Member of Parliament

Dame Meg Hillier

Labour (Co-op) MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch

At a glanceDame Meg Hillier is a Labour (Co-op) MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, and has represented the seat for 21 years, 2 months. They have cast 444 votes in Commons divisions (77% attendance), tabled 160 written questions and registered 10 financial interests.

Votes cast444

Attendance77%

Voted Aye237

Voted No207

Voted with party100%

Rebellions0

Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Dame Meg Hillier did not vote in 131. 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.

Biographyfrom Parliament

Dame Meg Hillier is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, and has been an MP continually since 5 May 2005.

Current roles6 held

Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees Committee since 23 Jun 2026
Liaison Committee (Commons) Committee · Chair since 10 Dec 2024
Liaison Committee (Commons) Committee since 4 Dec 2024
Treasury Committee Committee · Chair since 9 Sep 2024
Hackney South and Shoreditch Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Labour Party since 5 May 2005

Voting recordlatest 15 shown

15 Jul 2026	Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots	Aye
15 Jul 2026	Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026	Aye
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19	No
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199	No
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3	No
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading	Aye
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading	No
8 Jul 2026	Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026	Aye
8 Jul 2026	Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026	Aye
8 Jul 2026	Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026	Aye
6 Jul 2026	National Security (State Threats) Bill: motion to agree to Lords Amendment 1	Aye
1 Jul 2026	Draft Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026	Aye
1 Jul 2026	Draft Employment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026	Aye
24 Jun 2026	Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (Credit Limit) Order 2026	Aye
24 Jun 2026	Draft Climate Change Act 2008 (International Aviation and International Shipping) Regulations 2026	Aye

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Voting alignmentmost and least similar MPs

Votes most like

Sean Woodcock Labour 100.0% · 424 of 424 shared votes
Sojan Joseph Labour 100.0% · 423 of 423 shared votes
Liz Twist Labour 100.0% · 418 of 418 shared votes
Douglas McAllister Labour 100.0% · 412 of 412 shared votes
Dr Lauren Sullivan Labour 100.0% · 407 of 407 shared votes

Votes least like

George Freeman Conservative 0.4% · 1 of 244 shared votes
Sir Mel Stride Conservative 0.4% · 1 of 244 shared votes
Chris Philp Conservative 0.7% · 2 of 282 shared votes
Sir Roger Gale Conservative 0.7% · 2 of 271 shared votes
Victoria Atkins Conservative 0.7% · 2 of 270 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.

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Visits outside the UK2

International visit to Canada between 13 June 2026 and 18 June 2026 (registered 3 Jul 2026)
International visit to Canada between 15 June 2025 and 19 June 2025 (registered 4 Jul 2025)

Miscellaneous8

Member of the National Executive Committee of the Co-operative Party, as the representative of the Co-op Parliamentary Group. This is an unpaid position. (registered 3 Jun 2026)
Director and Trustee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch). This is an unpaid role. (registered 31 Oct 2024)
Chair of the House Magazine Advisory Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 31 Oct 2024)
Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 Oct 2024)
Member of the Steering Group of the Institute for Government Academy. This is an unpaid role. (registered 9 May 2024)
Member of the Advisory Board of Reform, a cross party think tank. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 May 2024)
Trustee of the PCPF Pension scheme, which oversees the pension fund for members and former members of the UK House of Commons. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 May 2024)
Member of the London Regional Board of the Labour Party. (registered 26 Apr 2024)

Source: Register of Interests on parliament.uk.

Written questions160 tabled

Visas: Turkey 26 Mar 2026 · Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there has been a significant change in the number of applications for leave to remain under the ECAA Turkish Business person visa route in the last six months; and if she will make an assessme

Answer · 15 Apr 2026

Leave granted under the European Community Association Agreement (ECAA) allows people, largely Turkish nationals, to work or establish businesses in the UK.The Home Office does not publish information on ECAA applications and also does not publish informa...

Isabel Rose 23 Feb 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take steps to support Isabel Rose in Hong Kong.

Answer · 5 Mar 2026

I recognise how distressing it must be for Ms Rose, who has been unable to leave Hong Kong since 2024, and who has now been found guilty of the charges against her. We have provided consular assistance since Ms Rose's initial arrest, signposted her to loc...

Karim Ennarah 29 Jan 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information her Department holds on the status of Karim Ennarah's case.

Answer · 5 Feb 2026

The UK regularly raises human rights and civil society issues with the Egyptian authorities. We are aware of Mr Karim Ennarah's case, and our Ambassador in Egypt met Mr Ennarah and his wife in October last year. We are committed to supporting human rights...

Child Benefit 29 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of ending the two child benefit cap.

Answer · 3 Feb 2025

No estimates have been published. While we cannot currently commit to changing the two child policy, tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and improve the life chances of every child. This...

