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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
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 Aye 333–100
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 297 No 167–328
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 291 No 164–324
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 110 No 168–314
12 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 39 Aye 337–98
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: Amendment 288 No vote 105–409
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 87 No vote 106–340
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 30 No vote 189–324
11 Mar 2025 Employment Rights Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10 No vote 95–323
7 Mar 2025 Motion to sit in private No 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 Aye 317–55
25 Feb 2025 Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No 70–312
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 2 No vote 61–316
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 4 No vote 153–316
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 6 No vote 100–312
24 Feb 2025 Crown Estate Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 1 No vote 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.

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

The same register on parliament.uk →

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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