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Chris Webb · Labour Party · sitting since 02 May 2024 · every division, speech and committee appearance.
Since election
722days
from 02 May 2024
Divisions
369
of 504 possible
Attendance
73%
135 absent / paired
Whip alignment
99%
vs party majority
Speeches
82
71 debates
Written Qs
34
34 answered
Committees
0
memberships
Expenses
£308k paid
FY 2024–2025 · 222 claims
Interests
3
2 categories
A · Overview
Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted — engagement only, not direction.
| Issue | Volume | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Taxation | 91 | |
| Economy | 89 | |
| Employment | 43 | |
| Education | 31 | |
| Constitution and Democracy | 26 | |
| Crime & Policing | 25 | |
| Housing | 24 | |
| Welfare and Benefits | 22 |
Speech topics
Words spoken, by topic. Source: Hansard.
| Topic | Debates | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Economy Jobs | 35 | 6,997 |
| Health | 14 | 5,078 |
| Local Government | 23 | 4,895 |
| Housing | 6 | 2,940 |
| Social Care | 15 | 2,634 |
| Transport | 8 | 2,303 |
| Crime | 15 | 2,059 |
| Cost Of Living | 17 | 1,984 |
B · Notable divisions
Free votes, rebellions and high-salience whipped votes — the moments that distinguish this MP from the party machine. The full division-by-division record will follow once the per-MP archive is wired.
| Date | Division | Whip | MP voted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Jul 2025 | Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Reasoned Amendment at Second ReadingMPs voted on a 'reasoned amendment' at the Second Reading of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill — a procedural move… | Rebelled | Aye |
| 01 Jul 2025 | Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Second ReadingMPs voted on whether to give the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill a Second Reading, allowing it to progress through Pa… | Rebelled | No |
| 16 May 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10Vote on whether to allow employers who opt out of providing assisted dying to also prohibit their employees from participating in assisted d… | Free vote | Aye |
C · Speeches
| Date | Contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Apr 2026 | North Atlantic Submarine ActivityDoes my hon. Friend agree that, while the Government rightly continue to defend our people, interests and allies in the middle east, we must never lose sight of the war in Europe a… DefenceEnergy | 43 |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Topical QuestionsMy constituents in Blackpool South pay more in council tax for their housing than people with mansions in Mayfair. That is because, under the Conservatives, Blackpool council had t… HousingLocal Government | 59 |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Southport InquiryI welcome the Home Secretary’s statement. My constituents expect Prevent to keep them safe, so can she reiterate what changes she will make to Prevent, as the Home Secretary in thi… CrimeSocial CareHealth | 44 |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Proposed Visitor LevyIt is a pleasure to serve under your leadership, Mr Efford. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group for hospitality and tourism, and as an MP for Blackpool—a town built on to… Economy JobsFiscal PolicyLocal Government | 781 |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Royal Mail: PerformanceAs the proud son of a Blackpool postie, I declare my interest in this debate and refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I start by thanking all … UtilitiesLabour MarketEconomy Jobs | 274 |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Youth UnemploymentI start by thanking my right hon. Friend for joining me at my jobs fair a few weeks ago, where more than 1,100 people secured work on the day. Some 900 are already in those jobs, w… Economy JobsEducationCost Of Living | 155 |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Business of the HouseFive thousand people walked through the door of the Blackpool Winter Gardens the other week for my second annual jobs fair, which I was delighted to open with the Secretary of Stat… DefenceCost Of LivingLocal Government | 98 |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Defending Democracy TaskforceI put on record my sincere thanks to the Minister for reaching out after the incident involving me that occurred in Blackpool a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, since becoming a Membe… CrimeMp PerformanceDefence | 123 |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Royal Mail: Universal Service ObligationI declare an interest as a proud son of a local postie. We know that this is not the fault of the workers; they work day in, day out to get letters out, but are being told to prior… UtilitiesLabour MarketEconomy Jobs | 176 |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Topical QuestionsTwo weeks ago, I held an emergency cost of living summit in Blackpool, after record numbers of families, particularly single mums, contacted us in food crisis. They could not acces… Cost Of LivingEconomy JobsUtilities | 63 |
| 10 Feb 2026 | Topical QuestionsIn Blackpool, around 75% of privately rented homes have damp or mould. It is a huge problem in our town, so I was delighted when the Chancellor announced £30 million in the warm ho… EnergyCost Of LivingEnvironment | 59 |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Business of the HouseLast year I hosted Blackpool’s biggest ever jobs fair. It showed just how strong the appetite is in our town for work, skills and opportunity. On 26 February, I am bringing it back… Local GovernmentCost Of LivingCrime | 158 |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Hospitality SectorHospitality in Blackpool is struggling. The cuts under the previous Government made Blackpool the most deprived coastal community and town in the country, but it has a solution: a … Economy JobsCost Of LivingLocal Government | 78 |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Topical QuestionsSouthshore in my constituency has the highest concentration of deprived communities and the most deprived ward in the country. We have developed a local people’s plan for work to r… Economy JobsCost Of LivingLocal Government | 57 |
| 27 Jan 2026 | Business RatesAs chair of the all-party parliamentary group on hospitality and tourism, I thank the Minister for his constant engagement with me since the Budget, because I have been able to rai… Economy JobsFiscal PolicyLocal Government | 132 |
D · Written questions
Top departments
