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Mr Toby Perkins

Labour Chesterfield

Voting record

6
Voted for
0
Voted against
3
Didn’t vote

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.

See Mr Toby Perkins’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Whip meter Estimate 85%

How often Mr Toby Perkins voted the same way as most of the Labour party, across every recorded division. Parliament doesn’t publish whether a vote was officially whipped, so this is our best estimate from the public record — not a confirmed fact.

Recent votes
Representation of the People Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading

Government & opposition roles

Mr Toby Perkins doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.

Previously held
Shadow Minister (Nature and Rural Affairs) — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2023-09-05 to 2024-05-30) Shadow
Shadow Minister (Education) — Department for Education (2020-04-10 to 2023-09-05) Shadow
Shadow Minister (Defence) — Ministry of Defence (2015-09-18 to 2016-06-27) Shadow
Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) — Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (2011-10-07 to 2015-09-18) Shadow
Shadow Minister (Education) — Department for Education (2010-10-08 to 2011-10-07) Shadow

Declared financial interests

From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Mr Toby Perkins →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets plus hospitality for the HSBC Championships at Queens, value £810
Date received: 21 June 2026
Date accepted: 21 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07475460
(Registered 30 June 2026)

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets plus hospitality to Queens Tennis Championship, value £300
Date received: 11 June 2026
Date accepted: 11 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07475460
(Registered 30 June 2026)

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London, SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to watch play at All England Club Championships, value £350
Date received: 4 July 2026
Date accepted: 4 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 15 July 2026)

Name of donor: All England Lawn Tennis Club
Address of donor: Church Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AE
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to the Championships at AELTC (no hospitality), value £320
Date received: 5 July 2026
Date accepted: 5 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07546718
(Registered 31 July 2026)

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: A ticket to the Championships at All England Club (without hospitality), value £175
Date received: 6 July 2026
Date accepted: 6 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 2 August 2026)

Written questions to government

No written questions on file for Mr Toby Perkins yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Mr Toby Perkins has ever tabled.

Business costs (IPSA)

£327,155.44 paid out to or for Mr Toby Perkins across 225 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 Mr Toby Perkins’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.

By category
Staffing — £229,540.85 (2 claims)
Office Costs — £45,315.22 (168 claims)
Accommodation — £34,271.00 (31 claims)
MP Travel — £9,078.98 (13 claims)
Staff Travel — £8,113.20 (9 claims)
Dependant Travel — £836.19 (2 claims)
Most recent claims
Utilities — £338.35, 2026-04-23 — Electricity
Utilities — £245.02, 2026-04-23 — Gas
Recruitment Services &Costs — £173.56, 2026-03-26 — TRAINLINE.COM [200013613-15367]
Stationery & printing — £686.04, 2026-03-17 — Banner March 2026
Mobile telephone - contract & usage — £101.80, 2026-03-05 — Mobile phone charges
Utilities — £100.00, 2026-03-05 — Electricity
Stationery & printing — £50.74, 2026-03-04 — Banner March 2026
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection — £89.87, 2026-02-19 — Waste disposal charges

Every claim on file for Mr Toby Perkins →

Early Day Motions

No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Mr Toby Perkins — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Mr Toby Perkins’s full record.

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Mr Toby Perkins is a listed officer of 3 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Turnaround and Business Improvement — Officer
Declared funding: The Institute for Turnaround (£21,001-22,500).
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships — Chair & Registered Contact
Declared funding: Connect Public Affairs (£55,501-57,000).
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tennis — Chair & Registered Contact
Declared funding: Lawn Tennis Association (£1,501-3,000).
Who funds these groups

Biggest declared funder across these groups: Connect Public Affairs — about £56,250.50 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships).

Connect Public Affairs — about £56,250.50, 1 group
The Institute for Turnaround — about £21,750.50, 1 group
Lawn Tennis Association — about £2,250.50, 1 group

Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Mr Toby Perkins personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Mr Toby Perkins 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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