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Derby North

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Apr 2026

A safe Lab seat, won with 46% of the vote in 2024. Centred on Derby. Population 107,350.

Atkinson's most notable recent parliamentary activity has been on assisted dying. In June 2025, she broke with Labour's majority position on four separate votes during the Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, backing amendments designed to tighten safeguards -- specifically to prevent voluntary stopping of eating and drinking from being used to meet eligibility criteria -- while the Labour majority opposed them. She also voted against the party on a procedural motion to sit in private. Beyond Westminster, she has attracted positive local coverage for securing Prime Minister Starmer's backing at PMQs for the £9 billion "Team Derby" regeneration partnership, and for lobbying on taxi licensing loopholes that constituents raised directly with her.

Voting at 81% -- broadly in line with the Commons average -- she is a 96.7% party-line voter overall, making her assisted dying rebellions the clearest point of independent judgment. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights and progressive taxation but notably low scores on pro-parliamentary scrutiny (10%) and pro-lords-scrutiny (0%), reflecting consistent support for government positions in Lords-versus-Commons ping-pong. She deviates from her Labour peers most significantly on end-of-life autonomy and assisted dying safeguards, where she scores around 20 percentage points above the party average, and on pension protection, where she scores 35 points below. Her 247 contributions span economy, local government, social care, and education.

393
Commons votes
This parliament
£26k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
71.9k
Electorate
2024 GE

Lab regained this seat from Con — last held it in 2017.

Current Member of Parliament

Catherine Atkinson

Catherine Atkinson

Labour Party

Catherine Atkinson is the Labour MP for Derby North, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Notable Votes

A motion was proposed to hold the parliamentary session in private (behind closed doors), excluding the public and press. This was overwhelmingly rejected, with only one MP voting in favour.

MP voted YesAgainst party majorityLikely whipped

Vote on whether to prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under the assisted dying bill solely because they have chosen to stop eating and drinking. The amendment would close a potential loophole where a person who is not otherwise terminally ill could meet the bill's eligibility criteria by voluntarily starving themselves.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

MPs voted on the Third Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — the final Commons vote on whether to pass the assisted dying legislation in its amended form. Passing Third Reading sends the Bill to the House of Lords.

MP voted NoAgainst party majority

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Voting at a Glance

A safe Lab seat, won with 46% of the vote in 2024. Centred on Derby. Population 107,350.

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Atkinson’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.409 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Atkinson has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
83
Economy
77
Employment
50
Crime & Policing
34
Education
33
Welfare and Benefits
30
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Motion to sit in private11 Jul 2025
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 2420 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading20 Jun 2025 · free vote
No
§ 08The local picture.5 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
Chaddesden EastJerry Pearce966Conserva
Chaddesden EastJohn Wright806Conserva
Chaddesden WestKathy Kozlowski680Labour P
Chaddesden WestMartin James Rawson732Labour P
LittleoverAjit Singh Atwal1,950Liberal
LittleoverEmily Claire Lonsdale1,929Liberal
LittleoverLucy Care2,373Liberal
Mackworth New ZealandGaurav Pandey1,231Conserva
Mackworth New ZealandJohn Whitby1,190Labour P
Mackworth New ZealandNdukwe Onuoha1,168Labour P
MickleoverAlison Joyce Holmes2,274Conserva
MickleoverMatthew Edward Holmes2,250Conserva
Population (2021 Census)
107,350
Electorate 71,879 · 2024 register
Median income
£26,100
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
22.8%
England average 20.0%
Schools
53
28 primary · 7 secondary
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