| Department | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department for Education | 8 | 23.5% |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 8 | 23.5% |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 4 | 11.8% |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 3 | 8.8% |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 3 | 8.8% |
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 3 | 8.8% |
| Department for Transport | 2 | 5.9% |
| Women and Equalities | 1 | 2.9% |
Most recent
| Date | Department | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Feb 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the value of the Government grant-in-aid to the British Council was in each financial year from 2004–05 to 2024–25; and what assessment she has made of th… | Answered |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many items of correspondence relating to the British Council her Department has received since 5 July 2024. | Answered |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Department for Education | To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure transitional arrangements in post-16 qualification options before V-levels are fully implemented. | Answered |
| 22 Jan 2026 | Women and Equalities | To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle violence against women and girls. | Answered |
| 10 Oct 2025 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people in Blackpool receiving Personal Independence Payments due to a psychiatric disorder are adequately supported. | Answered |
| 22 Jul 2025 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the NHS budget was spent on primary care dentistry net of patient charge revenue in each year since 2010-11. | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Education | To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of school food standards on obesity levels among children in Blackpool South constituency. | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Education | To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to help ensure that school food standards contribute to reducing childhood obesity levels. | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many visitors accessed the Environment Agency’s Swimfo bathing water quality information platform in each of the last three years; and what assessment his Department… | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of levels of public awareness of where to find bathing water quality test results; and whether it plans to improve the (a)… | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) hospital admissions and (b) reported illnesses associated with exposure to (i) Vibrio, (ii) Campylobacter and (iii) Pseudomonas ae… | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many bathing waters were classified as poor in each of the last ten years, and what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact on domestic tourism tren… | Answered |
| 24 Jun 2025 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to collaborate with (a) VisitBritain, (b) local authorities and (c) tourism boards to measure the impact of water quality on destination att… | Answered |
| 09 Jun 2025 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in Blackpool South constituency on 9 June 2025. | Answered |
| 04 Jun 2025 | Department for Culture, Media and Sport | To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of implementing the Equality and Human Rights Commission's revised code of practice for services, public functions and a… | Answered |
E · Committees
No committee memberships recorded for this MP.
F · Expenses
Every business-cost claim reimbursed by IPSA in the current financial year, grouped by category. “Aggregated” rows are IPSA’s own year-end totals for cost types like payroll and rent that aren’t itemised claim-by-claim.
Category breakdown
| Category | Claims | Paid (£) | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office Costs | 179 | 36,025 | 11.7% |
| Accommodation | 14 | 23,049 | 7.5% |
| Staffing | 5 | 228,448 | 74.1% |
| MP Travel | 0 | 15,572 | 5.1% |
| Staff Travel | 0 | 4,998 | 1.6% |
| Dependant Travel | 0 | 102 | 0.0% |
Top itemised cost types
| Cost type | Category | Claims | Paid (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rent | Accommodation | 9 | 20,232 |
| Equipment - purchase | Office Costs | 33 | 9,434 |
| Rent | Office Costs | 8 | 7,968 |
| Stationery & printing | Office Costs | 54 | 7,531 |
| Advertising and contact cards | Office Costs | 53 | 3,155 |
| Pooled staffing services | Staffing | 1 | 3,000 |
| Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | Office Costs | 2 | 2,653 |
| Software & applications | Office Costs | 3 | 1,796 |
| Bought-in services | Staffing | 3 | 1,540 |
| Hotel - London | Accommodation | 2 | 1,489 |
| Postage & couriers | Office Costs | 6 | 1,187 |
| Council tax | Accommodation | 1 | 847 |
Most recent
| Date | Category | Description | Paid (£) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | CARTRIDGE SAVE [200011725-10547] | 651 | Paid |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Rent | 2024-25 [***] rent pro-rata | -147 | Paid |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Accommodation Rent | 2024-25 [***] rent pro-rata | -1,368 | Paid |
| 30 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | AMAZON.CO.UK [***] [200011725-9845] | 17 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | KINGSWOOD OFFICE SUPPL [200011725-5399] | 247 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Newspapers, journals, magazines | NWD LTD NATIONAL WORL [200011725-5398] | 9 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Postage & couriers | Banner March 2025 | 850 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 340 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Postage & couriers | Banner March 2025 | 212 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 155 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 87 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 83 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 48 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 31 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 26 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 20 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 20 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 20 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 6 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 4 | Paid |
G · Register of interests
Every financial interest declared by the MP, grouped under the Register’s official categories. Retracted entries are hidden but counted above.
5. Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK1 entry
16 Dec 2025
Name of donor: Riyadh Season
Address of donor: Airport Road, Qurtubah, Riyadh 13244, Saudi Arabia
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: One ticket including hospitality to a boxing show at Tottenham Stadium, in my capacity as Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Boxing, value £1,000
Date received: 15 November 2025
Date accepted: 15 November 2025
Donor status: company
(Registered 2 December 2025)
8. Miscellaneous2 entries
29 May 2024
Trustee of CWUHA, a children's humanitarian charity. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 23 May 2024)
29 May 2024
Member of the Blackpool Towns Board. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 3 May 2024
(Registered 24 May 2024)
H · Ward results
Most recent winning councillor in each ward — 17 wards, 34 councillor seats.
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Votes | Election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield | Jim Hobson | Labour Party | 371 | 04 May 2023 |
| Bloomfield | Mel Fenlon | Labour Party | 374 | 04 May 2023 |
| Brunswick | Laura Marshall | Labour Party | 717 | 04 May 2023 |
| Brunswick | Matthew Charles Thomas | Labour Party | 761 | 04 May 2023 |
| Claremont | Ivan John Taylor | Labour Party | 538 | 04 May 2023 |
| Claremont | Lynn Suzanne Williams | Labour Party | 504 | 04 May 2023 |
| Clifton | Alistair James Duncan Humphreys | Labour Party | 694 | 04 May 2023 |
| Clifton | Paula Ruth Burdess | Labour Party | 713 | 04 May 2023 |
| Greenlands | Dave Flanagan | Labour Party | 771 | 04 May 2023 |
| Greenlands | Julie Elizabeth Jones | Labour Party | 785 | 04 May 2023 |
| Hawes Side | Kim Elizabeth Critchley | Labour Party | 672 | 04 May 2023 |
| Hawes Side | Neal Timothy Brookes | Labour Party | 657 | 04 May 2023 |
| Highfield | Bradley Curtis Mitchell | Conservative and Unionist Party | 831 | 04 May 2023 |
| Highfield | Peter Hunter | Labour Party | 880 | 04 May 2023 |
| Layton | John Boughton | Labour Party | 678 | 04 May 2023 |
| Layton | Kathryn Mary Benson | Labour Party | 733 | 04 May 2023 |
| Marton | Sarah Smith | Labour Party | 814 | 04 May 2023 |
| Marton | Shaun Richard Brookes | Labour Party | 799 | 04 May 2023 |
| Park | Adrian Sydney Hoyle | Labour Party | 551 | 04 May 2023 |
| Park | Gillian Campbell | Labour Party | 616 | 04 May 2023 |
| Squires Gate | Carl Darren Mitchell | Conservative and Unionist Party | 854 | 04 May 2023 |
| Squires Gate | Gerard John Sean Walsh | Conservative and Unionist Party | 782 | 04 May 2023 |
| Stanley | Graham Baker | Conservative and Unionist Party | 796 | 04 May 2023 |
| Stanley | Jason Roberts | Conservative and Unionist Party | 772 | 04 May 2023 |
| Talbot | Jane Louise Hugo | Labour Party | 572 | 04 May 2023 |
| Talbot | Mark Peter Smith | Labour Party | 595 | 04 May 2023 |
| Tyldesley | Lisette Roe | Labour Party | 640 | 04 May 2023 |
| Tyldesley | Portia Webb | Labour Party | 599 | 04 May 2023 |
| Victoria | Fred Jackson | Labour Party | 468 | 04 May 2023 |
| Victoria | Pam Brookes | Labour Party | 490 | 04 May 2023 |
| Warbreck | Danny Scott | Conservative and Unionist Party | 600 | 04 May 2023 |
| Warbreck | Michele Scott | Conservative and Unionist Party | 589 | 04 May 2023 |
| Waterloo | Diane Marie Mitchell | Conservative and Unionist Party | 509 | 04 May 2023 |
| Waterloo | Simon James Cartmell | Labour Party | 564 | 04 May 2023 |
I · Demographics
| Indicator | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Population (2021 Census) | 109,585 | Electorate 77,460 (2024) |
| Median age | 42 | years |
| Degree-educated | 22.0% | level 4 or above |
| Ethnicity (White) | 94.0% | 2021 Census ethnic group |
| Owner-occupied | 54.4% | households |
| Private-rented | 34.9% | households |
| Social-rented | 10.7% | households |
| Employment rate | 51.2% | 16-64 in work |
J · Public spending
HMT publishes headline spending identifiable by region in PESA. Constituency-level capital allocations (Levelling-Up Fund, Towns Fund, UKSPF, transport capital, BEIS R&D) are published as separate departmental datasets. We are evaluating the cleanest reconciliation for a per-constituency view.