About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Sojan Joseph) represents you, and all of the people who live in Ashford, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Ashford

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

Social Media

• @sojanjosephmp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Transport
• Home Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Gender Based Violence: Kent
• Apprentices: Publicity
• Adoption
• Armed Forces: Cadets
• Coronavirus: Vaccination

Currently held offices

• Member, Mental Health Bill [HL] Committee (since 9 Jun 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 25 Mar 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Damian Green
• Keith Speed
• William Deedes
• Edward Smith
• William Spens
• Michael Knatchbull
• Roderick Kedward
• Samuel Steel
• Laurence Hardy
• William Pomfret

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee (29 out of 29)
• Mental Health Bill Committee (4 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 6 - Grounds for community treatment orders 12 Jun 2025

  Does the hon. Gentleman agree that CTOs help to keep people out of hospital so that rather than having long-term admissions, they can live in the community and in their own house, and that clinicians can recall patients to hospital if they are not complying with the agreed treatment?

• Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 6 - Grounds for community treatment orders 12 Jun 2025

  Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is more an issue of practice than of the law itself?

• Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 5 - Grounds for detention 12 Jun 2025

  I rise to support the Government amendments, which will simply remove the words “by a constable or other organised person”. On Second Reading, I highlighted my concern about the amendments made to the Bill in the other place that sought to extend police powers of detention under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act to other organised persons, including medical practitioners,...

More of Sojan Joseph’s recent appearances

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