About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Kirsteen Sullivan) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bathgate and Linlithgow, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Women and Equalities
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Treasury
• Department for Science
• Innovation and Technology
• Ministry of Defence
• Local Area Energy Plans
• Russian Military Studies Centre
• Employment Schemes: Young People
• Question
• Infrastructure

Currently held offices

• Member, Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee (since 9 Jun 2025)
• Member, Administration Committee (since 28 Apr 2025)
• Member, Scottish Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme 9 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Member for securing this important debate. Does she agree that the injustices faced by people who were forced out of the armed forces because of their sexuality have had profound and long-lasting impacts on their mental health, financial wellbeing and career prospects? Those impacts endure today.

• Welfare Reform 30 Jun 2025

  I thank the Secretary of State for her statement, and for the recent move to protect existing claimants. I appreciate that the adult disability payment is devolved to the Scottish Government. However, my constituents are really concerned about the potential for different qualifying criteria across the nations, which may result in limited access to passported benefits from November 2026. What...

• UK Infrastructure: 10-year Strategy 19 Jun 2025

  I thank my right hon. Friend for his very welcome statement. In my constituency of Bathgate and Linlithgow, we have the Avon gorge, which is unsuitable for the volume of heavy goods vehicles that traverse it every day; a motorway junction at Burghmuir only for traffic going east, not west; and, of course, the long-awaited Winchburgh train station that has never been delivered, despite years...

More of Kirsteen Sullivan’s recent appearances

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