About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Laurence Turner) represents you, and all of the people who live in Birmingham Northfield, 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 Birmingham Northfield

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Transport
• Department for Education
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Business and Trade
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Birmingham City Council: Insolvency
• Criminal Injuries Compensation
• Roads: Birmingham
• Roads: Suicide
• Teachers: Pay

Currently held offices

• Member, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] Committee (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Member, Transport Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Employment Rights Bill Committee (13 Nov 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Employment Rights Bill Committee (21 out of 21)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Colombia: Trade Agreements 20 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Colombia on the potential renewal of the UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty.

• Prime Minister: Engagements 19 Mar 2025

  My constituents in Birmingham Northfield are deeply concerned about the scourge of knife crime, and I pay tribute to the professionalism of West Midlands police for its response to these horrendous attacks. However, there are still 1,200 fewer police officers and police community support officers in the force than in 2010, and a new bid for 150 more officers has been submitted to the Home...

• Written Answers — Department for Transport: Transport Focus 19 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Transport Focus last published minutes of meetings of its Board.

More of Laurence Turner’s recent appearances

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