolitan police certainly has not got it. Having been forced to make £1.2 billion-worth of cuts over the last...

• Backbench Business: Police Presence on High Streets — [Gill Furniss in the Chair] 5 Jun 2025

  Absolutely. In Redbridge, we had to turn that around. The right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) will certainly agree with me, because we put a police hub in his constituency, which saved 4.5 full-time police officers’ time over the course of a year. We also introduced specific engagements, such as police walk and talks, which offer devoted time for...

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