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.

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Profile

Labour MP for Dudley

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department for Education
• Department for Transport
• Motor Vehicles: Theft
• Empty Property: Dudley
• Development Aid: Poverty
• Higher Education: Disadvantaged
• Obesity: Children

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

Recent appearances

• NHS: Independent Investigation 12 Sep 2024

  Despite the damning analysis of the state in which the Conservatives left the NHS, Lord Darzi says that its vital signs remain strong. Does the Secretary of State agree with the case for the health service being taxpayer funded, free at the point of use, and based on need and not the ability to pay?

• Business of the House 12 Sep 2024

  In the town of Dudley, the Conservative-led council has proposed the introduction of parking charges. That will affect students from Dudley College of Technology, learning development, local businesses, traders, users of the leisure centre and my residents, who will struggle with the costs. Will the Leader of the House allow a debate in Government time on how we support town centres and...

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Development Aid: Poverty 6 Sep 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of spending on international aid on the effectiveness of his Department's steps to tackle (a) hunger and (b) poverty.

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