Alison Hume

Hume was born in Bushey^{[citation needed]} and grew up in Essex, with her father, an accountant, being originally from York.^[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] and the 2005 TV movie Beaten.^[5] She had her own production company, which produced the CBBC shows Summerhill and The Sparticle Mystery, both of which she wrote.^[6][7]

In 2025 Hume was one of the judges of the 'Self-Published Novel' category of the Comedy Women in Print Prize.^[8]

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][9] At the 2019 European Parliament election, Hume stood as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency.^[10][11] In 2019 she unsuccessfully stood to be the Labour candidate for Rother Valley^[12] Hume was also a candidate in the 2021 election for the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.^[13] 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.^[14][15]