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MP responsibilities

Your MP might: 

  • ask questions and look at the work and policies of the UK Government to check that they are serving the people of the UK
  • support a campaign to change the law 
  • help address the issues of people living in your area by holding regular open meetings, known as ‘surgeries’  
  • help make a law by speaking in a debate in the House of Commons or sitting on a committee in UK Parliament 
  • ask an official question in the House of Commons 
  • find out what the people in your area think about a particular issue

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Scotland MP

Your MP might: 

  • ask questions and look at the work and policies of the UK Government to check that they are serving the people of the UK
  • support a campaign to change the law 
  • help address the issues of people living in your area by holding regular open meetings, known as ‘surgeries’ 
  • help make a law by speaking in a debate in the House of Commons or sitting on a committee in UK Parliament 
  • ask an official question in the House of Commons 
  • find out what the people in your area think about a particular issue

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Wales MP

Your MP might: 

  • ask questions and look at the work and policies of the UK Government to check that they are serving the people of the UK
  • support a campaign to change the law 
  • help address the issues of people living in your area by holding regular open meetings 
  • help make a law by speaking in a debate in the House of Commons or sitting on a committee  in UK Parliament 
  • ask an official question in the House of Commons 
  • find out what the people in your area think about a particular issue

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NI MP

Your MP might: 

  • ask questions and look at the work and policies of the UK Government to check that they are serving the people of the UK
  • support a campaign to change the law 
  • help address the issues of people living in your area by holding regular open meetings 
  • help make a law by speaking in a debate in the House of Commons or sitting on a committee in UK Parliament 
  • ask an official question in the House of Commons 
  • find out what the people in your area think about a particular issue

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What is an MP anyway?

A video by young people at the Democracy Box, our youth voice partner for Wales, 2023.

Visit the Democracy Box's website