About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Yvette Cooper) represents you, and all of the people who live in Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, 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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Llafur MP ar gyfer Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 1 Mai 1997 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Also represented Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford; Pontefract and Castleford

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

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• @YvetteCooperMP
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

Yvette Cooper campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Office
• Home Department
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Treasury
• Work and Pensions
• Visas: Ukraine
• Coronavirus: Disease Control
• Refugees: Ukraine
• Asylum: Children
• Glass: Recycling

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• The Secretary of State for the Home Department (since 5 Gor 2024)

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• Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department (29 Tach 2021 to 30 Mai 2024)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (20 Mai 2020 to 15 Rha 2021)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (11 Mai 2020 to 25 Ion 2022)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (27 Ion 2020 to 1 Rha 2021)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (27 Ion 2020 to 1 Rha 2021)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (27 Ion 2020 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (27 Ion 2020 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system (13 Chw 2019 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) ( 6 Tach 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (30 Hyd 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (12 Gor 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (12 Gor 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (12 Gor 2017 to 6 Tach 2019)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (28 Tach 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Commons) (19 Hyd 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (19 Hyd 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (19 Hyd 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Chair, Home Affairs Committee (19 Hyd 2016 to 3 Mai 2017)
• Shadow Home Secretary (20 Ion 2011 to 14 Med 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Women and Equalities) (20 Ion 2011 to 7 Hyd 2013)
• Shadow Foreign Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities ( 8 Hyd 2010 to 20 Ion 2011)
• Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (12 Mai 2010 to 8 Hyd 2010)
• The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( 6 Meh 2009 to 6 Mai 2010)
• The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (24 Ion 2008 to 5 Meh 2009)
• Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Housing) (28 Meh 2007 to 24 Ion 2008)
• Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Housing and Planning) ( 5 Mai 2006 to 28 Meh 2007)
• Minister of State (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) (Housing and Planning) (10 Mai 2005 to 5 Mai 2006)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) (Regeneration and Regional Developement) (13 Meh 2003 to 10 Mai 2005)
• Parliamentary Secretary (Lord Chancellor's Department) (29 Mai 2002 to 13 Meh 2003)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (11 Hyd 1999 to 28 Mai 2002)
• Member, Employment Sub-committee (23 Gor 1997 to 29 Tach 1999)
• Member, Education & Employment Committee (14 Gor 1997 to 29 Tach 1999)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Greater London Authority Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Housing Bill Committee (12 out of 19)
• Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
• European Parliament (Representation) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)
• Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill Committee (7 out of 7)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Written Ministerial Statements — Home Office: UK-France Migration Co-operation 11 Jul 2025

  Yesterday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the French Republic announced a first of its kind agreement, which will be operationalised in the coming weeks, between the UK and France to return people who have arrived on small boats as part of a new one for one pilot agreement to prevent small boat crossings. The initiative will help undermine the organised...

• Home Department: Neighbourhood Policing 7 Jul 2025

  I join you, Mr Speaker, in remembering the 52 people who never came home on that terrible day, as we remember the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London terrorist attacks, and remember too all those whose lives were changed that day. I will say more on this matter during topicals. The Government are rebuilding neighbourhood policing after it was decimated under the previous Government. This year...

• Home Department: Neighbourhood Policing 7 Jul 2025

  I welcome the hon. Member’s point about specials. They play an extremely important role and the drop in the number of specials across the country in the years before the ones to which she refers was even steeper. I am pleased that Sussex police are getting not just 43 additional neighbourhood police officers, but a further 21 specials into neighbourhood teams this year. We will continue to...

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