About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Baggy Shanker) represents you, and all of the people who live in Derby South, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Derby South

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Education
• Ministry of Defence
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Special Educational Needs: Teachers and Classroom Assistants
• Army Reserve: Pensions
• Question

Currently held offices

• Member, Transport Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Margaret Beckett
• Walter Johnson
• Philip Noel-Baker

Recent appearances

• Business of the House 9 Jan 2025

  I welcome the Government’s commitment to crack down on waste incinerators. In my constituency, I have campaigned for 16 years against the Sinfin waste treatment centre, which failed initial testing in 2017 and has never been put into operational use. But the project continues, and over £150 million has been wasted. It is clear that this incinerator needs to be stopped. Where there are...

• Business of the House 9 Jan 2025

  I welcome the Government’s commitment to crack down on waste incinerators. In my constituency, I have campaigned for 16 years against the Sinfin waste treatment centre, which failed initial testing in 2017 and has never been put into operational use. But the project continues, and over £150 million has been wasted. It is clear that this incinerator needs to be stopped. Where there are...

• Transport: Rail Passenger Compensation 9 Jan 2025

  2025 is an exciting year for Derby, partly because of the progress on Great British Railways, which will be headquartered in Derby, and rightly so. Can we also make this the year that the British public fall in love again with rail travel, by giving GBR a strict timetable to simplify complicated ticketing and fares and to implement digital pay-as-you-go, as well as automatic compensation?

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