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).

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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.

Date	Question	Their vote	Result
3 Sep 2025	Opposition day: Hospitality sector	No	158–334
3 Sep 2025	Opposition day: Property taxes	No	98–335
2 Sep 2025	English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Second Reading	Aye	365–164
2 Sep 2025	English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Reasoned Amendment	No	167–367
16 Jul 2025	Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 737) deferred division	No vote	333–54
16 Jul 2025	Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 deferred division	No vote	334–54
15 Jul 2025	Opposition Day: Tax	No	165–342
15 Jul 2025	Opposition Day: Welfare	No	106–440
11 Jul 2025	Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Report: Amendment 1	No vote	0–47
11 Jul 2025	Motion to sit in private	No vote	1–58
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Third Reading	Aye	336–242
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 38	No	149–334
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8	No	130–443
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 45	No	175–401
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Clause 2, as amended, and Clause 3 stand part	Aye	335–135
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 12	No	105–370
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 50	No vote	103–416
9 Jul 2025	Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39	No	35–469
8 Jul 2025	Football Governance Bill [HL]: Third Reading	Aye	415–98
8 Jul 2025	Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: Amendment 18	No	178–338
8 Jul 2025	Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 3	No	86–340
8 Jul 2025	Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 1	No	167–346
4 Jul 2025	Motion to sit in private	No vote	1–33
2 Jul 2025	Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025	Aye	385–26
2 Jul 2025	Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to insist on 2A and disagree with LA2B and LA2C	Aye	321–158

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

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Debates

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

Local Government Reorganisation 16 Jul 2026 · 1 contribution, 1 question
Immigration and Asylum Bill 13 Jul 2026 · 2 contributions
Topical Questions 30 Jun 2026 · 1 contribution, 1 question
Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services 24 Jun 2026 · 1 contribution, 1 question
British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme 22 Jun 2026 · 2 contributions
Health Bill (Third sitting) 18 Jun 2026 · 1 contribution
High Street Shops: Illicit Activity 17 Jun 2026 · 2 contributions
Health Bill (Second sitting) 16 Jun 2026 · 3 contributions
Belfast: Violent Disorder 10 Jun 2026 · 1 contribution, 1 question
Milburn Review: Interim Report 2 Jun 2026 · 1 contribution, 1 question

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.

Accepted	Recipient	Donor	Type	Value
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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