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 8 of 80
1 AYE1 NOFinance (No. 2) Bill
2 votes · 16 Dec 2025
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2 votes · 16 Dec 2025
2 NOOpposition day
2 votes · 10 Dec 2025
Opposition day
2 votes · 10 Dec 2025
1 AYE1 NORailways Bill
2 votes · 9 Dec 2025
Railways Bill
2 votes · 9 Dec 2025
4 AYEEmployment Rights Bill
4 votes · 8 Dec 2025
Employment Rights Bill
4 votes · 8 Dec 2025
4 NOPension Schemes Bill
4 votes · 3 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill
4 votes · 3 Dec 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
Overseas Students: Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's immigration criteria on the number of international students attending universitie
Overseas Students: Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the impact of her policies on the supply of international students for
Overseas Students: Immigration Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Home Office decisions on the finances of universities.
Veterinary Services: Insecticides
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to protect freshwater invertebrates from pesticides used in veterinary tick and flea treatmen
Pets: Insecticides
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department’s policies of permitting the use of active substanc
Higher Education: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of redundancies in higher education in the last year.
Higher Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of university fee income is derived from international students in each of the last five years.
Higher Education: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the financial return to the economy of public investment in higher education.
Higher Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of tuition fee-based funding model for higher education.
Training: Trade Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been allocated to union-led workplace learning in each of the last five years.
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