About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Cat Eccles) represents you, and all of the people who live in Stourbridge, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Stourbridge

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

Social Media

• @cateccles.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Trade Agreements: USA
• Special Educational Needs: Per Capita Costs
• Pathways to Work
• West Bank: Violence
• Recreation Spaces

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Committee (13 May 2025 to 14 May 2025)
• Member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] ( 6 Nov 2024 to 13 Nov 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Suzanne Webb
• Margot James
• Lynda Waltho
• Debra Shipley
• Arthur Moyle
• Robert Morgan
• Wilfred Wellock
• Douglas Pielou
• John Wilson

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 2 - Commercial sexual exploitation by a third party 18 Jun 2025

  The hon. Gentleman is making a really impassioned speech. In some ways, I agree with elements of what he is saying; I was involved in extensive discussion with the humanists recently about exactly this issue. A gentleman was prosecuted for burning a Koran, and he just wanted to express his displeasure to the Turkish Government. Does the hon. Gentleman not think it would be preferable to...

• Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 2 - Commercial sexual exploitation by a third party 18 Jun 2025

  The hon. Gentleman is making a really impassioned speech. In some ways, I agree with elements of what he is saying; I was involved in extensive discussion with the humanists recently about exactly this issue. A gentleman was prosecuted for burning a Koran, and he just wanted to express his displeasure to the Turkish Government. Does the hon. Gentleman not think it would be preferable to...

• Crime and Policing Bill: New Clause 2 - Commercial sexual exploitation by a third party 18 Jun 2025

  The hon. Gentleman is making a really impassioned speech. In some ways, I agree with elements of what he is saying; I was involved in extensive discussion with the humanists recently about exactly this issue. A gentleman was prosecuted for burning a Koran, and he just wanted to express his displeasure to the Turkish Government. Does the hon. Gentleman not think it would be preferable to...

More of Cat Eccles’s recent appearances

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