Ben Lake

MP since 8 Jun 2017

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Ben Lake is the Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion Preseli, and has been an MP continually since 8 June 2017.

1598

Votes Cast

£250,650

Expenses 2024-25

14,789

Majority

47.0%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£250,650

Staffing£223,557
Office£18,809
Travel£8,284

Year-on-Year

2024-25£250,650
2023-24£230,089
2022-23£199,487
2021-22£185,599
2020-21£166,495
2019-20£163,808
2018-19£147,469
2017-18£95,514

Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 46,302 voters

Plaid Cymru
21,738 votes47.0%
Liberal Democrat
6,949 votes15.0%
Labour
5,386 votes11.6%
Reform UK
5,374 votes11.6%
Conservative
4,763 votes10.3%
Green Party
1,864 votes4.0%
Workers Party of Britain
228 votes0.5%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

341

Written Questions

8

Oral Questions

88

Debates Spoken In

111

Speeches

352

Divisions Voted

Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.

Voting Record

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Aye: 894No: 704

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1 AYE2 NO

Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee

3 votes · 9 Jul 2025

1 AYE1 NO

Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee

2 votes · 9 Jul 2025

2 AYE

Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage

2 votes · 8 Jul 2025

1 AYE1 NO

Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill

2 votes · 1 Jul 2025

2 AYE3 NO

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

5 votes · 20 Jun 2025

4 AYE1 NO

Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage

5 votes · 18 Jun 2025

1 AYE1 NO

Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage

2 votes · 17 Jun 2025

Financial Interests

No registered interests found.

Activity Pulse

Questions asked and motions sponsored by Ben in Parliament

Gaza: Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on allowing independent monitors to access detention centre

AnsweredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office25 Feb 2025

Hussam Abu Safiya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the (a) arrest and (b) detention o

AnsweredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office25 Feb 2025

Asylum: Syria

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, upon what evidential basis she will deem it sufficient to lift the temporary pause on the processing of Syrian asylum seeker claims.

AnsweredHome Office24 Feb 2025

Agriculture: Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with her counterpart in the Welsh Government on the application of the Barnett formula to agriculture funding in Wales fr

AnsweredTreasury12 Feb 2025

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve recruitment of HGV drivers.

AnsweredDepartment for Transport10 Feb 2025

Large Goods Vehicles: Motorway Service Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve truck stop facilities for HGV drivers.

AnsweredDepartment for Transport10 Feb 2025

Roads: Freight

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to extend full expensing to leased vehicles to support the road haulage industry in Wales.

AnsweredTreasury10 Feb 2025

Roads: Freight

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans her Department has to support the Welsh road freight industry.

AnsweredTreasury10 Feb 2025

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) Paying Parents and (b) Receiving Parents using the Child Maintenance Service disclosed domestic abuse in 2023-2

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions5 Feb 2025

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of child maintenance service cases are being dealt with by the specialist domestic abuse caseworker team.

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions5 Feb 2025
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