Toby Perkins.

Chesterfield's MP is most visible right now as Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, where he has launched inquiries into whether the Treasury is blocking climate and nature progress, and into PFAS "forever chemicals" linked to cancer risks in firefighters. He has twice broken from his party in recent months — voting against decriminalising abortion for women at any gestation in June, and supporting a devolution amendment to the Assisted Dying Bill, where he backs greater access than the Labour average.

On the floor of the Commons, Perkins votes with Labour 99.5% of the time and participated in 77% of recorded votes — slightly below the Commons average. His speeches cluster around the economy and jobs, environment, energy, and local government, consistent with a MP who uses his committee chair to pursue related issues beyond the chamber. He scores higher than his party on energy security and assisted dying access, and lower on welfare expansion and civil liberties votes.

Local news coverage over the past 90 days is thin: six articles, with meaningful MP visibility only on the environmental and health stories tied to his committee work. Three crime-related local articles returned a near-zero MP score, suggesting he was largely absent from those conversations. His speech record is substantial — 213 contributions across 102 debates — and his last contribution was 13 July 2026. Committee membership data is current; voting and news data cover the period available through mid-2026.