Feryal Clark
Minister Clark is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State forAIand Digital Government in the United Kingdom, working full-time at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology under Prime Minister Keir Starmer since July 2024. She has been a Member of Parliament representing Enfield North since 2019. She is affiliated with the Labour Party.
She also served as Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction, Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Patient Safety, and Opposition Whip. In local government, she served as Deputy Mayor of Hackney and held cabinet positions for Health, Social Care, Leisure, Parks, Environment, Neighbourhoods, and Sustainability in theLondonBorough of Hackney.
She represented Brownswood ward and later Hoxton East & Shoreditch. She was also Vice-Chair of London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee and the North London Waste Authority and a member of the London Waste and Recycling Board.
She is the Labour Party’s first Kurdish MP. She endorsed Yvette Cooper in the 2015 Labour leadership contest and Lisa Nandy in 2020. She supports Labour Friends of Israel and has spoken publicly in support of recognising the Armenian genocide.
Minister Clark has led several local campaigns and initiatives. She secured a banking hub for Hertford Road, restored full-time hours at Chase Farm’s Urgent Treatment Centre, and campaigned to protect local rail station ticket offices. She has supported over 18,000 residents with casework during her time as MP and secured increased police presence in Enfield North. She pledged to support residents in newly added areas like Ponders End, including hosting coffee mornings and helping with council-related concerns.
In her ministerial role, she has been active in advancing AI and digital policy. She has delivered a speech at the Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK conference and visited major institutions such as theUniversity of Cambridgeand Imperial College London to observe AI research and development. She has also contributed to national discussions on digital identity, AI governance, investment frameworks, and the risks of foreign AI models like DeepSeek.
Her stated priorities include improving public services, rebuilding the economy, investing in clean energy, addressing NHS waiting lists, recruiting more teachers, ensuring border security, and neighbourhood policing.
She was born in Malatya,Turkey, and is of Kurdish Alevi heritage. She migrated to the UK, where she later became active in politics. Feryal holds a degree in Biomedical Science and a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Exeter. She previously worked in NHS pathology.
