About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Mike Tapp) represents you, and all of the people who live in Dover and Deal, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Dover and Deal

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
• Iran: Hamas and Hezbollah
• Asylum: Hotels
• Foreign Relations: Turkey

Currently held offices

• Member, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (since 12 Feb 2025)
• Member, Justice Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Peter Rees

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 35 - Restrictions on visas for spouses and civil partners 18 Mar 2025

  Given that the hon. Lady worked previously in a special adviser role and is lecturing us about caps, how were her Government successful with the caps that they set?

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 35 - Restrictions on visas for spouses and civil partners 18 Mar 2025

  I appreciate the collegiate working environment that we are now in. In which case, will the hon. Lady expand on the caps set by the previous Government and the results that came after?

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 33 - Borders legislation: Human Rights Act 18 Mar 2025

  Will the hon. Lady give way?

More of Mike Tapp’s recent appearances