Official portrait of Heidi Alexander

Heidi Alexander

Labour MP for Swindon South, since 4 July 2024

Secretary of State for Transport

The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander is the Labour MP for Swindon South, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. She currently holds the Government post of Secretary of State for Transport.

Scorecard

62.8% Attendance Below the median of MPs who vote
361 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
214 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
2 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
466 Debates spoken in 168 written questions tabled

Ranked 471 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 No vote 297–168
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 43B No vote 304–68
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 32 No vote 371–98
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit: Government amendment No vote 321–102
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit No vote 104–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Third Reading Aye 316–95
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 87–404
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 18 No 94–315
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 14 No 98–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 3 No 90–318
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No vote 97–363
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No vote 160–294
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 No vote 88–287
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No vote 76–295
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines Third Reading No vote 214–3
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 4 No vote 88–226
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 3 No vote 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 vote 95–257
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10 No vote 101–258
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No vote 73–255
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Second Reading Aye 342–70
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No 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.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Panattoni UK Developments Limited
Address of donor: 19 – 21 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4PU
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Dinner at Club Ocho, 8 Imperial Square, Cheltenham, including transport to and from venue. Dinner attended alongside one other MP and one local councillor, value £412
Date received: 28 November 2025
Date accepted: 28 November 2025
Donor status: company, registration 10892613
(Registered 9 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

6. Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000 and where indicated, the portfolio provides a rental income of over £10,000 a year

Type of land/property: Residential property (House)
Number of properties: 1
Location: Swindon
Ownership details: Co-owned with a family member
(Registered 26 July 2024)

On the register since 1 Aug 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

466 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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