Official portrait of Dan Jarvis

Dan Jarvis

Labour MP for Barnsley North, since 3 March 2011

Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)

The Rt Hon Dan Jarvis is the Labour MP for Barnsley North, and has been an MP continually since 3 March 2011. He currently holds the Government post of Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office).

Scorecard

39.0% Attendance In the least-present tenth of MPs who vote
230 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
360 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
7 Interests declared 3 at £5,000 or more
628 Debates spoken in 3020 written questions tabled

Ranked 611 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.4%. Ministers and front-benchers vote less often than backbenchers for reasons of office rather than absenteeism, and Parliament does not publish reasons for any absence — the ranking is a starting point for a question, not an answer to one.

Voting record

590 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
11 Sep 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading Aye 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion Aye 293–218
10 Sep 2026 Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No vote 77–292
9 Sep 2026 Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 371–100
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 No vote 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 No vote 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 No vote 108–357
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 No vote 79–300
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No vote 170–316
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 No vote 77–317
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–79
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading No vote 411–102
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88 No vote 85–427
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67 No vote 105–410
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 No vote 166–346
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division No vote 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division No vote 330–109
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No 102–409
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No 93–323
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Aye 264–90
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No 97–358
8 Jul 2026 Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 283–182
8 Jul 2026 Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 369–102

Declared financial interests

Quoted in full from the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Entries where the largest figure is £5,000 or more are marked. A declaration is not a wrongdoing — the register exists precisely so that these things are visible.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

£13,500

Name of donor: OPD Group Ltd
Address of donor: Grenville House, 4 Grenville Avenue, Broxbourne EN10 7DH
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £13,500
Date received: 22 June 2026
Date accepted: 22 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 03201382
(Registered 17 July 2026)

On the register since 18 Aug 2026

£54,213

Name of donor: OPD Group Ltd
Address of donor: Grenville House, 4 Grenville Avenue, Broxbourne EN10 7DH
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £54,213.30
Date received: 23 June 2026
Date accepted: 23 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 03201382
(Registered 20 July 2026)

On the register since 18 Aug 2026

£15,000

Name of donor: OPD Group Ltd
Address of donor: Grenville House, 4 Grenville Avenue, Broxbourne EN10 7DH
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £15,000
Date received: 11 December 2025
Date accepted: 11 December 2025
Donor status: company, registration 03201382
(Registered 17 December 2025)

On the register since 6 Jan 2026

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Barnsley Football Club
Address of donor: Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley S71 1ET
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Three tickets, which included hospitality, to the Barnsley v Lincoln football match (value estimated), value £450
Date received: 29 December 2025
Date accepted: 29 December 2025
Donor status: company, registration 04573250
(Registered 21 May 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Name of donor: Barnsley Football Club
Address of donor: Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley S71 1ET
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets, which included hospitality, to Barnsley v Huddersfield football match (value estimated), value £300
Date received: 30 August 2025
Date accepted: 30 August 2025
Donor status: company, registration 04573250
(Registered 22 May 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

8. Miscellaneous

Trustee of Barnsley TUC Training Ltd, a local education charity. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 5 November 2013
Date interest ended: 12 December 2025
(Registered 20 February 2025; updated 20 March 2026)

On the register since 24 Mar 2026

Unpaid Director of Barnsley TUC Training Ltd, a local education charity.
Date interest arose: 5 November 2013
Date interest ended: 12 December 2025
(Registered 20 February 2025; updated 18 February 2026)

On the register since 26 Feb 2026

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

628 debates contributed to in total. The ten most recent:

Money declared to them

6 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £127,713 in total — from the Electoral Commission's register, which is a separate register from the one above. Money given to their party is not counted here; this is money declared to them.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
23 Jun 2026 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £54k
22 Jun 2026 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £14k
11 Dec 2025 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £15k
21 May 2025 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £15k
16 Jan 2025 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £15k
16 Sep 2024 Dan Jarvis MP sitting MP OPD Group Ltd Company Cash £15k

Where the public money goes — contracts and donations →


Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence; donations from the Electoral Commission's register. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 1 Oct 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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