Official portrait of Jo White

Jo White

Labour MP for Bassetlaw, since 4 July 2024

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Jo White is the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. She currently holds the Government post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office).

Scorecard

81.9% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
471 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
104 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
6 Interests declared 3 at £5,000 or more
100 Debates spoken in 58 written questions tabled

Ranked 145 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.3%. 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

575 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 No vote 152–337
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 30 No 77–390
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 9 No 104–317
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 6 No 167–313
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 24 No 182–307
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Clause 1, as amended, stand part Aye 389–102
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 46 No 105–381
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Third Reading Aye 320–171
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: New Clause 1 No 172–322
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Clause 2 stand part Aye 318–174
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9 No 83–319
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 7 No 174–321
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Remaining Stages: Amendment 9 No vote 160–324
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 8 No vote 151–319
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 5 No vote 78–316
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 41 No 164–333
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 40 No 163–339
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage New Clause 26 No 78–327
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Second Reading Aye 340–77
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No 78–292
16 Sep 2025 Child poverty strategy (removal of two child limit): Ten Minute Rule Motion No vote 89–79
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 121 Aye 316–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 62 Aye 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 61 Aye 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 60 Aye 318–170

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)

£32,000

Name of donor: Palace Yard Events Ltd
Address of donor: Audley House, 13 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Services of staff, value £32,000
Date received: 11 June 2025 to 17 July 2026
Date accepted: 11 June 2025
Donor status: company, registration 14294995
(Registered 16 July 2025; updated 13 February 2026 and 16 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

£5,000

Name of donor: Tritax Big Box REIT plc
Address of donor: 72 Broadwick Street, London, United Kingdom W1F 9QZ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 for the provision of my Parliamentary Summer School for children and young people from Bassetlaw.
Date received: 16 July 2025
Date accepted: 16 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 08215888
(Registered 27 July 2025; updated 13 January 2026)

On the register since 20 Jan 2026

£5,000

Name of donor: Bawtry Farms Ltd
Address of donor: Serlby Hall, Serlby, Bawtry, Nottinghamshire, DN10 6BA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 the provision of Jo White MP's Parliamentary Summer School for children and young people from Bassetlaw.
Date received: 2 July 2025
Date accepted: 2 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 03443510
(Registered 19 July 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: The Football Association Ltd
Address of donor: Wembley Stadium, PO Box 1966, London SW1P 98Q
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets including hospitality to the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC, (value estimated), value £750
Date received: 16 May 2026
Date accepted: 16 May 2026
Donor status: company, registration 00077797
(Registered 16 May 2026)

On the register since 19 May 2026

Name of donor: Hull Trains Company Limited
Address of donor: The Point, 8th Floor, 37 North Wharf Road, London W2 1AF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 36 rail tickets for Summer School students, value £1,634.40
Date received: 24 July 2025
Date accepted: 24 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 03715410
(Registered 20 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Elected member of Bassetlaw District Council for Worksop East ward. This is an unpaid role for which I do not receive remuneration. (It was previously registered under Category 1.)
Date interest arose: 4 July 2024
(Registered 22 February 2026)

On the register since 24 Feb 2026

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

3 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £42,000 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
16 Jul 2025 Jo White sitting MP Tritax Big Box REIT plc Company Non Cash Other £5,000
2 Jul 2025 Jo White sitting MP Bawtry Farms Ltd Company Non Cash Administration services £5,000
11 Jun 2025 Jo White sitting MP Palace Yard Events Ltd Company Non Cash Staff costs £32k

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 3 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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