About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Kate Dearden) represents you, and all of the people who live in Halifax, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Halifax

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Police Stations: Halifax
• General Practitioners: Halifax
• Anti-social Behaviour: West Yorkshire
• Pharmacy
• Children's Centres: Halifax

Currently held offices

• Assistant Whip (since 18 Jul 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Holly Lynch
• Linda Riordan
• Alice Mahon
• Roy Galley
• Shirley Summerskill
• Maurice Macmillan
• Dryden Brook
• Gilbert Gledhill
• Arthur Longbottom
• John Whitley
• James Parker
• John Whitley
• James Parker
• John Whitley
• Savile Crossley
• John Whitley
• Alfred Billson
• William Shaw
• Alfred Arnold
• William Shaw
• James Stansfeld
• Thomas Shaw
• James Stansfeld
• Thomas Shaw
• John Hutchinson
• James Stansfeld
• John Hutchinson
• James Stansfeld
• John Crossley
• James Stansfeld
• Edward Akroyd
• James Stansfeld
• Charles Wood
• James Stansfeld
• Charles Wood
• Francis Crossley
• Charles Wood
• Francis Crossley
• Edward Protheroe
• Charles Wood
• Henry Edwards
• Charles Wood
• Edward Protheroe
• Charles Wood
• James Stuart-Wortley
• Charles Wood
• Rawdon Briggs

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: General Practitioners: Halifax 1 Aug 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of open GP practices in Halifax constituency (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Pharmacy 30 Jul 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support local pharmacies.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Children's Centres: Halifax 30 Jul 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed in Halifax constituency since May 2010; and the (a) name and (b) postcode of each centre.

More of Kate Dearden’s recent appearances

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