About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Sonia Kumar) represents you, and all of the people who live in Dudley, 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 Dudley

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Empty Property: Dudley
• Motor Vehicles: Theft
• Gaza: Children
• Nurseries
• Development Aid: Poverty

Currently held offices

• Member, Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls (since 5 Mar 2025)
• Member, Business and Trade Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] Committee (26 Feb 2025 to 11 Mar 2025)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Gilbert
• Donald Williams
• George Wigg
• Cyril Lloyd
• Dudley Joel
• Oliver Baldwin
• Cyril Lloyd
• James Wilson
• Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
• Arthur Hooper
• Brooke Robinson
• Henry Sheridan
• Stafford Northcote
• John Benbow
• Thomas Hawkes
• John Campbell

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Data (Use and Access) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Care Homes: Fees and Charges 10 Apr 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered increasing the threshold from which people must pay for their own care.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Nurseries 10 Apr 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) keeping records of all incidents in nurseries and (b) making these statistics publicly available.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: STEM Subjects: Finance 28 Mar 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated for STEM professional development from April 2025; and how teachers will access this funding.

More of Sonia Kumar’s recent appearances

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