At a glanceLiam Byrne is a Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North, and has represented the seat for 22 years. They have cast 363 votes in Commons divisions (63% attendance), tabled 854 written questions and registered 7 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Liam Byrne did not vote in 212. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
Current roles
- Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees Committee since 23 Jun 2026
- Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements Committee since 11 Jun 2025
- Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls Committee · Chair since 5 Mar 2025
- Liaison Committee (Commons) Committee since 4 Dec 2024
- National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) Committee since 2 Dec 2024
- Business and Trade Committee Committee · Chair since 11 Sep 2024
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 15 Jul 2004
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 348 of 348 shared votes
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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 346 of 346 shared votes
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Justin Madders
Labour
100.0% · 346 of 346 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 343 of 343 shared votes
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Lola McEvoy
Labour
100.0% · 336 of 336 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 219 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 219 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 217 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.0% · 2 of 196 shared votes
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David Davis
Conservative
1.1% · 2 of 186 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Employment and earnings1
- Writing a book - Head of Zeus – UK
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments4
- Payment received on 02 July 2026 - £820.00 (registered 7 Jul 2026)
- Payment received on 31 March 2026 - £4,100.00 (registered 22 Apr 2026)
- Payment received on 13 January 2026 - £4,100.00 (registered 3 Feb 2026)
- Payment received on 01 June 2025 - £4,100.00 (registered 17 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to China between 24 May 2026 and 30 May 2026 (registered 9 Jun 2026)
- International visit to South Korea between 13 April 2026 and 17 April 2026 (registered 7 May 2026)
Written questions
Public Transport: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of public transport connectivity on levels of regional inequality in the West Midlands.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Trams: Birmingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the next spending review will include provision for completing the East Birmingham tram extension.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Minerals: Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish the full text of each of the UK’s critical minerals memoranda of understanding, dialogues, and other bilateral agreements, including wider initiatives such as supply chain resilience
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
A full list of the UK’s agreements, dialogues and memoranda of understanding on critical minerals is available on the webpage for the Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls (published 23 June 2026). Where appropria...
High Speed Two: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total cost to the public purse has been of HS2 Ltd holding the Washwood Heath RSMD site since acquisition.
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
BBV has been working on the Washwood Heath Depot site since September 2020. The contract for the design and construction of the Washwood Heath Depot and Network Integrated Control Centre was awarded on 30th April 2026 to the TWA Joint Venture. Total costs...
High Speed Two: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that could be supported on non-operational land at the HS2 Washwood Heath site.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
It is envisaged that around 1,000 jobs will be created on the commercial development site to the south of the depot.
High Speed Two: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when HS2 Ltd plans to publish its final land specification for the Washwood Heath RSMD site.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
Subject to Taylor Woodrow-Aureos (depot D&B contractor) confirmation, it is currently proposed that an updated Schedule 17 application (including final plans) will be submitted Q2/Q3 of 2027.
High Speed Two: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many acres of land at the Washwood Heath RSMD site HS2 Ltd requires for operational purposes for (a) the Network Control Centre and (b) the rolling stock maintenance depot.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
a) Approximately 4 acresb) Approximately 76 acres
High Speed Two: Land
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total acreage of land held by HS2 Ltd at the Washwood Heath RSMD site is; and how many acres of that land are required for operational purposes.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
The total area of the Washwood Heath site (inc. future commercial development land, green corridor, internal access roads, etc.) is 150 acres, of which approximately 80 acres are for operational purposes.
Early day motions
| 9 Mar 2023 | The Bridgetown Agenda for global development finance | 14 sig. |
| 3 Sep 2020 | West Midlands Gigafactory | 8 sig. |
| 19 Mar 2019 | THE LIVING WAGE AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES | 25 sig. |
| 29 Jun 2017 | EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION | 2 sig. |
| 23 Nov 2015 | GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS | 32 sig. |
| 26 Oct 2015 | COMPASSION AND OFFICIAL BRITISH VALUES | 22 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 UK-Switzerland Enhanced Free Trade Agreement
I congratulate the Minister on deal No. 6. A very warm thanks, on behalf of the Committee, to the hard-working officials in the Department for Business and Trade and to James Squire and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office team…
9 Jul 2026 NATO Summit
I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement. The alliance is growing stronger by the week, but it is clear now that national security rests on economic security. Can she update the House on what conversations she had about how th…
6 Jul 2026 Foreign Interference in UK Politics
I welcome much of the Minister’s statement, but I am disappointed that there is not an outright ban on cryptocurrency donations. I cannot foresee us ever arriving at a place where the regulation is robust enough that it would be safe for c…
2 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I know the Secretary of State will join me in wishing the United States a very happy 250th birthday on Saturday. It was John Pym and Members of this House four centuries ago who helped found the American economy, and I know the whole House…
17 Jun 2026 Steel Tariffs
I am grateful for this urgent question. Today, I am publishing the Committee’s correspondence with Ministers after the roundtable we held with steel producers, expressing a very high degree of alarm that these measures were not in the righ…
21 May 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point that I am about to come on to. My point, I suppose, is that there is a case for this Bill. I think it is actually quite important, and the powers that it confers are also important, but if we are…
