MPsSteve Yemm

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Steve Yemm

Labour Party MP for Mansfield since (elected). An MP continuously since .

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Entries on this tracker

192

Each filed under the party they sat for that day

Register entries

6

As currently published

Declared while sitting for Labour

£19,931.83

5 of 6 entries state an amount

Party affiliation

PartyOfficeAreaPeriodBeganEndedSource
LabourMPMansfield – presentelected—Party history

Parliament's party history for this member: Labour ( – present).

Register of interests

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.

DateCategoryEntryDeclared valueSitting forSource
2. Donations and supportGrayling UK Limited - £1,506.07£1,506.07LabourRegister record
2. Donations and supportBioIndustry Association (BIA) - £4,442.48£4,442.48LabourRegister record
2. Donations and supportChamber UK Services Ltd - £7,200.00£7,200LabourRegister record
2. Donations and supportThe Royal Society - £3,051.28£3,051.28LabourRegister record
8. MiscellaneousIChemE hosted a science engagement session as part of Chemistry Week in Parliament, attended by young constituents from a school in my constituency, and funded the cost of their train/tube travel to and from Mansfield (the value of the travel costs are below the threshold for registration under Category 2.)Institution of Chemical Engineers—LabourRegister record
2. Donations and supportRoyal Society of Chemistry - £3,732.00£3,732LabourRegister record

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Latest on this tracker 192

  1. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Causing Death by Dangerous or Careless Driving: Sentencing

    This week marks a year since the death of Abigail Eggleston, the girlfriend of one of my constituents, in similar circumstances. She was killed by Liam Bowes in a hit-and-run incident. I am sure that the thoughts of all of us will be with her family and her partner, William Payne. Bowes was sentenced to 12 years in prison for causing death by dangerous driving. Does my hon. Friend agree that justice has to be delivered for victims of crimes like this, and does she welcome the Government’s commitment that those convicted of this crime, this offence, will not be eligible for early release, which would otherwise have effectively halved the time that Bowes would serve in prison?

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  2. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    Madam Deputy Speaker, before I start I want to say something about today’s date. Sixty years ago, a colliery spoil tip gave way above the village of Aberfan and slid down on to Pantglas junior school. One hundred and sixteen children and 28 adults were killed. Anyone who grew up in a coalfield community knows the name Aberfan. It is part of our shared history, and the people of that village have carried it every day since. I know that the whole House will have this in their thoughts today. I am grateful for the chance to raise an issue that matters a great deal to people in Mansfield, across Nottinghamshire and in former coalfields right across the country: the pensions of the men and women who worked in our pits, and whether we are finally going to give them everything that they are owed.

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  3. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I will give way, and I am going to take as many interventions as possible, but I would ask Members to be brief please.

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  4. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I certainly agree with my hon. Friend. It is long overdue. For years, a group of campaigners from Nottinghamshire and right across the country refused to let this issue go.

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    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I absolutely agree. There are too many people to thank and mention individually, but one of the campaigners—Mick Newton—a friend of mine for over 40 years, is here in the Gallery watching the debate tonight. Some of the campaigners are, sadly, no longer with us. I hope that their families know that their work is being recognised in the House tonight.

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  6. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I thank my hon. Friend for that recognition. It is important that we recognise those campaigners who are still fighting. I have to say this to every one of them: you have made a difference and a lot of what I am about to describe would not have happened without you.

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  7. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I agree with my hon. Friend completely.

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  8. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    I join my hon. Friend in thanking those he mentioned. In Mansfield and across the rest of my constituency, whole communities were built around the pits. My constituents’ fathers and grandfathers went underground—and plenty of them went underground themselves. They kept the lights on and the factories running for this country. It was hard, dangerous work, and many of them are still living with what it did to their health. The least we owe them is a decent pension. For a long time, they did not get that. When British Coal was privatised in 1994, the Government of the day agreed to guarantee the mineworkers’ pension scheme and the British Coal staff superannuation scheme. In return, the Treasury took a share of the surpluses. Over the years that followed, billions of pounds went into the Treasury while a lot of former miners and their widows got by on fairly modest pensions. People in our communities never thought that was fair, and they were right. I am proud that this Labour Government have started to put it right.

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  9. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    It is certainly important to raise those meetings and to have that conversation with members and trustees as frequently as possible. One of the first big decisions that this Government took was to hand the £1.5 billion investment reserve of the mineworkers’ pension scheme back to its members. That meant a 32% increase in their pensions. Last year, the Government did the same for the British Coal staff scheme, transferring the £2.3 billion reserve. That is the best part of £4 billion back where it belongs, and thousands of families in my constituency have felt that difference. What is left is the question of surpluses: what happens to the money that builds up in these schemes in the future and the money that is sitting in them right now? The trustees of both schemes have put forward proposals and I think they are sensible. The mineworkers’ pension scheme trustees have asked for three things: first, that around £1 billion of surplus that is locked up in the scheme is used to give members a new bonus pension now; secondly, that 100% of future surpluses will go to improving members’ pensions; and thirdly, that the bonus pensions awarded in 2024 are protected so they cannot be taken away

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  10. ParliamentSteve Yemm

    Mineworkers’ Pension Schemes: Nottinghamshire

    My hon. Friend raises such an important point about the urgency of this question. The third point that I raised really matters to people in my constituency. Members of the British Coal staff scheme have bonus pensions that are protected; members of the mineworkers’ scheme do not. I do not think that anybody could explain to a retired miner in Mansfield why his bonus should be less secure than the one paid to someone he worked alongside at the same colliery. We should fix that. The British Coal staff scheme’s trustees have made similar proposals, such as clear valuations showing whether the scheme is in surplus or deficit. I want to be clear about one thing: neither set of trustees is asking for the Government guarantee to be removed. Nobody wants to put pensioners’ security at risk and nobody is suggesting the schemes pay out money they might need to meet their commitments. We cannot, however, as my hon. Friend the Member for North West Leicestershire (Amanda Hack) pointed out, keep telling people in their 80s that fairness is coming at some point in future.

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2024 General Election: Mansfield

Held . Recorded result: Lab Gain. Majority 3,485. 41,087 votes cast from an electorate of 74,535. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Steve YemmLabour16,04839.1%
Ben BradleyConservative12,56330.6%
Matthew WarnesReform UK9,38522.8%
Phil ShieldsGreen Party1,3263.2%
Michael WyattLiberal Democrat7991.9%
Peter DeanSocialist Labour Party4231.0%
Wesley MilliganIndependent3350.8%
Karen SeymourTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition1230.3%
Zen BilasIndependent850.2%

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Parliamentary career

Seats held

SeatDates
MansfieldElected 1 time – present

Committee memberships

CommitteeDates
Social Housing Bill [Lords] – present
Infants, Parents and Carers Bill – present
Representation of the People Bill –

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