At a glanceMary Glindon is a Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They have cast 490 votes in Commons divisions (85% attendance) and tabled 988 written questions.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mary Glindon did not vote in 85. 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
- Backbench Business Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Administration Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
99.7% · 367 of 368 shared votes
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Yasmin Qureshi
Labour
99.7% · 298 of 299 shared votes
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Margaret Mullane
Labour
99.6% · 444 of 446 shared votes
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Mohammad Yasin
Labour
99.5% · 397 of 399 shared votes
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Naz Shah
Labour
99.4% · 315 of 317 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.6% · 5 of 306 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
1.7% · 5 of 299 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.8% · 5 of 274 shared votes
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Mark Garnier
Conservative
1.9% · 7 of 363 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
2.1% · 6 of 287 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.
Written questions
Department for Work and Pensions: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time taken to provide a substantive response to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
The Department recognises that response times to casework enquiries from Members of Parliament have been impacted by increased volumes and the complexity of cases requiring detailed investigation. To address this, the Department has deployed additional re...
Private Rented Housing: Ombudsman
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman will consider previous cases of inadequate conduct by landlords when making decisions on complaints.
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman will resolve tenant complaints about their landlords’ actions or behaviours. The purpose of Ombudsman redress is to provide fair, independent resolution of complaints and ensure that an individual making a comp...
Schools: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help schools adapt to rising temperatures.
Answer · 30 Jun 2026
The department takes periods of hot weather and heatwaves seriously and has published a climate risk assessment. We continue to support responsible bodies and schools to provide education in a safe environment. The department has also published guidance t...
Employment: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help workplaces adapt to rising temperatures.
Answer · 30 Jun 2026
The Government is committed to ensuring workplaces are safe in the modern world, and in ‘Next Steps to Make Work Pay’ we committed to look at how to modernise health and safety guidance for extreme temperatures. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Gr...
Housing: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help households adapt to rising temperatures.
Answer · 30 Jun 2026
The Warm Homes Plan sets out our approach to upgrading the nation’s homes, including climate adaptation. Over this Parliament, we intend to introduce the most appropriate, cost-effective passive cooling measures into our capital schemes, to support low-in...
Musculoskeletal Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the quality and volume of musculoskeletal content in medical training match the prevalence of these conditions in the population.
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
The standard of training for doctors is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC sets the outcome standards expected at undergraduate level, and approves courses and medical schools to write and teach the curricula content that ena...
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the (a) data and (b) metrics used in musculoskeletal services.
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
Data is fundamental to the effective delivery of health services, underpinning service improvement and ultimately improving outcomes for patients.Musculoskeletal (MSK) data for secondary care, including orthopaedics, spinal services, paediatric orthopaedi...
Joint Replacements: Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of using BMI threshold criteria for joint replacement surgery and the Government's commitment to reducing health inequalities in regions with (a) lo
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
It is the responsibility of individual integrated care boards to determine policies for their local area, including that of Body Mass Index (BMI) threshold criteria for joint replacement surgery. As with all surgery, BMI should be considered as one part o...
Early day motions
| 18 May 2026 | Trophy hunting imports | 22 sig. |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Funding for medical students in their final years of study | 15 sig. |
| 16 Jul 2025 | Dame Norma Redfearn CBE | 5 sig. |
| 21 May 2025 | Former secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq | 6 sig. |
| 21 Oct 2024 | Iraqi Women’s League and rights in Iraq | 13 sig. |
| 12 Sep 2024 | Proposed smoking ban | 4 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment
I am sure we are all aware of the importance of the role played by civil servants across the whole country. People often devote their whole working lives to these roles, so the least they deserve is to get the pensions they have paid for o…
15 Jul 2026 A1: North Northumberland
I am not a Northumberland MP, but I really want to press the Minister on a couple of things. The fact is that this road is important not just to Northumberland and Scotland, but to the whole region. While Hadrian’s Wall is not on the A1, p…
24 Jun 2026 North Sea Oil and Gas
Yesterday we had the AGM of the all-party parliamentary group for the British offshore energy industry, of which the hon. Lady is a member, and I hope that the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Douglas Lumsden) will join us on it. Does she a…
18 Jun 2026 Regional Innovation and Growth
I thank my constituency neighbour for her statement. Does she agree with me that devolved authorities, such as the North East combined authority, have the local knowledge to inspire, support, drive and encourage innovation and growth in pl…
18 Jun 2026 Business of the House
My constituent Abdul faced three on-the-day cancellations of his asylum interview because of challenges securing an interpreter. He then had a fourth interview, in his second language, in which he is not proficient. He is now appealing his…
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
The north-east has the highest number of young people not in education, employment or training anywhere in the country—64,000 in total. I recently joined the Centre for Social Justice and Fenwick Newcastle for a “Big Listen”, with 120 empl…
9 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
T3. At the age of six, Ellis Lake was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy, which is treatable if diagnosed early. His parents Tracy and Luke are campaigning for newborn screening for the disease. The UK National Screening Commit…
8 Jun 2026 Progression of Bills through Parliament
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way while making such an important speech on such an important, but also contentious, subject. We know that the Parliament Act has only ever been used seven times and never for a private Member’s Bill, and…
23 Apr 2026 Business of the House
Further to the concerns raised by the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers), will the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero make a statement on the delayed hydrogen strategy refresh? Projects in my constituency…
24 Mar 2026 Clean Energy: Private Sector Investment
Allocation round 7 was a resounding vote of confidence from developers, and our supply chains will welcome that. At a roundtable I hosted last year, the Secretary of State set out the innovative principles behind the clean industry bonus. …
