Official portrait of Paulette Hamilton

Paulette Hamilton

Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, since 3 March 2022

Paulette Hamilton is the Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, and has been an MP continually since 3 March 2022.

Scorecard

85.2% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
490 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
85 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
7 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
11 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
136 Debates spoken in 100 written questions tabled

Ranked 93 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
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 32 Aye 268–78
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 255–128
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Government amendment (a) to Lords Amendment 2 Aye 264–125
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 Aye 254–135
12 Nov 2025 Opposition Day: Energy: original words stand part No 97–336
12 Nov 2025 Opposition Day: Taxes No 101–316
5 Nov 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 43 Aye 268–80
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government amendment (a) in lieu of LA62 Aye 311–152
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion relating to Lords Reason 72B Aye 312–151
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 48B Aye 310–150
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion relating to Lords Reason 120B Aye 308–153
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1B Aye 310–155
4 Nov 2025 Opposition day: Welfare spending No 92–403
4 Nov 2025 Opposition day: Supporting high streets No 106–321
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill: Third Reading Aye 321–103
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 20 No 182–311
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No 173–323
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 12 No 82–314
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 170–328
29 Oct 2025 European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion No vote 96–154
28 Oct 2025 Opposition Day: China spying case No vote 174–327
28 Oct 2025 Opposition Day: Stamp Duty Land Tax No 103–329
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: Amendment 5 No 153–332
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 12 No 166–322
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 No 165–323

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.

1. Employment and earnings

Role, work or services: Media appearances
From: 16 January 2025.
Payer: ITN Productions, 200 Gray's Inn road, London WC1X 8XZ
(Registered 1 April 2025)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £600 panel member on the Jeremy Vine breakfast program.
Received on: 4 September 2025. Hours: 7 hrs attended over two dates (3 July 2025 3.5 hours and 13 August 3.5hours).
(Registered 4 September 2025)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £450 One in person appearance and two online appearances on the Jeremy Vine program.
Received on: 7 November 2025. Hours: 5 hrs estimated.
(Registered 18 November 2025)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £300 Jeremy Vine guest reviewer on the breakfast program, discussing current news affairs of the day
Received on: 5 December 2025. Hours: 5 hrs.
(Registered 15 December 2025)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £600 Jeremy Vine guest reviewer on the breakfast program, discussing current news affairs of the day
Received on: 19 March 2026. Hours: 12 hrs.
(Registered 23 March 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £270 for being a guest panelist on the Matt Allwright show, speaking on topical issues of the day.
Received on: 19 March 2026. Hours: 3 hrs (maximum hours), preparing for the programme and attending.
(Registered 8 April 2026; updated 1 June 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £300 Jeremy Vine guest reviewer on the breakfast program, discussing current news affairs of the day
Received on: 23 January 2026. Hours: 6 hrs Maximum.
(Registered 8 April 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Payment: £300 Jeremy Vine guest reviewer on the breakfast program, discussing current news affairs of the day
Received on: 8 May 2026. Hours: 6 hrs.
(Registered 1 June 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

Role, work or services: Sitting on hearings as an Independent Associate Manager
Payer: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Unit 1 B1, 50 Summer Hill Road, Birmingham B1 3RB
(Registered 21 March 2022; updated 5 October 2023 and 30 July 2024)

On the register since 19 May 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Registered Nurse at the Bank Universities Hospitals, Birmingham.
(Registered 21 March 2022)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

Vice President of the Local Government Association (LGA). This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 28 June 2022
(Registered 25 July 2022)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

No donations to this member appear on the Electoral Commission's register for this Parliament. Only donations above the statutory thresholds have to be declared, and the match is made on name — search the register directly if you are checking a specific one.

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 →

Machine-readable: JSON for this MP.

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