About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Tom Hayes) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bournemouth East, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Bournemouth East

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

Social Media

• @tomhayesmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Rapid Transit Systems and Trams: Construction
• Swimming Pools: Repairs and Maintenance
• Slavery: Victims
• Classroom Assistants: Pay
• Primary Care Networks: Homelessness

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Accounts Commission (since 17 Dec 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (12 Feb 2025 to 18 Mar 2025)
• Member, Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 11 Feb 2025)
• Member, Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] Committee (18 Dec 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Tobias Ellwood
• David Atkinson
• John Cordle

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Water (Special Measures) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (13 out of 13)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Air India Plane Crash 16 Jun 2025

  On behalf of my constituents, may I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your moving eulogy to Mr Shah who lived in Southbourne in my constituency for more than a decade? Many of my constituents remember Mr Shah and mourn his passing. They send their love to his family. Bournemouth and India have a deep bond; Britain and India have a deep bond. What is the Minister doing to ensure that...

• Farmed Animals: Cages and Crates — [David Mundell in the Chair] 16 Jun 2025

  It is a pleasure to contribute with you in the Chair, Mr Mundell. My hon. Friend the Member for North Ayrshire and Arran (Irene Campbell) introduced this important debate so well. As a nation of animal lovers, we rightly seek the highest welfare standards. We were the first country to create animal protection law, in 1822, and the first country to set up an animal welfare charity, in 1824. I...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Continuing Care 16 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to the reduce the financial pressures of long-term care for people ineligible for state support.

More of Tom Hayes’s recent appearances

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