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
• Asylum: Hotels
• Iran: Hamas and Hezbollah
• 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 (3 out of 3)

Recent appearances

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 20 - Humanitarian travel permit 13 Mar 2025

  To go back to what the Minister said, does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the UNHCR schemes do precisely that?

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 15 - A three-month service standard for asylum casework 13 Mar 2025

  It is worth noting that, prior to February 2019, there was a six-month standard time. That was abandoned by the previous Government around the same time that they decided to open the borders. Home Office Ministers have been looking to speed up processing as much as possible. The new clause would be unhelpful because the Home Office is often waiting on outside checks to be completed. The Home...

• Public Bill Committee: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: New Clause 11 - Removal of restrictions on asylum seekers engaging in employment 13 Mar 2025

  This is another rare moment of general agreement with the hon. Members for Stockton West and for Weald of Kent. We will savour this moment. I will make some quick points on the new clause. It does create an additional pull factor for those seeking to travel. We do not know who is a genuine asylum seeker until their claims have been processed. The new clause would put a lot of people who are...

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