Official portrait of Mr Toby Perkins

Mr Toby Perkins

Labour MP for Chesterfield, since 6 May 2010

Mr Toby Perkins is the Labour MP for Chesterfield, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010.

Scorecard

77.0% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
443 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
132 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
2 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
6 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
906 Debates spoken in 1037 written questions tabled

Ranked 235 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
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 359 Aye 277–158
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 357 Aye 278–73
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 342 Aye 281–70
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 334 Aye 356–90
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 333 Aye 301–157
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 311 Aye 300–101
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 11 Aye 291–174
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6 Aye 299–169
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 307–176
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6 Aye 290–163
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5 Aye 292–162
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4 Aye 300–149
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 286–163
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 295–162
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 Aye 291–158
24 Mar 2026 Opposition Day: Defence No 98–306
24 Mar 2026 Opposition Day: Oil and gas No 108–297
23 Mar 2026 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6 No vote 278–164
23 Mar 2026 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5 No vote 281–167
23 Mar 2026 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 No vote 280–164
23 Mar 2026 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 No vote 279–167
23 Mar 2026 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 No vote 280–161
18 Mar 2026 Opposition day: Student loans No 88–266
18 Mar 2026 Opposition day: Fuel duty No 103–259
18 Mar 2026 Draft Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 277–99

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.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets plus hospitality to Queens Tennis Championship, value £300
Date received: 11 June 2026
Date accepted: 11 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07475460
(Registered 30 June 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets plus hospitality for the HSBC Championships at Queens, value £810
Date received: 21 June 2026
Date accepted: 21 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07475460
(Registered 30 June 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to watch Wimbledon Tennis championships, value £320
Date received: 5 July 2025 to 5 July 2025
Date accepted: 5 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 4 August 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

Name of donor: All England Lawn Tennis Club (Championships) Ltd
Address of donor: Church Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AE
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets plus hospitality at Wimbledon Tennis championships, value £520
Date received: 4 July 2025 to 4 July 2025
Date accepted: 4 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 07546773
(Registered 4 August 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets (with hospitality) to watch HSBC championships at Queens, value £1,015.12
Date received: 22 June 2025 to 22 June 2025
Date accepted: 22 June 2025
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 1 July 2025)

On the register since 15 Jul 2025

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Ticket (including hospitality) to the HSBC Championships at Queens, value £399.47
Date received: 12 June 2025 to 12 June 2025
Date accepted: 12 June 2025
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 1 July 2025)

On the register since 15 Jul 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

906 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 →

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