Worsley & Eccles / data
Michael Wheeler · Labour Party · sitting since 04 Jul 2024 · every division, speech and committee appearance.
Since election
660days
from 04 Jul 2024
Divisions
462
of 504 possible
Attendance
92%
42 absent / paired
Whip alignment
100%
vs party majority
Speeches
71
32 debates
Written Qs
100
97 answered
Committees
3
memberships
Expenses
£200k paid
FY 2024–2025 · 133 claims
Interests
2
2 categories
A · Overview
Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted — engagement only, not direction.
| Issue | Volume | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 90 | |
| Taxation | 85 | |
| Employment | 48 | |
| Crime & Policing | 46 | |
| Education | 36 | |
| Welfare and Benefits | 30 | |
| Housing | 24 | |
| Defence and Foreign Affairs | 22 |
Speech topics
Words spoken, by topic. Source: Hansard.
| Topic | Debates | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 1 | — |
| Health | 5 | 2,419 |
| Environment | 2 | 1,518 |
| Culture Community | 1 | 1,495 |
| Social Care | 3 | 1,398 |
| Economy Jobs | 10 | 1,364 |
| Defence | 3 | 680 |
| Labour Market | 6 | 589 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 14Vote on whether to strengthen the advertising ban in the Assisted Dying Bill by requiring that any advertising restrictions also cover situa… | Free vote | Aye |
| 03 Dec 2024 | Elections (proportional representation): Ten Minute Rule Motion A vote on whether to allow a Bill to be introduced that would replace the current first-past-the-post voting system with proportional repres… | Free vote | No |
C · Speeches
| Date | Contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr 2026 | Procedure Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1526)To press a little further, I accept that those might be part of it, but we are looking at a comparison over time. In this Session, we saw an uptick in WPQs as we got into it, rathe… | 121 |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Procedure Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1526)You both alluded to the issue and potential reasons for it, but we have obviously seen a significant increase in the total number of WPQs submitted in this parliamentary Session co… | 51 |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Topical QuestionsT3. I welcome the upcoming drop next week in the energy price cap, which I know will help my constituents. With the Government’s focus on the cost of living, we are all concerned t… EnergyCost Of LivingEconomy Jobs | 69 |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Cost of Living: Families9. What fiscal steps she has taken to help reduce the cost of living for families. Cost Of LivingHousingFiscal Policy | 16 |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Cost of Living: FamiliesWhile cost of living pressures are affecting people across my constituency of Worsley and Eccles, young families face a perfect storm. Whether it is housing costs, expensive childc… Cost Of LivingHousingFiscal Policy | 82 |
| 23 Feb 2026 | Topical QuestionsIn my constituency of Worsley and Eccles, residents of Peel Green and the surrounding area, including the enthusiastic pupils of Salford City academy, are looking to get their hand… HousingLocal GovernmentEconomy Jobs | 56 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingI beg to move, That this House has considered non-compliance animal testing incidents in laboratories. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. The uncomfortable… HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 210 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingI thank my hon. Friend for another valuable intervention. I agree with her. The Government’s strategy contains a range of positive measures, such as increasing funding for human-sp… HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 266 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingI think it will come as no surprise to my hon. Friend that I do agree with him, and I will be making that very call. We are in a good place when it comes to the development of alte… HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 55 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention, and of course I agree. ASRU is tasked with licensing animal experiments and, importantly, ensuring compliance with the Animals (Scienti… HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 179 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingOf course. It will surprise my hon. Friend not at all that I agree. I will come to the wider context and wider solutions, but at this time, although we can look to improve the situ… HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 308 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Animal TestingI of course agree, and I have some information that will illustrate the point and the importance of inspections. In 2024, just 68 establishments were audited across Great Britain. … HealthEnvironmentCulture Community | 477 |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Procedure Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 933)I want to dig a little deeper on that and separate the different types of arm’s length bodies and regulators. I appreciate that this will not have been done, but how easy or diffic… | 64 |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Procedure Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 933)I am not asking that. | 5 |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Procedure Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 933)Do you think that all the decisions that attract ministerial responsibility, including those of arm’s length bodies or regulators, should be exempt from the sub judice resolution s… | 42 |
D · Written questions
Top departments
| Department | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department for Education | 19 | 19.0% |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 19 | 19.0% |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 10 | 10.0% |
| Department for Work and Pensions | 9 | 9.0% |
| Department for Business and Trade | 8 | 8.0% |
| Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | 8 | 8.0% |
| Home Office | 6 | 6.0% |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 5 | 5.0% |
Most recent
