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Andy McDonald

Labour Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

Voting record

3
Voted for
3
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 Andy McDonald’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Every Commons division on file for Andy McDonald — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 1,794 of 2,376 (76%).

11 Sep 2026 Closure motion Ayes 293, Noes 218 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2026 Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading Ayes 77, Noes 292 no vote recorded
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 Ayes 162, Noes 297 no vote recorded
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 Ayes 106, Noes 302 no vote recorded
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 Ayes 108, Noes 357 no vote recorded
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 Ayes 79, Noes 300 no vote recorded
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private Ayes 1, Noes 79 no vote recorded
7 Jul 2026 Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners Ayes 115, Noes 0 no vote recorded
15 Jun 2026 Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival Ayes 24, Noes 37 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 8 Ayes 145, Noes 251 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 Ayes 65, Noes 251 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: Amendment 12 Ayes 81, Noes 266 no vote recorded
15 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 77 Ayes 271, Noes 95 no vote recorded
15 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 43 Ayes 273, Noes 159 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill: Third Reading Ayes 292, Noes 161 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 6 Ayes 175, Noes 292 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 5 Ayes 172, Noes 283 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 11 Ayes 174, Noes 292 no vote recorded
10 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill: Second Reading Ayes 304, Noes 203 no vote recorded
10 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading Ayes 203, Noes 311 no vote recorded
7 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Rural communities Ayes 105, Noes 332 no vote recorded
7 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Jury trials Ayes 182, Noes 290 no vote recorded
9 Dec 2025 Railways Bill: Second Reading Ayes 329, Noes 173 no vote recorded
9 Dec 2025 Railways Bill: Opposition Reasoned Amendment Ayes 170, Noes 332 no vote recorded
9 Dec 2025 UK-EU customs union (duty to negotiate): Ten Minute Rule Motion Ayes 100, Noes 100 no vote recorded
29 Oct 2025 European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion Ayes 96, Noes 154 no vote recorded
16 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 Ayes 334, Noes 54 no vote recorded
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Welfare Ayes 106, Noes 440 no vote recorded
11 Jul 2025 Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Report: Amendment 1 Ayes 0, Noes 47 no vote recorded
11 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private Ayes 1, Noes 58 no vote recorded
4 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private Ayes 1, Noes 33 no vote recorded
2 Jul 2025 Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 Ayes 385, Noes 26 no vote recorded
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106 Ayes 117, Noes 379 no vote recorded
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 Ayes 259, Noes 216 no vote recorded
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 Ayes 230, Noes 256 no vote recorded
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 14 Ayes 233, Noes 254 no vote recorded
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Third Reading Ayes 264, Noes 99 no vote recorded
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 24 Ayes 164, Noes 273 no vote recorded
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 16 Ayes 100, Noes 339 no vote recorded
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 4 Ayes 171, Noes 274 no vote recorded
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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

Andy McDonald 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 Secretary of State for Employment Rights — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (2020-04-06 to 2021-09-27) Shadow
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport — Department for Transport (2016-06-27 to 2020-04-06) Shadow
Shadow Minister (Transport) — Department for Transport (2016-01-07 to 2016-06-27) Shadow

Declared financial interests

From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Andy McDonald →. 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: Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Ltd
Address of donor: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough TS3 6RS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to the Southampton vs Middlesbrough football match, including hospitality (the amount is estimated), value £250
Date received: 12 May 2026
Date accepted: 12 May 2026
Donor status: company, registration 01947851
(Registered 8 June 2026)

Name of donor: Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Ltd
Address of donor: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough TS3 6RS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to the Middlesbrough vs Southampton match, including hospitality (the amount is estimated), value £250
Date received: 9 May 2026
Date accepted: 9 May 2026
Donor status: company, registration 01947851
(Registered 8 June 2026)

Name of donor: Middlesbrough Football & Athletic Company (1986) Ltd
Address of donor: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough TS3 6RS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets, including hospitality, for the Hull City v Middlesbrough football match at Wembley Stadium (estimated amount), value £1,250
Date received: 23 May 2026
Date accepted: 23 May 2026
Donor status: company, registration 01947851
(Registered 15 June 2026)

8. Miscellaneous

Solicitor (not currently employed as such).
(Registered 28 December 2012)

Crime & justice

Written questions to government

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

Business costs (IPSA)

£311,493.24 paid out to or for Andy McDonald across 127 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 Andy McDonald’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 — £238,312.68 (1 claim)
Office Costs — £38,191.52 (91 claims)
Accommodation — £27,251.89 (27 claims)
MP Travel — £5,408.17 (3 claims)
Staff Travel — £1,493.86 (3 claims)
Dependant Travel — £835.12 (2 claims)
Most recent claims
Utilities — £92.18, 2026-04-08 — Electricity
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £461.39, 2026-03-31 — Landline & internet package
Stationery & printing — £299.38, 2026-03-30 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £299.38, 2026-03-30 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £63.74, 2026-03-30 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £372.17, 2026-03-30 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £299.38, 2026-03-30 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £53.76, 2026-03-27 — Banner March 2026

Every claim on file for Andy McDonald →

Early Day Motions

Andy McDonald has tabled 5 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 173 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Andy McDonald personally tabled — not motions Andy McDonald 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.

Most recent tabled
Deaths of PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough — tabled 2026-09-01, 46 sponsors
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day 2026 — tabled 2026-05-14, 32 sponsors
Transition of rail workers into Great British Railways — tabled 2026-05-13, 23 sponsors
Payment of employment tribunal awards — tabled 2026-05-13, 28 sponsors
Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners — tabled 2026-04-16, 44 sponsors

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Andy McDonald is a listed officer of 4 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Acquired Brain Injury — Vice Chair
No declared funding on file.
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Spinal Cord Injury — Chair & Registered Contact
No declared funding on file.
Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group — Chair & Registered Contact
No declared funding on file.

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