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Paula Barker

Labour Liverpool Wavertree

Voting record

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Voted for
0
Voted against
4
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 Paula Barker’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Every Commons division on file for Paula Barker — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 1,311 of 1,658 (79%).

4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private Ayes 1, Noes 79 no vote recorded
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Ayes 264, Noes 90 no vote recorded
15 Jun 2026 Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival Ayes 24, Noes 37 no vote recorded
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill: Third Reading Ayes 278, Noes 149 no vote recorded
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 148 Ayes 155, Noes 279 no vote recorded
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 143 Ayes 167, Noes 266 no vote recorded
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 1 Ayes 77, Noes 271 no vote recorded
28 Apr 2026 Privilege Ayes 223, Noes 335 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
4 Feb 2026 Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026 Ayes 392, Noes 116 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 26 Ayes 172, Noes 334 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 9 Ayes 181, Noes 335 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: Clause 86 stand part Ayes 344, Noes 173 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 25 Ayes 187, Noes 351 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 24 Ayes 184, Noes 331 no vote recorded
13 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: Clause 63 Stand part Ayes 348, Noes 167 no vote recorded
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 7 Ayes 188, Noes 341 no vote recorded
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: Amendment 3 Ayes 185, Noes 344 no vote recorded
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: Clause 62 stand part Ayes 344, Noes 181 no vote recorded
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No.2) Bill Committee: Clause 10 stand part Ayes 324, Noes 180 no vote recorded
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 12 Ayes 167, Noes 350 no vote recorded
7 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Jury trials Ayes 182, Noes 290 no vote recorded
9 Dec 2025 UK-EU customs union (duty to negotiate): Ten Minute Rule Motion Ayes 100, Noes 100 no vote recorded
25 Nov 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Third Reading Ayes 322, Noes 179 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2025 Bus Services (No.2) Bill: Third Reading Ayes 362, Noes 87 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2025 Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 10 Ayes 153, Noes 300 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2025 Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 23 Ayes 158, Noes 297 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2025 Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 58 Ayes 92, Noes 364 no vote recorded
10 Sep 2025 Bus Services (No.2) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 Ayes 69, Noes 300 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: Tax Ayes 165, Noes 342 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
22 May 2025 Data Use and Access Bill: motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 49D Ayes 195, Noes 124 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

Paula Barker 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 (Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government) — Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (2022-10-28 to 2023-11-15) Shadow

Declared financial interests

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

2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

Name of donor: Avanti West Coast
Address of donor: 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London W2 1AF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Train tickets provided for eight people from Transforming Choice, a rehabilitation facility in my constituency, to come to London on 18 March 2026 to see democracy up close. The attendees were two members of staff plus participants of the programme who have just graduated, value £2,864
Donor status: company, registration 14445025
(Registered 31 March 2026)

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: R&A Championships Limited
Address of donor: Beach House, Golf Place, St Andrews KY16 9JA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with hospitality to attend The Open Golf tournament at Royal Birkdale, value £948
Date received: 19 July 2026
Date accepted: 19 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration SC247047
(Registered 23 July 2026)

Written questions to government

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

Business costs (IPSA)

£340,180.63 paid out to or for Paula Barker across 189 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 Paula Barker’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 — £235,426.92 (1 claim)
Office Costs — £44,984.21 (152 claims)
Accommodation — £34,998.76 (26 claims)
Staff Travel — £13,662.91 (5 claims)
MP Travel — £10,550.25 (4 claims)
Dependant Travel — £557.58 (1 claim)
Most recent claims
Utilities — £324.67, 2026-03-31 — Dual Fuel
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £63.30, 2026-03-25 — Landline
Utilities — £75.95, 2026-03-24 — Electricity
Software & applications — £56.98, 2026-03-23 — ADOBE [200013613-5781]
Utilities — £166.82, 2026-03-13 — Water
Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection — £251.88, 2026-03-04 — CENTRAL WASTE [200013613-6557]
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £63.30, 2026-02-25 — Landline
Software & applications — £56.98, 2026-02-23 — ADOBE [200013624-2675]

Every claim on file for Paula Barker →

Early Day Motions

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

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Paula Barker 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 Ending Homelessness — Co-Chair
Declared funding: Crisis (£24,001-25,500); Crisis (£1,501-3,000).
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics — Officer
Declared funding: University of Portsmouth (£34,501-36,000); National Federation of Women's Institutes (£6,001-7,500).
All-Party Parliamentary Jordan Group — Vice Chair
No declared funding on file.
Who funds these groups

Biggest declared funder across these groups: University of Portsmouth — about £35,250.50 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics).

University of Portsmouth — about £35,250.50, 1 group
Crisis — about £27,001.00, 1 group
National Federation of Women's Institutes — about £6,750.50, 1 group

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