Employment and Support Allowance 28 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the fixed disregard rate for the New Style Employment and Support Allowance.

Answer · 3 Feb 2025

The current disregard was set in 1999. We have no current plans to change it, but I will be interested in any proposals my hon friend brings forward.

Buildings: Insurance 6 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to encourage insurance companies to insure buildings with a PAS 9980 assessment of (a) low and (b) medium tolerable that do not require remediat

Answer · 16 Jan 2025

Building owners are responsible for ensuring that buildings have appropriate buildings insurance in place.The government encourages insurance companies to provide suitable, fairly-priced insurance for all blocks of flats, whatever the conclusion of the Fi...

Tax Credits: Universal Credit 12 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential reasons why people receiving tax credits are not voluntarily migrating to Universal Credit.

Answer · 18 Mar 2024

It is the customers responsibility to choose whether to make an application for Universal Credit. There is no evidence to suggest any actions the Department has taken or should have taken are influencing that choice.

LGBT Veterans Independent Review 4 Dec 2023 · Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the LGBT Veterans Independent Review.

Answer · 7 Dec 2023

The Government has accepted in principle the all the LGBT Veterans Independent Review's recommendations. Whilst we agree with the intent behind them, there are a number we will deliver in a slightly different way to that described in the report. Many of t...

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Early day motions3 tabled

9 Jun 2016	150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF THE POSITION OF COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL	28 sig.
9 May 2006	DANCE TEACHERS' QUALIFICATIONS	27 sig.
2 Nov 2005	HOUSING FOR CHILDREN	105 sig.

Speeches in the chamber2,175 on record

9 Jul 2026 Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) for laying out her remarks so clearly—much better than I could have done—and to the Father of the House. Emotion rightly comes into this debate. We are not …

9 Jul 2026 Science, innovation and technology Committee

I am proud to represent Shoreditch, which has a lot of tech start-ups, so I welcome my hon. Friend’s report. Following on from the question from, and answer to, my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South (Gordon McKee), will she expand on…

9 Jul 2026 Timms Review: Interim Report

I thank the Minister for his work and look forward to welcoming him to Graeae theatre in my constituency, which is an exemplar of how to support disabled people to work and fully participate. In the discussions he has had so far, is he loo…

9 Jul 2026 NATO Summit

Further to the Foreign Secretary’s responses to questions about the defence, security and resilience bank and the multilateral defence mechanism, can she flesh out how the UK envisages those initiatives working more closely together, in pr…

6 Jul 2026 Payment Scheme

There have been occasions, in various roles I have had in this place, when we have looked at documents. The Government have a document destruction plan. At the Department for Work and Pensions, for example, a year after death one’s records…

6 Jul 2026 Payment Scheme

I was interested in the Minister’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham and Chislehurst (Clive Efford). He said that, notwithstanding the regulations and all the work to set out the rules and scope of the compensation scheme, the…

6 Jul 2026 Civil Service Pensions

This is a real mess, and I am pleased the Minister has acknowledged that, but there are a few practical things that could be delivered. There is no MP hotline, and there is a long and complicated process for MPs and their staff to go throu…

30 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan

I have had the opportunity to look over defence equipment plans for the last 13 years, and have repeatedly seen—a profiling from over a decade—huge optimism about savings and efficiencies, which is how plans get across the line of affordab…

29 Jun 2026 Topical Questions

Many young people and children on disability living allowance end up going on to PIP very readily. While it is of course important that people get support, what work is the Secretary of State doing to ensure that those young people are not…

23 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan

My right hon. Friend is right to highlight those challenges. Throughout the 10-year equipment plan, there was always a £14 billion deficit that never seemed to go away. It is great that we are seeing more investment, but could the Chancell…

22 Jun 2026 G7 Summit

I am glad that the Deputy Prime Minister reiterated support for Ukraine, but for that we need the defence investment plan. Could he explain what conversations the Prime Minister had at the G7 about defence investment, particularly through …

22 Jun 2026 Topical Questions

The Secretary of State is aware of the challenges caused by the drop in population in my constituency, which is resulting in the closure of some schools. What work is being done to ensure that if there is a need to create housing on those …

18 Jun 2026 Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

There are some discussions going on about how there should be oversight of Government’s acceptance of recommendations from public inquiries. My hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and Chiswick (Andy Slaughter) talked about the statutory…

18 Jun 2026 Infected Blood Compensation Scheme

My hon. Friend may be aware of the work that the National Audit Office has done, looking at different compensation schemes. Does he think that there are lessons that this and any future Government need to take on board when proposing a com…

18 Jun 2026 Business of the House

We all know how important housing is, and I applaud the Government’s ambition to build 1.5 million new homes, but we have seen Enfield, where we now have a Conservative-led council propped up by the Greens, decide to axe completely the Gov…