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
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 No vote 333–100
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 297 No vote 167–328
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 291 No vote 164–324
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 110 No vote 168–314
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 39 No vote 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 No vote 317–55
25 Feb 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No vote 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.

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 →

Machine-readable: JSON for this MP.

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