About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alison Hume) represents you, and all of the people who live in Scarborough and Whitby, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Scarborough and Whitby

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Dental Services: Scarborough And Whitby
• Energy: Meters
• Fracking: North Yorkshire
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services
• Coroners

Currently held offices

• Member, Backbench Business Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

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

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Robert Goodwill
• Lawrie Quinn
• Michael Shaw
• Alexander Spearman
• Herbert Latham
• Sidney Herbert
• Gervase Beckett

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Employment Rights Bill Committee (21 out of 21)

Recent appearances

• Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Clause 1 - Standard allowance for tax years 2026-27 to 2029-30 9 Jul 2025

  I rise to speak in support of new clause 11 and amendment 38. I am incredibly relieved that the Government have listened—most importantly, they have listened to the people who will be affected by changes to PIP—and taken clause 5 out of the Bill. The terms of reference for the Timms review have already been set without involving disabled people, but there is a chance with new clause 11 to...

• Home Department: Domestic Abuse: Joint Tenancies 7 Jul 2025

  What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on protecting domestic abuse victims from the perpetrators of that abuse with whom they share a joint tenancy.

• Home Department: Domestic Abuse: Joint Tenancies 7 Jul 2025

  My constituent Molly is trapped in the house where she was violently attacked in front of her children. She is confined to living upstairs, because going into the room downstairs triggers her post-traumatic stress disorder. Despite the perpetrator of this abuse rightfully being in prison and having a restraining order of five years, Molly’s landlord has told her that they cannot take him...

More of Alison Hume’s recent appearances

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