Alison Hume is a British Labour Party politician and television writer who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby since 2024. In televisions she is known for her work as creator and executive producer of the CBBC series The Sparticle Mystery and the BBC drama Rocket Man.
Alison Hume
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| Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Goodwill |
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| Born | Kingston Upon Hull[1] |
| Political party | Labour |
| Education | Northern Film School |
| Website | www |
| Writing career | |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
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Hume was born in Hull and grew up in Essex, with her father, a teacher, being originally from York.[1][2] She moved back to Yorkshire with her parents, when they retired, moving to Poppleton.[2]
Hume attended the Northern Film School and trained on a Carlton new writers' course.[3] She worked as a television and film screenwriter, writing among others, the 2003 feature film Pure,[4] the 2005 TV movie Beaten.[5] She had her own production company, through which produced the CBBC shows Summerhill The Sparticle Mystery, both of which she wrote.[6][7]
Following her second son being born with a rare chromosomal disorder, Hume became a disability rights campaigner, eventually co founding York Accessibility Action. It was through her activism that she entered formal politics.[2][8] At the 2019 European Parliament election, Hume stood as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency.[9][10] In 2019 she unsuccessfully stood to be the Labour candidate for Rother Valley[11] Hume was also a candidate in the 2021 election for the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.[12] In 2023, she was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Scarborough and Whitby at the 2024 general election, a contest that she won with a majority of over 5,000.[13][14]
| Production | Notes | Broadcaster |
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| Pure | Feature film (2002) | — |
| The Vice | 2 episodes (2002–2003) | ITV |
| New Tricks | "Home Truths" (2004) | BBC |
| Beaten | TV movie (2005) | BBC |
| Rocket Man | 3 episodes (2005) | BBC |
| Roman Mysteries | 2 episodes (2007) | BBC |
| Summerhill | TV movie (2008) | CBBC |
| The Sparticle Mystery | 36 episodes (2011–2015) | CBBC |
| Holby City | 1 episode (2019) | BBC |
| So Awkward | 1 episode (2019) | CBBC |
| Jamie Johnson | 2 episodes (2020) | CBBC |
| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
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| 2008 | ||||
| British Academy Children's Awards[15] | Children's: Drama | Alison Hume (with Stephen Smallwood and Jon East), for Summerhill | Nominated | |
| Children's: Writer | Alison Hume, for Summerhill | Won | ||
| Royal Television Society Awards[16] | Writer of the Year | Alison Hume, for Summerhill | Won | |
| 2015 | ||||
| Royal Television Society Awards – Yorkshire[17][18] | Writer – Drama | Alison Hume, for The Sparticle Mystery | Nominated |
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby 2024–present |
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