Ms Diane Abbott
Labour Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Voting record
Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.
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Every Commons division on file for Ms Diane Abbott — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 1,523 of 2,376 (64%).
Covers 9 Mar 2016 to 11 Sep 2026 — Parliament’s votes data doesn’t go back further. “No vote recorded” is Parliament’s own list of members with nothing recorded for that division: it can mean absent, deliberately abstaining, paired, or excused, and the data doesn’t say which. Click a division title for Parliament’s own page for it.
Government & opposition roles
Ms Diane Abbott doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.
Declared financial interests
From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Ms Diane Abbott →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Role, work or services: Writing an autobiography
Payer: Viking- Penguin via Blake Friedmann Literary, TV & Film Agency Ltd (Book advance on first UK publication), Ground Floor, 15 Highbury Place, London, N5 1QP
(Registered 20 November 2024)
Payment: £22,500
Received on: 24 September 2024. Hours: 24 hrs.
Ultimate payer: Viking - Penguin, One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW, UK
(Registered 20 November 2024)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 2 October
2025. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code
of Conduct refers.
Payment: £18,450 Payment for autobiography sales
Received on: 12 March 2025. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Viking Penguin (Publisher), 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA.
(Registered 8 August 2025)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 2 October
2025. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code
of Conduct refers.
Name of donor: Heward Mills Ltd
Address of donor: Heward Mills Ltd, 77 Farringdon Road, London EC1M 3JU
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£2,005.19) and accommodation (£925), value £2,930.19
Destination of visit: Ghana
Dates of visit: 23 May 2025 to 1 June 2025
Purpose of visit: The Protect Black Women Tour - Black Women leaders and allies from the UK and the US gathered in Accra, Ghana for a Liberation Tour to mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and to establish the Protect Black Women Accra Principles.
(Registered 3 July 2025)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 2 October
2025. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code
of Conduct refers.
Since December 2015, a trustee of the Diane Abbott Foundation, which works to excel and improve education. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 26 October 2016)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Ms Diane Abbott yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Ms Diane Abbott has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£275,195.24 paid out to or for Ms Diane Abbott across 52 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Ms Diane Abbott’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.
Early Day Motions
Ms Diane Abbott has tabled 2 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 24 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Ms Diane Abbott personally tabled — not motions Ms Diane Abbott may have added their name to as a supporter, which this data source doesn’t track per MP. See Early Day Motions for what this does and doesn’t cover.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Ms Diane Abbott is a listed officer of 1 All-Party Parliamentary Group on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.
Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Ms Diane Abbott personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Ms Diane Abbott is a listed officer of — ordinary members aren’t published. Amounts are Parliament’s own figures; where it gave a banded range the midpoint is used, so totals are approximate. Funders are grouped by name, so the same organisation spelled very differently may appear twice.
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