About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (David Smith) represents you, and all of the people who live in North Northumberland, 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 North Northumberland

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

Social Media

• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Homelessness: Young People
• Social Security Benefits: Reform
• Money Laundering: North Korea
• Special Educational Needs: North East
• State Retirement Pensions: Women

Currently held offices

• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (since 5 Nov 2024)
• Member, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (since 28 Oct 2024)

Recent appearances

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  On Second Reading in late November, I wanted to express the concerns that I had with the Bill around coercion, commercialisation and the pressure on people who feel that they are a burden. Unfortunately, there was not enough time in that debate, and there is not much time today either. During that debate, the House was repeatedly reassured by some Members that the Bill was about to undergo a...

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Schedule 2 - Assisted Dying Review Panels 20 Jun 2025

  I have nearly finished. For that matter, what will stop relatives anxious to receive their inheritance from subtly pushing the option of assisted death? To conclude, as legislators the responsibility falls on us, in this place, to create outstanding legislation that provides clarity, certainty and benefits to our constituents and to the country at large, yet all my concerns from the start of...

• Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: USA: British Students Abroad 18 Jun 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support British students in the United States.

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