About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Lauren Edwards) represents you, and all of the people who live in Rochester and Strood, 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 Rochester and Strood

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

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Treasury
• Department for Transport
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Education
• Financial Services: Euro
• Special Educational Needs: Training
• Bus Services: Franchises
• Environment Protection: Industry

Currently held offices

• Member, Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Kelly Tolhurst
• Mark Reckless

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: General Practitioners: Rural Areas 12 Dec 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of General Practitioners in rural communities.

• Written Answers — Department for Education: Special Educational Needs: Training 11 Dec 2024

  To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to improve training for teachers to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in (a) mainstream and (b) specialist education.

• Written Answers — Treasury: Financial Services: Euro 10 Dec 2024

  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 13971 on Financial Services: Euro, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate against the risk of the EU not extending its equivalence decision for UK central counterparties after June 2025.

More of Lauren Edwards’s recent appearances