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Simon Lightwood

Labour (Co-op) MP for Wakefield and Rothwell, since 23 June 2022

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Minister for Equalities)

Simon Lightwood is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Wakefield and Rothwell, and has been an MP continually since 23 June 2022. He currently holds the Government posts of Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport), and Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Minister for Equalities).

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Scorecard

64.7% Attendance Below the median of MPs who vote
372 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
203 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 (Co-op) MPs
3 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
190 Debates spoken in 151 written questions tabled

Ranked 450 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
24 Apr 2025 Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [Lords]: Amendment 2 No vote 89–230
24 Apr 2025 Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [Lords]: New Clause 3 No vote 88–212
23 Apr 2025 Opposition Day: Sewage: Government amendment No vote 301–69
23 Apr 2025 Opposition Day: Sewage: Lib Dem motion No vote 77–302
23 Apr 2025 Opposition Day: Hospitals No vote 77–307
2 Apr 2025 The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 No vote 304–105
2 Apr 2025 Infrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025 No vote 307–100
2 Apr 2025 Draft Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025 deferred division No vote 349–14
1 Apr 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Second Reading Aye 303–110
1 Apr 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No 110–302
31 Mar 2025 Draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reduction) (England) Regulations 2025 Aye 296–164
31 Mar 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords]: Third Reading Aye 304–62
31 Mar 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 6 No 166–305
31 Mar 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 4 No 167–306
31 Mar 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 168–302
31 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendments 15B, 15C, 15D, 15E Aye 302–167
31 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 13B Aye 301–167
31 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2B Aye 301–104
31 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1B Aye 296–170
28 Mar 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 0–44
26 Mar 2025 Tobacco and Vapes Bill: Third Reading Aye 366–41
26 Mar 2025 Tobacco and Vapes Bill Report Stage: Amendment 85 No 92–303
26 Mar 2025 Tobacco and Vapes Bill Report Stage: Amendment 1 No 72–304
26 Mar 2025 Tobacco and Vapes Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No 159–307
26 Mar 2025 Tobacco and Vapes Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 No 137–304

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

£5,000

Name of donor: Coca Cola Europacific Partners
Address of donor: Pemberton House Bakers Road Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1EZ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 sponsorship of Yorkshire Day dinner
Donor status: company, registration 09717350
(Registered 14 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

Name of donor: UKREiiF (The UK's Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum)
Address of donor: 5th Floor, 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £950 in buying tickets for a table at the Yorkshire Day dinner
Donor status: company, registration 15086201
(Registered 14 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

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

Name of donor: UNISON
Address of donor: UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London NW1 2AY
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 to support the production of a constituency wide leaflet
Date received: 12 December 2025
Date accepted: 12 December 2025
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 12 December 2025)

On the register since 16 Dec 2025

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Debates

190 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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