Official portrait of Jack Abbott

Jack Abbott

Labour (Co-op) MP for Ipswich, since 4 July 2024

Jack Abbott is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Ipswich, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

91.3% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
525 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
50 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 (Co-op) MPs
5 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
68 Debates spoken in 5 written questions tabled

Ranked 19 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 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 160–324
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 8 No 151–319
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 5 No 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.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Built Environment Networking T/A UKREiiF
Address of donor: 4240 Park Approach, Leeds LS15 8GB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Ticket to UKREiiF 2026, value £714
Date received: 19 May 2026
Date accepted: 19 May 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07110641
(Registered 10 June 2026)

On the register since 16 Jun 2026

Name of donor: Ipswich Town Football Club Company Limited
Address of donor: Portman Road, Ipswich IP1 2DA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: One ticket to the Ipswich Town F.C. vs Watford F.C. Championship fixture, value £540
Date received: 4 November 2025
Date accepted: 4 November 2025
Donor status: company, registration 00315421
(Registered 26 November 2025)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

Name of donor: Ipswich Town Football Club Company Limited
Address of donor: Portman Road, Ipswich, IP1 2DA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to an Ed Sheeran concert at Portman Road, value £1,128
Date received: 13 July 2025
Date accepted: 13 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 00315421
(Registered 23 July 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Non-Executive Chairman of Invest East. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 19 May 2026
(Registered 28 May 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

10. Family members engaged in lobbying the public sector on behalf of a third party or client

Name: Jade Pallister
Relationship: Partner
Role: Energy and Infrastructure Director
Name of employer: Seahorse Environmental
(Registered 27 February 2025; updated 5 June 2025)

On the register since 17 Jun 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

68 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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