Becky Gittins
{{Short description|British politician}}
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| name = Becky Gittins
| honorific-suffix = MP
| office = Member of Parliament
for Clwyd East
| parliament = United Kingdom
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| alma_mater = University of Warwick
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Rebecca Gittins{{Cite Hansard |title=Members Sworn |jurisdiction=Parliament of the United Kingdom |house=House of Commons |date=11 July 2024 |volume=752 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-07-11/debates/9E3094E5-9E75-4901-8B79-7554EB3C9EB4/MembersSworn}} (born 1994 or 1995) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Clwyd East since 2024. She gained the seat by beating incumbent Conservative MP, James Davies.{{Cite web |title=Clwyd East {{!}} General Election 2024 |url=https://election.news.sky.com/elections/general-election-2024/clwyd-east-154 |access-date=5 July 2024 |publisher=Sky News}}
Career
After coming to Coventry to study at the University of Warwick in 2013, she remained in the city, eventually being elected as a councillor for Earlsdon ward in Coventry City Council for the Labour Party, serving from 5 May 2019 to 18 September 2023.{{Cite web |title=City councillor stands down triggering by-election |url=https://edemocracy.coventry.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2685 |access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=Coventry City Council}} During this time she served on Scrutiny Boards, the Licensing and Regulatory Committee, and was the Deputy Cabinet Member for Children and Young People. She resigned her position in September 2023 in order to run as the prospective Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Clwyd East, the area in North Wales she was born and brought up in, triggering a by-election.{{Cite web |title=Election results for Earlsdon {{!}} Local City & Parish Council Elections - Thursday, 2nd May, 2019 | date=2 May 2019 |url=https://edemocracy.coventry.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=78&RPID=32077589 |access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=Coventry City Council}}{{Cite web |title=City councillor stands down triggering by-election |url=https://www.coventry.gov.uk/news/article/4758/city-councillor-stands-down-triggering-by-election |access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=Coventry City Council}}
The BBC described her as a "former accountant and civil servant".{{Cite web |date=2024-07-05 |title=Election results Wales: Who are the 13 new Welsh MPs? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce785rxr59po |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}} North Wales Live said Gittins "trained as an accountant and worked in finance and has also served as a councillor. Her job before election was as a trade union negotiator."{{Cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Owen |last2=Mosalski |first2=Ruth |date=2024-07-05 |title=The full list of all eight MPs in North Wales and who they are |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/full-list-eight-mps-north-29480587 |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=North Wales Live |language=en}}
In November 2024, Gittins voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which proposes to legalise assisted suicide.{{cite web |title=Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading |url=https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/commons/division/1877 |website=Votes in Parliament |date=29 November 2024}}
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External links
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Category:Coventry City Councillors
Category:Labour Party (UK) councillors
Category:Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies
Category:Women councillors in England
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