At a glanceJohn Healey is a Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, and has represented the seat for 29 years, 2 months. They currently serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer. They have cast 192 votes in Commons divisions (33% attendance), tabled 5,135 written questions and registered 5 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; John Healey did not vote in 383. 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
- Chancellor of the Exchequer Government post · HM Treasury since 20 Jul 2026
- Rawmarsh and Conisbrough 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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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 192 of 192 shared votes
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 190 of 190 shared votes
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Matt Turmaine
Labour
100.0% · 187 of 187 shared votes
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Adam Thompson
Labour
100.0% · 187 of 187 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 186 of 186 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 104 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 67 shared votes
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Alan Mak
Conservative
0.8% · 1 of 129 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.9% · 1 of 117 shared votes
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Sir James Cleverly
Conservative
0.9% · 1 of 114 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.
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Property in Hove (registered 7 May 2025)
Miscellaneous3
- Executive Committee Member of the British American Parliamentary Group. This is an unpaid role. (registered 4 Jan 2024)
- Chair of Rotherham 9th Scouts Group. This is an unpaid role. (registered 11 Apr 2023)
- Member of Goldthorpe Towns Fund Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 11 Apr 2023)
Family members employed1
- Jackie Bate employed
Written questions
Multi-role Support Ships: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, for how
Answer · 24 May 2024
Funding for the concept phase of Multi Role Support Ship (MRSS) has been approved by HM Treasury. I can confirm that the platform will be procured through the new Integrated Procurement Model (IPM), which I recently announced. As such, the next step in th...
Multi-role Support Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, where th
Answer · 24 May 2024
As announced by the Secretary of State, it is intended that the Multi Role Support Ships will be built in the UK.
Multi-role Support Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, what the
Answer · 24 May 2024
Funding for the concept phase of Multi Role Support Ship (MRSS) has been approved by HM Treasury. I can confirm that the platform will be procured through the new Integrated Procurement Model (IPM), which I recently announced. As such, the next step in th...
Multi-role Support Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, what his
Answer · 24 May 2024
Funding for the concept phase of Multi Role Support Ship (MRSS) has been approved by HM Treasury. I can confirm that the platform will be procured through the new Integrated Procurement Model (IPM), which I recently announced. As such, the next step in th...
Multi-role Support Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, whether
Answer · 24 May 2024
Funding for the concept phase of Multi Role Support Ship (MRSS) has been approved by HM Treasury. I can confirm that the platform will be procured through the new Integrated Procurement Model (IPM), which I recently announced. As such, the next step in th...
Multi-role Support Ships
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, whether
Awaiting an answer from the Ministry of Defence.
Landing Ship Dock Auxiliaries: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Bay-class ships.
Answer · 24 May 2024
The Secretary of State confirmed in his speech to the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference on 14 May 2024 that up to six Multi Role Support Ships will replace our current amphibious fleet, including the Bay Class Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliaries) and RFA A...
RFA Argus: Decommissioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for RFA Argus.
Answer · 24 May 2024
The Secretary of State confirmed in his speech to the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference on 14 May 2024 that up to six Multi Role Support Ships will replace our current amphibious fleet, including the Bay Class Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliaries) and RFA A...
Early day motions
| 18 Mar 2015 | WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE IN ROTHERHAM, SOUTH YORKSHIRE | 18 sig. |
| 4 May 1999 | SUEZ CANAL ZONE AND THE MILITARY MEDALS COMMITTEE | 37 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
30 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
We all want this defence investment plan to be a success, and I personally thank the MOD officials who have worked so hard for many months to get us to this point. I welcome the extra money the Treasury may have ceded in the last couple o…
16 Jun 2026 Personal Statements
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a personal statement on my resignation as the UK Defence Secretary. Many in the media have pressed me to say more since Thursday, but I am a proud parliamentarian, and I wanted first to speak i…
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
We are urging both sides to scale down their activity and respect the ceasefire so that the current ceasefire agreement in the wider middle east can be translated into a permanent peace, including between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
One of our Ministers will meet the hon. Gentleman.
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
Yes.
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
We must spend more, we must spend faster—and we will, as the Prime Minister has said. On our nuclear deterrent, I am proud that this Government are putting £6 billion, in this Parliament, into increasing the productivity of our submarine b…
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
First, we are directing defence investment first to British firms that increase British jobs and increase apprenticeships, skills and opportunities for young people. Secondly, we are opening up direct entry recruitment to the armed forces …
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The hon. Gentleman has a brass neck. There is no recognition of the fact that we are increasing defence spending by a record amount since the end of the cold war, no recognition that this year the defence budget will be £11 billion greater…
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The hon. Gentleman may not have heard me when I answered before, but I can say to him very clearly that the Prime Minister is determined that we publish the defence investment plan before the NATO summit.
