About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Chris Ward) represents you, and all of the people who live in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven

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

Social Media

• @chriswardmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Transport
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Education
• Natural Gas: Storage
• Malnutrition: Older People
• Taxis: Licensing
• Long Covid: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Schools: Transport

Recent appearances

• Education: Freedom of Speech: Universities 28 Apr 2025

  What steps she is taking to protect freedom of speech at universities.

• Education: Freedom of Speech: Universities 28 Apr 2025

  The Minister will know that the University of Sussex, one of my local universities, has recently been fined over £500,000—a record amount—following a three-and-half-year investigation by the Office for Students into freedom of speech. I know that the OfS is independent, but does the Minister share my concern that it reached this conclusion without ever speaking to the university or its...

• Hospitals 23 Apr 2025

  The Royal Sussex in my constituency is in desperate need of a new cancer centre, and I am delighted that the centre is being added to wave one. I would be even happier if the Minister also added a new accident and emergency department, but we will come back to that another day. Is the reality not that we all want to build these new hospitals, but we all have to be honest with the public about...

More of Chris Ward’s recent appearances

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