24 Mar 2026 Clean Energy: Private Sector Investment
11. What discussions he has had with private sector representatives on securing investment in clean energy industries.
23 Mar 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Bill
I welcome the Minister to her place and congratulate her on her new role. She has a hard act to follow, but I am sure she will be brilliant in her job. Could she say what metrics the Government will use to measure whether the Bill successf…
23 Mar 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Bill
I commend my hon. Friend for all her work as part of the APPG on smoking and health and in her former role as a councillor. Does she find it as shocking as I do that four in 10 adult smokers in this country believe vaping to be as harmful …
19 Mar 2026 Business of the House
A local pharmacy has contacted me regarding the need for a fast resolution to this year’s settlement negotiations. The pharmacy’s leadership tells me that their wage, pension and national insurance costs will increase substantially in Apri…
5 Mar 2026 Palliative Care
I am very sorry to hear about the mother of my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Tom Collins). This is a topic of deep personal importance to me, to many of us in the Chamber and to many of our constituents, but it took a private Me…
5 Mar 2026 Energy Markets
At a time when the UK is increasingly dependent on and exposed to internationally traded LNG, does delaying the oil and gas price mechanism not risk reducing investment in domestic supply exactly when global markets are least stable?
26 Feb 2026 Business of the House
Over recent weeks, students and graduates have written to me about the broken student loans system. They tell me about the mental stress caused by punitive interest rates, and that the planned freeze of the repayment threshold will impac…
23 Feb 2026 Leasehold Reform
Leaseholders in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend contact me regularly about extortionate service charges, saying that tribunals are slow and stressful and that, ultimately, they feel powerless. The Minister for Housing and Planning ha…
23 Feb 2026 Leasehold Reform
2. What steps he is taking to reform service charges for leaseholders.
12 Feb 2026 Business of the House
Rising employer contributions to the teachers’ pension scheme are mounting significant pressures on post-1992 universities and driving some to cut costs to deliver the same teaching. I have been contacted by staff at Northumbria University…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Opposition Whip (Commons) · Whips Office (Commons) 14 Apr 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Farming and Rural Communities) · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 10 Oct 2016 – 10 Apr 2020
Committee memberships
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill 30 Apr 2024 – 14 May 2024
- Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill (Formerly known as International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill) 17 Apr 2024 – 24 Apr 2024
- Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill 10 Jan 2024 – 30 Jan 2024
- Renters (Reform) Bill 8 Nov 2023 – 28 Nov 2023
- Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill 15 Mar 2023 – 23 Mar 2023
- Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) 2 Nov 2022 – 29 Nov 2022
- Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill 22 Jun 2022 – 7 Jul 2022
- Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL] 9 Feb 2022 – 10 Feb 2022
- Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill 3 Nov 2021 – 18 Nov 2021
- Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill 7 Sep 2021 – 22 Sep 2021
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 8 Jun 2020
- Transport Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 31 Oct 2016
- Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee 25 Feb 2013 – 30 Mar 2015
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 30 Mar 2015
Previous seats
- North Tyneside · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 3000
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Swans Centre for Innovation, Station Rd, Wallsend, NE28 6HJ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mary Glindon, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mary Glindon?
Mary Glindon is a Member of Parliament representing Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in the House of Commons. See Mary Glindon's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mary Glindon represent?
Mary Glindon sits as Labour. See Mary Glindon's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mary Glindon represent?
Mary Glindon is the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. See Mary Glindon's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mary Glindon been an MP?
Mary Glindon has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Mary Glindon's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mary Glindon?
Mary Glindon has no entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mary Glindon's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.