| Date | Department | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will meet with the UK plastics recycling industry to discuss the exclusion of UK recyclate from the End of Life Vehicles regulations. | Pending |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of excluding UK recyclate from the Single Use Plastics Directive on (a) the environment and (b) the plastics indus… | Pending |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of excluding UK recyclate from the End of Life Vehicles regulations on (a) the environment and (b) the plastics in… | Pending |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2026 to Question 115765, on NHS: Redundancy Pay, whether he will consider giving the NHS Staff Council a mandate to negotiate NHS partial retiremen… | Answered |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the data protection practices of overseas third-party age-verification providers operating under the Online Saf… | Answered |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has considered the potential merits of creating a dedicated disability rights enforcement body. | Answered |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Women and Equalities | To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the avenues available to disabled persons to (a) access and (b) enforce their rights as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. | Answered |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan were assessed as owed homelessness duty, broken down into (i) prevention duty, (ii) relief duty and (iii) main dut… | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households were living in temporary accommodation in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan in each year since 2020. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of dwellings in the private rented sector in (a) Salford and (b) Wigan in each year since 2020. | Answered |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has assessed the potential merits of introducing measures outside of the Pension Schemes Bill to protect the real terms value of pre-1997 defined benefit pension sc… | Answered |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the NHS Staff Council a mandate to negotiate NHS partial retirement and statutory redundancy payments… | Answered |
| 23 Feb 2026 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2026 to Question 110592, whether his Department has made an estimate of the earliest date nerandomilist could become available to patients after… | Answered |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to ensure that communities are consulted on the use of Pride in Place funding in Worsley and Eccles constituency. | Answered |
| 03 Feb 2026 | Department of Health and Social Care | To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has an estimate of the earliest possible date Jascayd (nerandomilast) could be available to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients. | Answered |
E · Committees
| Committee | Role | House | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee of PrivilegesSelect | Member | Commons | 03 Mar 2025 | present |
| Committee on StandardsSelect | Member | Commons | 03 Mar 2025 | present |
| Procedure CommitteeSelect | Member | Commons | 04 Nov 2024 | present |
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 | 101 | 29,974 | 15.0% |
| Accommodation | 23 | 16,313 | 8.2% |
| Staffing | 4 | 146,319 | 73.2% |
| MP Travel | 0 | 5,238 | 2.6% |
| Staff Travel | 0 | 1,921 | 1.0% |
Top itemised cost types
| Cost type | Category | Claims | Paid (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rent | Office Costs | 9 | 13,363 |
| Rent | Accommodation | 7 | 11,802 |
| Equipment - purchase | Office Costs | 15 | 5,014 |
| Stationery & printing | Office Costs | 51 | 4,853 |
| Hotel - London | Accommodation | 10 | 3,165 |
| Pooled staffing services | Staffing | 1 | 3,000 |
| Equipment - hire | Office Costs | 3 | 2,806 |
| Software & applications | Office Costs | 2 | 1,618 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Office Costs | 15 | 1,447 |
| Training - staff | Staffing | 2 | 1,150 |
| Council tax | Accommodation | 2 | 858 |
| Bought-in services | Staffing | 1 | 800 |
Most recent
| Date | Category | Description | Paid (£) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 205 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 167 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 167 | Paid |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Accommodation Rent | Rent | 2,300 | Paid |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Accommodation Rent | 2024-25 [***] rent pro-rata | -1,998 | Paid |
| 28 Mar 2025 | Staffing Bought-in services | Administrative services | 800 | Paid |
| 26 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Internet | 80 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | 3,381 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - hire | Printer, photocopier & scanner | 264 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline | 51 | Paid |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | 104 | Paid |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | AMAZON [***] [200011725-7206] | 23 | Paid |
| 16 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | 169 | Paid |
| 16 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | 31 | Paid |
| 16 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment | 30 | 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.
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1 entry
23 Oct 2025
Name of donor: World Rugby Ltd
Address of donor: Cassidy House, Station Road, Chester CH1 3DW
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Tickets for me and one guest to Australia vs Samoa and Scotland vs Wales with hospitality at the Salford Community Stadium as part of the Women's Rugby World Cup, value £386.40
Date received: 23 August 2025
Date accepted: 23 August 2025
Donor status: company, registration 09199533
(Registered 1 October 2025)
8. Miscellaneous1 entry
16 Aug 2024
Labour Party Staff Superannuation Scheme trustee. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest ended: 31 July 2024
(Registered 30 July 2024; updated 12 December 2025)
H · Ward results
Most recent winning councillor in each ward — 10 wards, 10 councillor seats.
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Votes | Election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astley | Barry John Taylor | Labour Party | 1,792 | 02 May 2024 |
| Barton Winton | Jacqui Fahy | Labour Party | 1,633 | 02 May 2024 |
| Boothstown Ellenbrook | Bob Clarke | Conservative and Unionist Party | 2,339 | 02 May 2024 |
| Cadishead Lower Irlam | Lewis Eric Nelson | Labour Party | 2,024 | 02 May 2024 |
| Eccles | Sharmina August | Labour Party | 2,121 | 02 May 2024 |
| Higher Irlam Peel Green | Tracy Kelly | Labour Party | 1,431 | 02 May 2024 |
| Leigh South | Barbara Caren | Labour Party | 2,389 | 04 Jul 2024 |
| Swinton Wardley | Jim Dawson | Labour Party | 1,818 | 02 May 2024 |
| Tyldesley Mosley Common | James Anthony Fish | Independent Network | 1,538 | 02 May 2024 |
| Worsley Westwood Park | James Prady | Labour Party | 1,556 | 02 May 2024 |
I · Demographics
| Indicator | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Population (2021 Census) | 110,351 | Electorate 78,643 (2024) |
| Median age | 39 | years |
| Degree-educated | 31.3% | level 4 or above |
| Ethnicity (White) | 89.1% | 2021 Census ethnic group |
| Owner-occupied | 63.9% | households |
| Private-rented | 16.3% | households |
| Social-rented | 19.6% | households |
| Employment rate | 59.8% | 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.