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I can indeed. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s support for the successful Northumbria bid in the first round of the VALOUR funding, which will help cover her constituency. [Interruption.] Given that one in eight of our ex-forces personnel…
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
With deep regret, I should inform the House that a training accident occurred in northern Iraq yesterday in which a member of service personnel from the British Army died. The family have been informed, and have asked for a period of grace…
1 Jun 2026 Defence Bonds
With all due respect—and I have a great deal of respect for my hon. Friend—the biggest increase in defence spending since the end of the cold war is hardly the plodding path he describes. I welcome his Committee’s inquiry into defence inve…
1 Jun 2026 Defence Bonds
I remember that for at least six months after the election, the hon. Lady and her party were urging us to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. We have done better than that—we are hitting 2.6% next year, three years before anyone…
1 Jun 2026 Defence Bonds
As I mentioned in a previous answer, we are indeed looking to participate in, and be able to take advantage of, the European Union’s loan scheme for Ukraine. That is a way in which we could accelerate getting good kit into the hands of the…
1 Jun 2026 Defence Bonds
This Government are making the biggest increase in defence investment since the end of the cold war. This year alone, we have more than £11 billion more in the defence budget than in the last year of the previous Government. As the Prime M…
1 Jun 2026 Russia: Level of Threat
The hon. Gentleman makes a really important argument. It was captured in the strategic defence review, and has been put into practice since. Within the last two weeks, I was with our troops in Estonia, close to the Russian frontline, and I…
1 Jun 2026 Russia: Level of Threat
The hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong in his assertion and his facts. With the Attorney General, I led a meeting of the 10 joint expeditionary force nations’ legal military experts, in which we set out, discussed and shared the legal basis …
1 Jun 2026 Russia: Level of Threat
On the contrary, this is deterrence in action. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman does not recognise that we supported the French operation and were proud to do so. Defence stands ready to lead on our own interdiction, but the impact …
1 Jun 2026 Russia: Level of Threat
I completely agree with my hon. Friend. We are doing more to expose the threats, and will do more still. The Russian threat against the UK is real and rising, and it is important for the public and Parliament to understand that. That is wh…
1 Jun 2026 Russia: Level of Threat
I agree with my hon. Friend that we are right to seek a closer relationship with the European Union, which has an important contribution to make, from within a “NATO first” framework. That is why, last year, we signed the security and defe…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Secretary of State for Defence · Ministry of Defence 5 Jul 2024 – 11 Jun 2026
- Minister of State (Department for Communities and Local Government) (Housing) · Department for Communities and Local Government 5 Jun 2009 – 6 May 2010
- Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Local Government) · Department for Communities and Local Government 29 Jun 2007 – 5 Jun 2009
- Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 10 May 2005 – 28 Jun 2007
- Economic Secretary (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 30 May 2002 – 10 May 2005
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Skills) · Department for Education and Skills 11 Jun 2001 – 30 May 2002
Opposition posts
- Shadow Secretary of State for Defence · Ministry of Defence 6 Apr 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Shadow Secretary of State for Housing · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 9 Jan 2018 – 6 Apr 2020
- Shadow Secretary of State for Housing · Department for Communities and Local Government 7 Oct 2016 – 9 Jan 2018
- Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government) (Housing and Planning) · Department for Communities and Local Government 14 Sep 2015 – 27 Jun 2016
- Shadow Secretary of State for Health · Department of Health 8 Oct 2010 – 7 Oct 2011
- Shadow Minister (Housing) · Department for Communities and Local Government 12 May 2010 – 8 Oct 2010
Committee memberships
- Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 2 Nov 2007 – 12 Oct 2009
- Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) 20 Dec 2004 – 12 Jan 2009
- Public Accounts Committee 20 Jul 2005 – 19 Nov 2007
- Education & Employment 14 Jul 1997 – 29 Nov 1999
Previous seats
- Wentworth and Dearne · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
- Wentworth · Elected 3 times 1 May 1997 – 6 May 2010
Elections contested
- Ryedale 9 Apr 1992
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 4031
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
79 High Street, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham, S63 7QB
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about John Healey, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is John Healey?
John Healey is a Member of Parliament representing Rawmarsh and Conisbrough in the House of Commons. See John Healey's official Parliament profile.
Which party does John Healey represent?
John Healey sits as Labour. See John Healey's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does John Healey represent?
John Healey is the Member of Parliament for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough. See John Healey's official Parliament profile.
How long has John Healey been an MP?
John Healey has served in the House of Commons for 29 years, 2 months. See John Healey's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for John Healey?
John Healey has 5 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See John Healey's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.