John Whitby

MP since 4 Jul 2024

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John Whitby is the Labour MP for Derbyshire Dales, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

524

Votes Cast

£189,571

Expenses 2024-25

350

Majority

34.6%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£189,571

Staffing£134,738
Office£20,239
Travel£17,590
Accommodation£17,004

Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 51,272 voters

Labour
17,759 votes34.6%
Conservative
17,409 votes34.0%
Reform UK
7,728 votes15.1%
Liberal Democrat
4,860 votes9.5%
Green Party
2,830 votes5.5%
Independent
369 votes0.7%
True & Fair Party
317 votes0.6%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

102

Written Questions

31

Oral Questions

64

Debates Spoken In

84

Speeches

524

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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2 NO

Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee

2 votes · 9 Jun 2026

4 NO

Armed Forces Bill Committee

4 votes · 2 Jun 2026

4 AYE

English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill

4 votes · 27 Apr 2026

Financial Interests(2)

Employment and earnings

City Council Social Services

Role, work or services
Fostering
Payer
Derby City Council Social Services (Local Authority), Derby City Council, Council House, Corporation Street Derby DE1 2FS

Registered 3 March 2025

Miscellaneous

City Councillor

Derby City Councillor, (unpaid since 10 October 2024 and previously registered under Category 1) (Registered 19 July 2024; updated 3 October 2024, 30 October 2024 and 3 November 2025)

Registered 19 July 2024; updated 3 October 2024, 30 October 2024 and 3 November 2025

Activity Pulse

Questions asked and motions sponsored by John in Parliament

Football: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding Sport England is providing to support the development of Futsal in 2025-2026 financial year.

AnsweredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport25 Nov 2025

Forests: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many hectares of privately-owned Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites have received public subsidies to restore them into go

AnsweredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs24 Nov 2025

Mobile Phones: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing device-level protections to prevent children from s

AnsweredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology19 Nov 2025

5G: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the 2017 Electronic Communications Code reforms on the time tak

AnsweredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology12 Nov 2025

Child Trust Fund

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of automatically releasing funds in unclaimed adult-owned Child Trust Funds through the (a) benefit, (b)

AnsweredTreasury11 Nov 2025

Children in Care: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing match-funding for incentive payments to Stepladder PLUS.

AnsweredDepartment for Education11 Nov 2025

Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects the Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers to be implemented across the UK; and what assessment he has made

AnsweredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs11 Nov 2025

Bottles: Plastics

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) all plastic bottles sold in the UK are fully recyclable and (b) 100 per ce

AnsweredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs11 Nov 2025

Carbon Emissions: Business Premises and Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of potential challenges to decarbonise (a) homes and (b) businesses that (i) use alternative ene

AnsweredDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero11 Nov 2025

Building Digital UK: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made provisions for the recovery of public funds from contractors who fail to deliver on Building Digit

AnsweredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology5 Nov 2025
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