About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Alison Hume) represents you, and all of the people who live in Scarborough and Whitby, 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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Proffil

Llafur MP ar gyfer Scarborough and Whitby

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 5 Gorffennaf 2024 — Etholiad cyffredinol

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Themau o ddiddordeb

• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Department for Environment
• Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Dental Services: Scarborough And Whitby
• Energy: Meters
• Coroners
• Continuing Care
• Pathology

Swyddogaethau cyfredol

• Member, Backbench Business Committee (since 28 Hyd 2024)

Swyddogaethau eraill yn y gorffennol

• Member, Employment Rights Bill Committee (13 Tach 2024 to 16 Ion 2025)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Robert Goodwill
• Lawrie Quinn
• Michael Shaw
• Alexander Spearman
• Herbert Latham
• Sidney Herbert
• Gervase Beckett

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Employment Rights Bill Committee (21 out of 21)

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Shipyards: Economic Growth — [Christine Jardine in the Chair] 18 Mar 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Glenrothes and Mid Fife (Richard Baker) on securing this debate. For centuries, shipbuilding has been a pillar of British industry, contributing not only to our maritime heritage but to the economic prosperity of our coastal communities. In the 1790s, Whitby was the second largest...

• Women’s Changed State Pension Age: Compensation — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] 17 Mar 2025

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Cotswolds (Dr Savage) on her powerful opening remarks. According to the latest figures, there are 7,160 women in Scarborough and Whitby affected by the various Acts that made changes to women’s state pension age. As a candidate standing in Scarborough and Whitby, I pledged to support...

• Women’s Changed State Pension Age: Compensation — [Sir Edward Leigh in the Chair] 17 Mar 2025

  As always, the hon. Member makes a powerful point for his constituents, and I support his wider call for the Government to think again. Returning to my constituent who was looking after her father who suffered from dementia, had she been aware of the changes she would have increased her personal pension contribution and saved more money to enable her to retire sooner to look after her dad,...

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Alison Hume