Rachael Maskell
MP since 7 May 2015
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Rachael Maskell is the Labour (Co-op) MP for York Central, and has been an MP continually since 7 May 2015.
1995
Votes Cast
£256,869
Expenses 2024-25
19,154
Majority
56.6%
Vote Share
Expenses (2024-25)
£256,869
Year-on-Year
Election Result(2024 General Election)
Turnout: 43,323 voters
Parliamentary Activity
Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)
707
Written Questions
40
Oral Questions
336
Debates Spoken In⚑
441
Speeches⚑
539
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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1995 votes — page 12 of 80
1 AYE1 NODiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2 votes · 9 Sept 2025
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2 votes · 9 Sept 2025
7 AYERenters’ Rights Bill
7 votes · 8 Sept 2025
Renters’ Rights Bill
7 votes · 8 Sept 2025
3 AYEHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
3 votes · 4 Sept 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
3 votes · 4 Sept 2025
2 NOOpposition day
2 votes · 3 Sept 2025
Opposition day
2 votes · 3 Sept 2025
1 AYE1 NOEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2 votes · 2 Sept 2025
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2 votes · 2 Sept 2025
2 AYE2 NOUniversal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee
4 votes · 9 Jul 2025
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee
4 votes · 9 Jul 2025
Financial Interests(2)
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
University and College Union
£25,187 this donation is made to Solidarity Ltd to cover the costs of its support for the work UCU Parliamentary Group, of which I am the co-chair with Baroness Blower. The money does not come to me as an MP chairing the group.
£25,187
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
University and College Union
£25,187 this donation is made to Solidarity Ltd to cover the costs of its support for the work UCU Parliamentary Group, of which I am the co-chair with Baroness Blower. The money does not come to me as an MP chairing the group.
- Name of donor
- University and College Union
- Address of donor
- University and College Union, Carlow Street, London, NW1 7LH
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £25,187 this donation is made to Solidarity Ltd to cover the costs of its support for the work UCU Parliamentary Group, of which I am the co-chair with Baroness Blower. The money does not come to me as an MP chairing the group.
- Donor status
- trade union
Registered 22 January 2026
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
- Date interest arose
- 6 May 2025
Registered 7 May 2025
Activity Pulse
Questions asked and motions sponsored by Rachael in Parliament
Counselling and Psychiatry: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prevent (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists from working if they are not on a voluntary register.
Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the risks of (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists working without (i) statutory regulation and (ii) protect
Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that clinicians who have been found to have posed a risk to patients cannot set up as independent (a) p
Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) psychotherapists and (b) counsellors are subject to (i) professional supervision and (ii) cont
Economic Situation: Equality
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce economic inequality.
Sick Leave: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help reduce the level of work absence as a result of mental ill he
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is she taking to reduce the number of people in (a) relative poverty, (b) absolute poverty and (c) destitution.
NHS: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the training provided to NHS medical staff.
Palliative Care: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing a universal palliative care service.
Palliative Care: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in access to end of life care services.
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