Councillors and MPs

Your local councillors and MPs

To find out more about your local councillors and MPs click on the relevant links below:

• Who are my local councillors?
• Who are my MPs?

If you are not sure which is your ward, please use the ward search

• Councillors
• What do councillors do
• Your local councillors
• Contact your local councillors
• Your MPs (Members of Parliament)

Councillors

The Council is made up of 57 councillors. Each of the 19 wards that make up the borough has three councillors, elected by residents of that ward every four years. The current political composition of the Council is:

Labour – 32 councillors

Liberal Democrats – 24 councillors

Vacant - 1 councillor

• List of Councillors by political party.

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What do councillors do?

Councillors make policy and take decisions on the council's budget, council priorities and how the council should be run. For example, part of their role is to make decisions on planning and licensing issues. They are supported and advised in their decision-making by officers who work in the various council departments and implement the decisions.

Councillors also champion local issues. They can help if you are dissatisfied with a council service by advising or directing you to someone who can help sort out your problem and can sometimes progress the case on your behalf. This is often done in advice surgeries where you can meet with the councillor for your ward and discuss your problem.

As community leaders they put forward proposals to improve their ward, which may include bringing together different community groups to develop a case for change.

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Your local councillors

To find out more about your local Councillors, including when they hold their surgeries,  click on the link below:

• Who are my local councillors?

If you are not sure which is your ward, then please use the ward search.

Contact your local councillors

You can write to your councillor at:

River Park House
225 High Road
Wood Green
N22 8HQ

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Your MPs (Members of Parliament)

Haringey is divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Tottenham represented by David Lammy MP and Wood Green and Hornsey represented by Lynne Featherstone MP.

Members of Parliament (MPs) are elected by a particular area or constituency in Britain to represent them in the House of Commons. MPs divide their time between their constituency and the Houses of Parliament in London. Once elected it is an MP's job to represent all the people in his or her constituency. An MP can ask Government Ministers questions, speak about issues in the House of Commons and consider and propose new laws.

To find out more about your MPs see Useful External Links below.

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Useful External Links

Ev lînkên li jêr parçeke cîtewna Belediya Haringeyê nînin.

Ji kerema xwe daxûyaniya me ya legal bixwînin beriya ku hun van lînkan bi kar tînin.

• They work for you
• write to them.com
• hear from your MP

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