Official portrait of Gregor Poynton

Gregor Poynton

Labour MP for Livingston, since 4 July 2024

Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Gregor Poynton is the Labour MP for Livingston, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. He currently holds the Government post of Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.

Scorecard

90.0% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
454 Votes cast out of 590 divisions, plus 77 as teller
59 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
5 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
75 Debates spoken in 56 written questions tabled

Ranked 26 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.4%. 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

590 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
11 Sep 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading Aye 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion Aye 293–218
10 Sep 2026 Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No 77–292
9 Sep 2026 Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 371–100
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 Teller 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 Teller 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 Teller 108–357
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 Teller 79–300
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No vote 170–316
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 No 77–317
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private No 1–79
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading Aye 411–102
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88 No 85–427
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67 No 105–410
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 No 166–346
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division Aye 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division Aye 330–109
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No 102–409
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No 93–323
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Teller 264–90
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading Teller 97–358
8 Jul 2026 Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 283–182
8 Jul 2026 Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 369–102

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. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: Community Union
Address of donor: 465c Caledonian Road, London N7 9GX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1,000
Date received: 10 February 2026
Date accepted: 10 February 2026
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 25 February 2026)

On the register since 10 Mar 2026

£10,000

Name of donor: Daniel Luhde-Thompson
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date received: 10 November 2025
Date accepted: 10 November 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 13 November 2025)

On the register since 18 Nov 2025

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Hanbury Strategy and Communications Limited
Address of donor: 2 London Bridge, London SE1 9RA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Tickets and hospitality at Lords Cricket Ground, value £750
Date received: 4 June 2026
Date accepted: 4 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 10361418
(Registered 8 June 2026)

On the register since 16 Jun 2026

Name of donor: Football Association Limited
Address of donor: Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London HA9 0WS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Four tickets (two adults and two children) to the Carabao Cup final, value £360
Date received: 22 March 2026
Date accepted: 22 March 2026
Donor status: company, registration 00077797
(Registered 1 April 2026)

On the register since 14 Apr 2026

8. Miscellaneous

Name of donor: Ceftus Ltd, 80 North Block, 5 Chicheley Street SE1 7PN
One ticket to the Kebab Awards (the value of the ticket was below the threshold for registration under Category 3.)
Date interest arose: 24 February 2026
Date interest ended: 24 February 2026
(Registered 12 March 2026)

On the register since 24 Mar 2026

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £10,000 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
10 Nov 2025 Gregor Poynton sitting MP Daniel Luhde-Thompson Individual Cash £10k

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 2 Oct 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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