About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Luke Charters) represents you, and all of the people who live in York Outer, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for York Outer

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

Social Media

• @lukecharters.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Treasury
• Home Office
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Special Educational Needs
• Special Educational Needs: Appeals
• Government Departments: Procurement
• Fraud
• Banking Hubs

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Accounts Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Crown Estate Bill [HL] Committee (29 Jan 2025 to 6 Feb 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Julian Sturdy

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Crown Estate Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Theft of Tools of Trade 11 Jun 2025

  My hon. Friend is a champion for the grafters of this country, who are fed up with having the tools of their trade nicked. Does she agree that the action and sentencing changes that she is asking for must apply to the tools of any trade, be they the GPS on tractors, which we have heard about, or the tools that were nicked from my barber’s? Does she agree that we must look at sentencing for...

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Disabled Students' Allowances 27 May 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to ensure that Disabled Students’ Allowance funding for completed Non-Medical Help support is paid in the event of a provider’s insolvency.

• Regulation of Bailiffs (Assessment and Report) 21 May 2025

  I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish an assessment of the effectiveness of current regulation of the debt collection and civil enforcement sectors and to report to Parliament on the potential merits of statutory regulation of those sectors; and for connected purposes. Today, I introduce the Regulation of Bailiffs (Assessment and...

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