Austin Mitchell

Labour

MP for Great Grimsby

Top Focus Areas

HM TreasuryDepartment for TransportDepartment for Business, Innovation and SkillsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsDepartment for Communities and Local Government

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Shadow Spokesperson (Trade and Industry)

Department of Trade and Industry

Jul 1988 - Jul 1989

Opposition Whip (Commons)

Whips Office (Commons)

Jul 1979 - Jul 1985

Constituencies

Great Grimsby

Elected 1 time

May 2010 - Mar 2015

Great Grimsby

Elected 3 times

May 1997 - May 2010

Great Grimsby

Elected 3 times

Jun 1983 - May 1997

Grimsby

Elected 2 times

Apr 1977 - Jun 1983

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

No voting records found

Committee Memberships

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) BillCommons Administration CommitteeCommons Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance CommitteeCommons Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)Lords Autism Act 2009 CommitteeLords Backbench Business CommitteeCommons Bishop's Stortford Cemetery BillCommons Built Environment CommitteeLords Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Commons Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committeeCommons Business and Trade CommitteeCommons Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsCommons City of London (Markets) BillCommons Committee of PrivilegesCommons Committee of SelectionCommons Committee of Selection (Lords)Lords Committee on StandardsCommons Committees on Arms Export ControlsCommons Commons Reference Group on Representation and InclusionCommons Communications and Digital CommitteeLords Conduct CommitteeLords Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)Joint Constitution CommitteeLords Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) BillCommons Court of RefereesCommons Courts (Remote Hearings) BillCommons Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCommons Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and DisinformationCommons Defence CommitteeCommons Defence Sub-CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

99 questions on record

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to create more affordable housing in London.

Answered

To: Department for Communities and Local Government • 17 Dec 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2014, Official Report, column 213W, on the Galileo system, what the cost was to January 2014; and what proportion of that cost has been paid by the UK.

Answered

To: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills • 27 Feb 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2015 to Question 219924, what the nature of the launch anomaly was; and what the result of the full inquiry was.

Answered

To: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills • 27 Feb 2015

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of raising the basic state pension by (a) 10, (b) 15 and (c) 20 per cent.

Answered

To: HM Treasury • 20 Feb 2015

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish in full Lord Justice Bingham's report, Inquiry into the Supervision of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, on the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, completed in 1

Answered

To: HM Treasury • 25 Feb 2015

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