About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Steve Witherden) represents you, and all of the people who live in Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

MPs split their time between Parliament and their constituency. In Parliament, they debate and vote on new laws, review existing laws, and question the Government. In the constituency, their focus is on supporting local people and championing local issues. They have a small staff team who help with casework, maintain their diaries, and monitor their inbox.

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Profile

Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Home Office
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Firearms: Licensing
• Carbon Emissions
• Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
• Agriculture: Planning
• Broadband and Mobile Phones: Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr

Currently held offices

• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Recent appearances

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: New Clause 17 - Establishment of new schools: data protection 18 Mar 2025

  It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate and express my support for the Bill. For far too long, school children have borne the brunt of academisation. Fortunately, the Labour Government in Wales rejected this model, but, having been a teacher on the border for most of my working life and a national executive member of the NASUWT, I have seen at first hand the negative impact of...

• Work and Pensions: Topical Questions 17 Mar 2025

  Given that nearly half of families in poverty have a disabled member and that without PIP an additional 700,000 disabled households could be pushed into poverty, I am concerned that the rumoured cuts will not help people into work but instead drive them further into destitution. What assurances can the Minister give me that the voices of disabled people have been heard and reflected on in...

• Written Answers — Home Office: Hate Crime: Transgender People 14 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to help tackle hate crimes against trans people in England and Wales.

More of Steve Witherden’s recent appearances

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