Pete Wishart

MP since 7 Jun 2001

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Pete Wishart is the Scottish National Party MP for Perth and Kinross-shire, and has been an MP continually since 7 June 2001. He currently undertakes the roles of SNP Deputy Westminster Leader, Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Home Affairs), and Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Constitution).

1294

Votes Cast

£294,385

Expenses 2024-25

4,127

Majority

37.8%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£294,385

Staffing£210,507
Travel£31,654
Accommodation£28,509
Office£23,714

Year-on-Year

2024-25£294,385
2023-24£268,798
2022-23£242,610
2021-22£194,750
2020-21£216,821
2019-20£195,898
2018-19£183,229
2017-18£176,198
2016-17£145,952
2015-16£146,817
2014-15£147,998
2013-14£150,879
2012-13£151,820
2011-12£145,747
2010-11£42,143

Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 50,077 voters

✓Scottish National Party
18,928 votes37.8%
Conservative
14,801 votes29.6%
Labour
9,018 votes18.0%
Liberal Democrat
3,681 votes7.3%
Reform UK
2,970 votes5.9%
Independent
679 votes1.4%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

49

Written Questions

19

Oral Questions

140

Debates Spoken In⚑

335

Speeches⚑

172

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: 722No: 572

1294 votes — page 1 of 52

2 AYE2 NO

Representation of the People Bill

4 votes · 2 Sept 2026

1 AYE2 NO

Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage

3 votes · 14 Jul 2026

2 NO

Immigration and Asylum Bill

2 votes · 13 Jul 2026

3 AYE

Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee

3 votes · 1 Jul 2026

1 AYE1 NO

King's Speech Motion for an Address

2 votes · 20 May 2026

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Financial Interests(5)

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

UK Music

Two tickets for Neil Young at BST concerts at Hyde Park. Shared with one other person

11 July 2025

£740
Name of donor
UK Music
Address of donor
Savoy Hill House, 7-10 Savoy Hill, London WC2R 0BU
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
Two tickets for Neil Young at BST concerts at Hyde Park. Shared with one other person, value £739.90
Date received
11 July 2025
Date accepted
11 July 2025
Donor status
company, registration 03245288

Registered 29 July 2025

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

UK MUsic

Two tickets and hospitality for myself and a staff member to the Music Producers Guild Awards 2025

24 April 2025

£708
Name of donor
UK MUsic
Address of donor
33 Foley Street, London W1W 7TL
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
Two tickets and hospitality for myself and a staff member to the Music Producers Guild Awards 2025, value £708
Date received
24 April 2025
Date accepted
24 April 2025
Donor status
company, registration 03245288

Registered 3 July 2025

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

An invite to the Royal Military Tattoo

20 August 2025

£452
Name of donor
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Address of donor
1-2 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1QB
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
An invite to the Royal Military Tattoo, value £452
Date received
20 August 2025
Date accepted
20 August 2025
Donor status
other (Charity)

Registered 18 September 2025

Employment and earnings

Employment and earnings

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Role, work or services
Ridge Records - Royalty payments
Payer
Ridge Records Limited, 1 York Street, Aberdeen AB11 5DL.
Additional information
I am also an unremunerated director.

Employment and earnings

Employment and earnings

—
Role, work or services
EMI - Royalty payments
Payer
EMI, EMI House, 43 Brook Green, London W6 7EF
Additional information
Royalty payments received in conjunction with Ridge Records Ltd. See entry for Ridge Records below.

Registered 1 May 2015

Activity Pulse

Questions asked and motions sponsored by Pete in Parliament

Prisons: Immigration Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Immigration Officers are were employed in the operational arm of the Foreign National Offender Returns Command Immigration Prison Team o

AnsweredHome Office29 Aug 2025

Prisons: Immigration Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the embedded hubs for the Immigration Prison Teams are located; which prisons are included in each hub; and how many Immigration Officers a

AnsweredHome Office29 Aug 2025

Ambulance Services: Medals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason paramedics employed by air ambulance charities are excluded from eligibility for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long

AnsweredDepartment of Health and Social Care25 Jun 2025

Housing: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help support people who are unable to re-mortgage their properties because of fire s

AnsweredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government26 Nov 2024

Immigration: Georgia

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to withdraw Georgia from the list of safe states

AnsweredHome Office8 Nov 2024

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the 14th Report of Session 2017-19 of the

AnsweredHome Office8 Nov 2024

Migrants: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of immigration detention (a) in total, (b) per person detained and (c) by d

AnsweredHome Office8 Nov 2024

Detention Centres: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of increasing the immigration detention estate by 290 places.

AnsweredHome Office8 Nov 2024

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to repeal Part II of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024.

AnsweredHome Office8 Nov 2024

Arts: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress she has made with Cabinet colleagues on easing restrictions for UK artists seeking to tour in EU countries.

AnsweredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport10 Oct 2024
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