At a glanceBarry Gardiner is a Labour MP for Brent West, and has represented the seat for 29 years, 2 months. They have cast 345 votes in Commons divisions (60% attendance), tabled 702 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Barry Gardiner did not vote in 230. 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
- Environmental Audit Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Brent West Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 1 May 1997
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
100.0% · 301 of 301 shared votes
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
100.0% · 247 of 247 shared votes
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Naz Shah
Labour
100.0% · 228 of 228 shared votes
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Yasmin Qureshi
Labour
100.0% · 205 of 205 shared votes
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Wes Streeting
Labour
100.0% · 156 of 156 shared votes
Votes least like
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David Davis
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 164 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.6% · 1 of 165 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.0% · 2 of 210 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
1.3% · 3 of 223 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
1.5% · 3 of 206 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
- speaking and media appearances - MATV Channel (registered 1 Dec 2025)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments17
- Payment received on 29 June 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 6 Jul 2026)
- Payment received on 12 June 2026 - £1,200.00 (registered 15 Jun 2026)
- Payment received on 21 May 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 29 May 2026)
- Payment received on 18 May 2026 - £400.00 (registered 29 May 2026)
- Payment received on 27 April 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 11 May 2026)
- Payment received on 18 April 2026 - £950.00 (registered 11 May 2026)
- Payment received on 23 March 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 31 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 16 March 2026 - £645.00 (registered 31 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 25 February 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 4 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 13 February 2026 - £1,350.00 (registered 5 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 22 January 2026 - £1,000.00 (registered 27 Jan 2026)
- Payment received on 16 January 2026 - £650.00 (registered 27 Jan 2026)
- Payment received on 24 December 2025 - £1,000.00 (registered 6 Jan 2026)
- Payment received on 15 December 2025 - £1,000.00 (registered 6 Jan 2026)
- Payment received on 27 November 2025 - £1,000.00 (registered 1 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 20 November 2025 - £3,000.00 (registered 1 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 14 November 2025 - £1,250.00 (registered 1 Dec 2025)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to Seychelles between 27 May 2026 and 31 May 2026 (registered 15 Jun 2026)
- International visit to Indonesia between 24 March 2026 and 10 April 2026 (registered 17 Apr 2026)
Written questions
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will provide a full list of licensed special administration practitioners in the UK who would be eligible to be appointed to undertake the special administration of a water comp
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to list the meetings she and her ministers have had with the NFFO since 9 June 2025.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
Defra ministers meet with a range of stakeholders on a regular basis, including the NFFO to discuss matters relevant to commercial fisheries. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals are published quarterly in arrears on...
Marine Protected Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she will publish the response to the MMO's Stage 3 marine protected areas consultation.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) consulted last year on fisheries byelaws to restrict bottom trawling in a further 41 MPAs. These proposals covered 30,000 square kilometres or 13% of English waters. The MMO is carefully considering the very large ...
Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish baseline data for the extent of degraded ecosystems in terrestrial, inland waters and the marine environments in the UK in line with Target 2 of the Global Biodiver
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
The Government publishes a wide range of data relevant to ecosystem condition and restoration across terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. In the marine environment, assessments of progress towards Good Environmental Status are publicly availab...
Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress she has made in delivering Target 2 of the Global Biodiversity framework.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
The UK’s 7th National Report, published in February 2026, reaffirms the UK’s commitment to achieving all 23 targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework at home, and shows that the UK has solid foundations in place and meaningful progress being made acros...
Thames Water: Insolvency
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to UIN 5852, what advice her department has received from the ONS regarding the implications for ONS classification if Thames Water was taken into Special Administration.
Answer · 15 Jun 2026
HM Treasury has not asked for, nor received, any advice from the ONS regarding the implications for ONS classification if Thames Water was taken into Special Administration.
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she agrees with Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission.
Answer · 16 Jun 2026
Our White Paper commits to taking forward Recommendation 46 of the IWC. We will make it easier for a company’s owners to change their ownership model, by ensuring the new regulator has a transparent process to assess whether an ownership change should go ...
Water Companies: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the inclusion of Recommendation 46 of the Independent Water Commission in full in the Water White Paper.
Answer · 16 Jun 2026
Our White Paper commits to taking forward Recommendation 46 of the IWC. We will make it easier for a company’s owners to change their ownership model, by ensuring the new regulator has a transparent process to assess whether an ownership change should go ...
Early day motions
| 9 Mar 2026 | Reforming National Parks and National Landscapes | 13 sig. |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Political prisoners in Bangladesh | 13 sig. |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Birth anniversary of Basaveshwara | 2 sig. |
| 7 Apr 2025 | Securing habitat for endangered swifts and other cavity nesting birds | 78 sig. |
| 30 Apr 2024 | Price cap on baby milk formula | 29 sig. |
| 5 Jun 2023 | Support for scrappage schemes to tackle air pollution | 6 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
9 Jul 2026 Business of the House
We know how much land there is in the UK, and we know the extent of our inland waters and seas, so we can know how much we have to do to protect them, as we are required to do by target 3 of the global biodiversity framework. Target 2 of t…
2 Jul 2026 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform: Managing Agents
For 28 of the 29 years that I have been in Parliament, I have campaigned for leasehold reform. I was instrumental in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 and on the Bill Committee during the passage of the 2024 Act. I welcome the S…
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
Okay. I will be very brief, and I will not give way. I really enjoyed it when the shadow Minister was on the Environmental Audit Committee with us. He made a very valuable contribution then, but he lost his way when he went over to the …
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
I just thought I had a wee bit of time.
