About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Chris Murray) represents you, and all of the people who live in Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh

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

Social Media

• @chrismurraymp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Home Office
• Northern Ireland Office
• Scotland Office
• Wales Office
• Visas: Overseas Students
• Immigration: Scotland
• Asylum: Refugees
• Immigration: EU Nationals
• Childcare: Northern Ireland

Currently held offices

• Member, Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (since 18 Jun 2025)
• Member, Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee (since 9 Jun 2025)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (since 21 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (12 Feb 2025 to 18 Mar 2025)
• Member, Employment Rights Bill Committee (19 Nov 2024 to 16 Jan 2025)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)
• Member, Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee (23 Oct 2024 to 31 Oct 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Gavin Strang

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (6 out of 7)
• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Employment Rights Bill Committee (18 out of 21)
• Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Northern Ireland Office: Childcare: Northern Ireland 2 Jul 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on improving childcare provision in Northern Ireland.

• Refugee Citizenship Rights 1 Jul 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Ms Butler. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Alloa and Grangemouth (Brian Leishman) on securing this really important debate. Before we begin, I declare an interest: my office receives support from the Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy Project, or RAMP. I would like to make a couple of points about refugee citizenship....

• Refugee Citizenship Rights 1 Jul 2025

  The hon. Gentleman and I have debated this issue a lot. I was not debating whether citizenship is a good or a bad thing—I fully believe it is a good thing. My point was that citizens do not get many more rights and entitlements in Britain today than people who are settled. We could have a wider debate about whether that is fine—I think we should—but a lot of things, such as applying to...

More of Chris Murray’s recent appearances

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