About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Anna Dixon) represents you, and all of the people who live in Shipley, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Shipley

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

Social Media

• @annadixonmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Airedale Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance
• Events Industry: First Aid
• Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
• Water Restoration Fund
• NHS: Workplace Pensions

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Accounts Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Philip Davies
• Chris Leslie
• Marcus Fox
• Geoffrey Hirst
• Arthur Jones
• James Lockwood
• William Mackinder
• Henry Rae
• Oswald Partington
• Percy Illingworth
• James Flannery
• William Byles
• Joseph Craven

Recent appearances

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 10 - No obligation to provide assistance etc 16 May 2025

  On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I appreciate that you and the team have had a very difficult day, but as someone who tabled an amendment but has not had the opportunity to speak to it, I would like clarification that if a closure motion is moved, my amendment, as well as those tabled by other Members who have been unable to speak to them, will not receive further debate.

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 10 - No obligation to provide assistance etc 16 May 2025

  I support the hon. Lady’s amendment. As the Royal College of Psychiatrists pointed out, pain from unresolved physical symptoms and the fear of physical pain or death can make a person want to die, and depression, which is also associated with a wish to die, is often missed. Does she agree that it is vital that people are supported to be free from pain by having access to good palliative and...

• Carer’s Leave 14 May 2025

  I thank the Minister for his commitment to review carer’s leave and to consider the opportunity for looking at paid carer’s leave. Does he agree that would particularly benefit low-income workers and women? They make up the bulk of unpaid carers, and they find it particularly difficult to take unpaid carer’s leave because they simply cannot afford it.

More of Anna Dixon’s recent appearances

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