About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alan Strickland) represents you, and all of the people who live in Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor, 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 Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor

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

Social Media

• @alanstricklandmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Church Commissioners
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Sports: Facilities
• Cemeteries: County Durham
• Question

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Mar 2025 to 20 Mar 2025)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Defence Industries: North-East 13 May 2025

  I commend my hon. Friend for this excellent debate and the Minister for the leadership that she is showing—I was grateful for her recent visit to NETPark in Sedgefield in my constituency. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is another significant benefit of more work going to SMEs? Warfare is changing at such a rapid pace that we need to take hold of innovation and the innovative products...

• Easter Adjournment 8 Apr 2025

  Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Now that I know I get to go first, I might have birthdays more often. It is a real pleasure to speak in this Easter Adjournment debate. In doing so, I pay tribute to the memory of our late colleague Sir David Amess. I was not a Member of the House at the time, but I hear that the number of community organisations that Sir David managed to cram into his...

• Terms and Conditions of Employment 25 Mar 2025

  I strongly welcome the proposed increases to minimum wage rates, which will help people of all ages across all communities in our country. There is a particularly welcome boost for apprentices, who are the future of our economy. Those increases will make a real difference to people in my constituency and across our great nation, for three reasons. First, as colleagues have said, we must make...

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