Labour Party MP for Leeds West and Pudsey since (elected). An MP continuously since .
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£5,550
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| Party | Office | Area | Period | Began | Ended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | MP | Leeds West and Pudsey | – present | elected | — | Party history |
Parliament's party history for this member: Labour ( – present).
Every entry the member has in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, as Parliament currently publishes it. The wording and values are the member's own declarations; nothing here has been assessed by this site.
Totals add only the entries that declare an amount received: payments for work, donations, gifts, and funded visits (register categories 1.1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Ongoing employment is listed but not added, because its figure is a rate rather than a sum received. Each entry is dated by when the benefit happened, not when it was registered, and placed under the party the member sat for on that date. A member who changed party therefore has a separate total for each.
| Date | Category | Entry | Declared value | Sitting for | Source |
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| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Rachel Parker - £550.00 | £550 | Labour | Register record | |
| 2. Donations and support | Sir Trevor Chinn - £5,000.00 | £5,000 | Labour | Register record | |
| 6. Land and property | Property in London | — | Labour | Register record | |
| date published | 1. Employment and earnings | Writing a book - Peters Fraser & Dunlop Limited | — | Labour | Register record |
The Government recognise that energy costs, inflation and global pressures continue to squeeze household budgets. That is why we have taken careful, targeted action through the great British summer savings package which launches on Thursday, cutting VAT on summer activities so that adventure parks, soft play centres, cinemas and theatres will be cheaper, alongside the work we are doing to maintain the triple lock and to lift children out of poverty.
The measures I took in my Budget last year took £150 off energy bills by getting rid of some levies altogether and moving others to general taxation. If we look at the most recent inflation numbers, inflation in the UK was 2.8% last month, which compares to 3.2% in the eurozone and 4% in the US. Food inflation was at its lowest rate for 17 months.
As my hon. Friend knows, we are investing £3 billion in local bus services to both improve the service for passengers and freeze bus fares until at least March next year. This summer there will be unlimited free travel for children aged between five and 15 in his Cannock Chase constituency and across the country. I also give a special shout-out to my mayor, Tracy Brabin, for the beautiful Weaver Network of electric buses, manufactured in Northern Ireland and Yorkshire, and serving the people of West Yorkshire.
The Government remain dedicated to raising living standards for people in Falkirk and across the UK by driving economic growth and bearing down on inflation, which I know continues to squeeze household budgets. Measures announced in my Budget last year are already taking effect: raising the national living wage and the national minimum wage; maintaining the triple lock on pensions; and extending free school meals to more families. Our great British summer savings package builds on that, reducing VAT on a whole range of summer attractions, including, I believe, Airthrill in my hon. Friend’s constituency.
We timed the great British summer savings so that they start on the first day of the Scottish school holidays and continues to 1 September, when children in England, Wales and Northern Ireland return to school. We hope that the scheme has a big impact on families around the country, alongside the free bus travel in England in August. We did not start the war in the middle east, we did not join it, and I have been clear about my views on it, but the war is clearly having consequences here at home. We will continue to monitor the situation and take every action necessary to support families.
The Treasury published the Green Book supplementary guidance on wellbeing, which helps officials to assess how their policies and projects affect the wellbeing of citizens, in 2021. In February, this Government published an update to the Green Book that reaffirms the importance of considering wellbeing. Most importantly, my new Green Book will support fairer and more balanced decisions on investment in every part of the country, including outside London and the south-east, across urban, rural and coastal communities, so that projects have a better chance of securing Government funding.
I will ensure that the relevant Minister meets my hon. Friend and others to discuss how we can make further enhancements to the Green Book. Something that has held Britain back for too long is that projects outside London and the south-east, including in rural and coastal communities, have missed out on funding because of the way in which the Treasury used to evaluate those projects. I have changed those rules so that we can make investments in all parts of the United Kingdom.
I am pleased to update the House that I met the Secretary of State for Defence and the Chief of the Defence Staff yesterday to talk through the defence investment plan. The Ministry of Defence is producing a defence investment plan that will meet the scale of the challenges and meet the moment with increased readiness. I am confident that the new defence investment plan will be published before the NATO Ankara summit. It will involve more money spent more effectively and will meet the scale of the challenges facing our country.
As I just said, the DIP will be published before the summit. It will involve more money spent more effectively, and it will meet the scale of the challenges we face. Frankly, I will take no lectures from the Conservatives, who left our armed forces, in the words of their former Defence Secretary, “hollowed out”. Our forces hit rock bottom for pay, morale and numbers. The Tories do not like to mention the £12 billion of cuts that they made to defence in their first five years in office. We are turning that around with the biggest uplift in defence spending since the end of the cold war. This Labour Government will continue to invest in defence, with contracts awarded to firms here in Britain to keep our country safe.
I thank my hon. Friend for her question. As Members will know, this Government are working on plans with our NATO allies for a multilateral defence mechanism. We have already signed a treaty agreement with Finland and the Netherlands, and we are working closely with Scandinavian, Baltic and eastern European countries. The multilateral defence mechanism will enable us to procure jointly and stockpile equipment off the balance sheet, ensuring better value for money for taxpayers and enabling innovative forms of finance to fund our defence. We are also working closely with Canada on the multilateral defence mechanism and the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, which lends to smaller businesses in the supply chain, so that we have one model to help us better fund defence in our country and across Europe.
Held . Recorded result: Lab Hold. Majority 12,392. 38,494 votes cast from an electorate of 70,069. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Reeves | Labour | 18,976 | 49.3% |
| Lee Farmer | Conservative | 6,584 | 17.1% |
| Andrea Whitehead | Reform UK | 6,281 | 16.3% |
| Ann Forsaith | Green Party | 3,794 | 9.9% |
| Dan Walker | Liberal Democrat | 1,743 | 4.5% |
| Jamal El Kheir | Workers Party of Britain | 633 | 1.6% |
| Darren Longhorn | The Yorkshire Party | 404 | 1.0% |
| Sasha Watson | Social Democratic Party | 79 | 0.2% |
| Seat | Dates |
|---|---|
| Leeds West and PudseyElected 1 time | – present |
| Leeds WestElected 4 times | – |
| Post | Dates |
|---|---|
| Chancellor of the ExchequerHM Treasury | – |
| Post | Dates |
|---|---|
| Shadow Chancellor of the ExchequerHM Treasury | – |
| Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of LancasterCabinet Office | – |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Work and PensionsDepartment for Work and Pensions | – |
| Shadow Chief Secretary to the TreasuryHM Treasury | – |
| Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)Department for Work and Pensions | – |
| Committee | Dates |
|---|---|
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade CommitteeChair | – |
| Liaison Committee Sub-committee on the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system | – |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | – |
| National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) | – |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade CommitteeChair | – |
| Treasury Committee | – |
| Business, Innovation and Skills Committee | – |
| Constituency | Date |
|---|---|
| Bromley and Chislehurst |
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