The borough’s MPs represent the local area in Parliament and can take up issues relating to government policy or departments. MPs are there to help only with those matters for which Parliament or central government is responsible.

Your MP is not there to help you in private disputes with neighbours, with an employer, with family matters or with companies who have sold you faulty goods; nor, for example, can they interfere with decisions made by courts.

MPs hold advice sessions where you can meet them and ask for their help.

Your MPs

Barking constituency

The constituency serves these wards:

• Abbey
• Alibon (split ward)
• Barking Riverside
• Becontree
• Eastbury
• Gascoigne
• Goresbrook (split ward)
• Longbridge
• Mayesbrook
• Northbury
• Parsloes (split ward)
• Thames View
• Valence (split ward)

Dagenham and Rainham constituency

The constituency serves these wards:

• Alibon (split ward)
• Beam
• Beam Park (from the London Borough of Havering)
• Chadwell Heath (split ward)
• Eastbrook & Rush Green
• Elm Park (from the London Borough of Havering)
• Goresbrook (split ward)
• Heath
• Parsloes (split ward)
• Rainham and Wennington (from the London Borough of Havering)
• South Hornchurch (from the London Borough of Havering)
• Vallence (split ward)
• Village
• Whalebone

Ilford South constituency

• Chadwell Heath (split ward)

Greater London Authority

Barking and Dagenham is part of the City and East constituency of the Greater London Authority and is represented by Unmesh Desai, Assembly Member.