Profile

Labour/Co-operative MP for Stalybridge and Hyde

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Party was Labour until 30 Mar 2015

• Early Day Motions signed by this MP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Currently held offices

• Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy (since 29 Nov 2021)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( 6 Apr 2020 to 29 Nov 2021)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) ( 4 Dec 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (17 Oct 2016 to 31 Oct 2016)
• Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury) ( 6 Oct 2016 to 6 Apr 2020)
• Member, Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee (23 May 2016 to 31 Oct 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Transport) (18 Sep 2015 to 6 Jan 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Energy and Climate Change) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 18 Sep 2015)
• Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Member, Finance and Services Committee (26 Jul 2010 to 30 Jan 2012)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 11 Jun 2012)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• James Purnell
• Tom Pendry
• Fred Blackburn
• Gordon Lang
• Horace Cox
• Philip Dunne
• Sydney Hope
• Hugh Lawrie
• Edmund Wood
• John Tattersall
• John Rhodes
• John Wood