Official portrait of Richard Burgon

Richard Burgon

Labour MP for Leeds East, since 7 May 2015

Richard Burgon is the Labour MP for Leeds East, and has been an MP continually since 7 May 2015.

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
40 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
4 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
558 Debates spoken in 1971 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
17 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: Amendment 188 No 160–319
17 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: New Clause 36 No 159–317
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Third Reading Aye 333–100
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Schedule 2 Aye 333–100
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 297 No 167–328
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 291 No 164–324
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 110 No 168–314
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 39 Aye 337–98
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 288 No 105–409
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 87 No 106–340
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 30 No 189–324
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10 No 95–323
7 Mar 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–75
3 Mar 2025 Finance Bill: Third Reading Aye 339–172
3 Mar 2025 Finance Bill Report Stage: Amendment 67 No 167–347
3 Mar 2025 Finance Bill Report Stage: New Clause 8 No 176–332
3 Mar 2025 Finance Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 No 113–331
26 Feb 2025 Opposition Day: British Indian Ocean Territory No 147–298
26 Feb 2025 Opposition Day: Family businesses No 108–313
25 Feb 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill: Second Reading Aye 317–55
25 Feb 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No 70–312
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 2 No 61–316
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 4 No 153–316
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 6 No 100–312
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 59–316

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.

7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital

Name of company or organisation: Richard Burgon Campaigns Ltd
Interest held: from 17 January 2022
(Registered 28 March 2023)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

8. Miscellaneous

Non-practising solicitor.
(Registered 6 June 2015)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

Unpaid Director of Richard Burgon Campaigns Ltd, a company established for my campaign to be Labour’s Deputy Leader and which continues to help deliver my campaigns work.
Date interest arose: 16 April 2020
(Registered 24 March 2023)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

Unpaid Chair of the Brazil Solidarity Initiative, a network established to campaign for human rights in Brazil.
Date interest arose: 22 November 2018
(Registered 24 March 2023)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

558 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 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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