21 May 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
I will be very quick, because I know that colleagues are keen to get in. I am going to speak against the amendment and in support of the Bill for the simple reason that a speech such as the one we have just heard from the shadow Minister m…
21 May 2026 Costs for Motorists
Thank you for facilitating the urgent question, Mr Speaker. I welcome the announcements on fuel duty, but I did not hear the Chief Secretary say anything about remedies for the new costs on drivers of electric vehicles. Those new costs, i…
21 May 2026 Topical Questions
The Committee is meeting steel makers later today and will supply the Government with its advice from that, but I want to raise the automotive sector. We are not going to double automotive production in the way the Secretary of State wants…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
I can advance only my own analysis of what will be needed. Indeed, it is part of a wider Business and Trade Committee inquiry, which will produce a report in a couple of weeks, on how we transform the investment environment. The reality is…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
I am grateful for that intervention, because the hon. Lady made my second point for me. It is just not good enough to will the ends and not the means. The reality is that, after all the heroic work of the former Conservative Chancellor, bu…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
I rise to say a couple of things in support of the Minister, who not only has done a heroic job in laying out the intellectual architecture for the legislation before he got to the House, but is so expertly steering it through the House. I…
22 Apr 2026 Pension Schemes Bill
I congratulate my hon. Friend on stewarding the Bill with such expertise, and I very much hope that the cultural change that he is hoping for sticks and that we do not just get an unwinding of the repatriation of UK investment. A necessar…
12 Mar 2026 Topical Questions
The Select Committee recently flagged that small businesses in our country now face pandemic-level pressures. In April, standing charges for energy are set to rise by 60%, with no price cap protection. Now, soaring oil and gas prices threa…
4 Mar 2026 Department for Business and Trade
This is the most extraordinary country on earth. It is the home of the industrial revolution, and the home of the scientific revolution. It is a country with an abundance of ideas, and also a place that is blessed with trillions of pounds …
4 Mar 2026 Department for Business and Trade
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The chief executive of Fujitsu came before the Committee to say that Fujitsu did indeed have a moral obligation to make a contribution. That is why we were so surprised when earlier this year, when we a…
4 Mar 2026 Department for Business and Trade
At the end of a long day, let me express my gratitude to the Backbench Business Committee for providing us with this time to debate the supplementary estimates and the priorities of the Department for Business and Trade. I rise to open …
3 Mar 2026 Spring Forecast
The plan that the Chancellor has set out this afternoon shows that inflation, debt and bills are down, and that headroom, growth and living standards are up. That is testament to a plan for stability that is working, but that stability wou…
2 Mar 2026 Representation of the People Bill
I, too, want to welcome the Bill; I think it has a lot of good measures. However, whether it becomes the watershed Bill that I think it could be depends on whether much of the debate we have heard tonight gets translated into successful am…
2 Mar 2026 Representation of the People Bill
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I believe that I heard the hon. Gentleman accuse a political party in the Chamber of a “criminal abuse of democracy”. Did I hear that correctly? Is that remark in order, or does the hon. Gentleman…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 6 Jun 2009 – 6 May 2010
- Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster · Cabinet Office 3 Oct 2008 – 5 Jun 2009
- Minister of State (Regional Affairs) (West Midlands) · Regional Affairs 29 Jun 2007 – 6 Oct 2008
- Minister of State (HM Treasury) (also in the Home Office) · HM Treasury 25 Jan 2008 – 3 Oct 2008
- Minister of State (Home Office) (Borders and Immigration) · Home Office 28 Jun 2007 – 3 Oct 2008
- Minister of State (Home Office) (Immigration and Asylum) · Home Office 9 May 2007 – 28 Jun 2007
- Minister of State (Home Office) (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality) · Home Office 22 May 2006 – 8 May 2007
- Minister of State (Home Office) · Home Office 5 May 2006 – 22 May 2006
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health) (Care Services) · Department of Health 10 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Opposition posts
- Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Digital Economy) · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 17 Jul 2017 – 10 Apr 2020
- Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 7 Oct 2013 – 12 Sep 2015
- Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions · Department for Work and Pensions 20 Jan 2011 – 7 Oct 2013
- Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office) · Cabinet Office 8 Oct 2010 – 20 Jan 2011
- Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 12 May 2010 – 8 Oct 2010
Committee memberships
- National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) 15 Jan 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government 19 Dec 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Business and Trade Sub-Committee on National Security and Investment · Chair 18 Oct 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Liaison Committee (Commons) 18 Oct 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Business and Trade Committee · Chair 18 Oct 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements 18 Oct 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill 1 May 2024 – 8 May 2024
- Foreign Affairs Committee 5 Jan 2022 – 28 Nov 2023
- Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 19 Oct 2022 – 29 Nov 2022
- Committees on Arms Export Controls 25 Jan 2022 – 27 Nov 2022
- International Trade Committee 31 Oct 2016 – 3 May 2017
- European Scrutiny Committee 22 Feb 2005 – 11 Apr 2005
Previous seats
- Birmingham, Hodge Hill · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
- Birmingham, Hodge Hill · Elected 2 times 15 Jul 2004 – 6 May 2010
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 6953
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Liam Byrne, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Liam Byrne?
Liam Byrne is a Member of Parliament representing Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in the House of Commons. See Liam Byrne's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Liam Byrne represent?
Liam Byrne sits as Labour. See Liam Byrne's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Liam Byrne represent?
Liam Byrne is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North. See Liam Byrne's official Parliament profile.
How long has Liam Byrne been an MP?
Liam Byrne has served in the House of Commons for 22 years. See Liam Byrne's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Liam Byrne?
Liam Byrne has 7 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Liam Byrne's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.