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Paula Barker

Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, since 12 December 2019

Paula Barker is the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, and has been an MP continually since 12 December 2019.

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Scorecard

85.7% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
493 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
82 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
8 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
2 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
228 Debates spoken in 798 written questions tabled

Ranked 85 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 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 49B Aye 297–168
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 43B Aye 304–68
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 32 Aye 371–98
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit: Government amendment Aye 321–102
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit No 104–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Third Reading No vote 316–95
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No vote 87–404
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 18 No vote 94–315
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 14 No vote 98–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 3 No vote 90–318
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 97–363
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No 160–294
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 No 88–287
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 76–295
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines Third Reading Aye 214–3
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 4 No 88–226
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 3 No 86–222
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 No vote 85–238
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 95–257
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10 No 101–258
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 73–255
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Second Reading No vote 342–70
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No vote 74–337
25 Apr 2025 Closure motion No vote 12–50
25 Apr 2025 Sit in private No vote 1–73

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. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

Name of donor: Avanti West Coast
Address of donor: 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London W2 1AF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Train tickets provided for eight people from Transforming Choice, a rehabilitation facility in my constituency, to come to London on 18 March 2026 to see democracy up close. The attendees were two members of staff plus participants of the programme who have just graduated, value £2,864
Donor status: company, registration 14445025
(Registered 31 March 2026)

On the register since 14 Apr 2026

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Silverstone Circuit
Address of donor: The Jimmy Brown Centre, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TN
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: I attended F1 qualifying at Silverstone on Friday 4 July 2025 with my son. We were in the Directors Box and received hospitality tickets, food & drink, value £1,400
Date received: 4 July 2025
Date accepted: 4 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 00882843
(Registered 23 July 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

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Debates

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

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £6,745 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.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
24 May 2025 Paula Barker sitting MP Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Other Visit £6,745

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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