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
Can I give way in a winding-up speech?
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
It has been a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Efford. Thank you for giving me the nod earlier to curtail my remarks. It only goes to prove that we do not need to say everything: often, we think—at least I do—that we need to get…
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
I give my condolences to the Hollis family for the tragedy they have suffered. My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the electrification of the bus system must go further and faster, but it is not just a London problem, as he knows: it a…
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
How did I know that my right hon. Friend would be introducing that subject? I excised it from my speech because I knew he would. He is absolutely right, and he will have seen the assessment that came out just 10 days ago, which said everyt…
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and he is absolutely right. The heat dome that we have been experiencing interacts with pollution and gives us extra ozone and causes huge health problems. I do not know—perhaps the Minister can tel…
2 Jul 2026 Air Pollution
I beg to move, That this House has considered Government plans to tackle air pollution. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford. There is no safe level of air pollution. I will say that again: there is no safe level…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
My hon. Friend is making a good point. Does he accept that the way that the previous Government changed the dates for the ZEV mandate may have had something to do with people’s confidence in being able to support an electric vehicle?
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
Madam Deputy Speaker, you will be delighted to hear that I am just about to throw away 22 pages of my 23-page speech in order to allow other Members to get in. I want to quote the Climate Minister—or, rather, I want to misquote her: “Tw…
24 Jun 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles)
Could the Minister just remind us to which party the Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015 belonged?
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
If the hon. Member wants to know the specifics of how to do that, they get a jar of liquid honey and squeeze it up the tree. You then have to follow it up with your tongue. I do not recommend that for anywhere near the Whips Office.
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
My hon. Friend speaks knowledgeably about the threats to biodiversity in Sumatra in particular. It is not just the sixth largest island in the world; it also has 1,300 different tree species. Sumatra’s forest cover has been staggeringly de…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
My hon. Friend has been very generous in taking interventions. On the animals that had diseases—she is right, it was an affecting sight that depressed us all; it is great that the islands are being built—is she aware that at a recent lectu…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Does she agree that, as part of that consultation, many of us would like the Government to consider that this should not just be a matter of legality, but of actual deforestation? She will know of c…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
This is an essential point. My hon. Friend will remember the words of Pak Ja Martin, who was in charge of the project that we went to see. He said, “You can’t talk conservation to people who are hungry.” Therefore, local indigenous people,…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
My hon. Friend is talking about peatlands; she will know that Indonesia had a huge, deep burn of its peatlands in 2019, with 31,000 sq km of land burned. In the UK, when we had a terrible peatland fire on Saddleworth moor in 2018, just the…
16 Jun 2026 Thames Water
Will the Secretary of State confirm that, in the event of a special administration regime, any compensation would be based on appropriate value as set out in the case of Lithgow v. the UK, not on regulated capital value, as suggested by th…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Special Envoy for Forestry · No Department 28 Jun 2007 – 15 Sep 2008
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs) · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5 May 2006 – 28 Jun 2007
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Trade and Industry) (Delivery and Efficiency) · Department of Trade and Industry 10 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Northern Ireland Office) · Northern Ireland Office 2 Apr 2004 – 10 May 2005
Opposition posts
- Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade · Department for Business and Trade 14 Jul 2016 – 6 Apr 2020
- Shadow Minister (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Energy and Climate Change) · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 14 Jul 2016 – 6 Apr 2020
- Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change · Department of Energy and Climate Change 27 Jun 2016 – 14 Jul 2016
- Shadow Minister (Energy and Climate Change) · Department of Energy and Climate Change 18 Sep 2015 – 27 Jun 2016
- Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 7 Oct 2013 – 18 Sep 2015
Committee memberships
- Energy Security and Net Zero Committee 12 Jun 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research 18 Jan 2023 – 30 May 2024
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee 8 Jun 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Environmental Audit Committee 8 Jun 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill 15 May 2024 – 22 May 2024
- Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill 17 Apr 2024 – 24 Apr 2024
- Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill 22 Feb 2024 – 28 Feb 2024
- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill 10 Jan 2024 – 30 Jan 2024
- Public Accounts Committee 21 Sep 2020 – 8 Feb 2022
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee 20 Dec 2010 – 4 Nov 2013
- Energy and Climate Change Committee 2 Nov 2010 – 4 Nov 2013
- Crossrail Bill 14 Nov 2007 – 18 Nov 2007
- Consolidation etc. Bills (Joint Committee) 12 Dec 2001 – 5 May 2005
- Public Accounts Committee 10 Jun 1999 – 16 Oct 2002
- Procedure Committee 31 Jul 1997 – 25 Jan 2000
Previous seats
- Brent North · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
- Brent North · Elected 3 times 1 May 1997 – 6 May 2010
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 4046
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Barry Gardiner, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Barry Gardiner?
Barry Gardiner is a Member of Parliament representing Brent West in the House of Commons. See Barry Gardiner's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Barry Gardiner represent?
Barry Gardiner sits as Labour. See Barry Gardiner's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Barry Gardiner represent?
Barry Gardiner is the Member of Parliament for Brent West. See Barry Gardiner's official Parliament profile.
How long has Barry Gardiner been an MP?
Barry Gardiner has served in the House of Commons for 29 years, 2 months. See Barry Gardiner's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Barry Gardiner?
Barry Gardiner has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Barry Gardiner's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.