At a glanceJess Phillips is a Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They have cast 361 votes in Commons divisions (63% attendance), tabled 673 written questions and registered 14 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Jess Phillips did not vote in 214. 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
- Birmingham Yardley Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 7 May 2015
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 354 of 354 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 353 of 353 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 349 of 349 shared votes
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Adam Thompson
Labour
100.0% · 347 of 347 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 346 of 346 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 211 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.9% · 1 of 111 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.0% · 2 of 204 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
1.1% · 3 of 264 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
1.2% · 2 of 168 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 earnings4
- Library copyright fees - Public Lending Right
- Royalties
- Writing articles
- Writing books - United Agents
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments4
- Payment received on 12 February 2026 - £365.92 (registered 13 Feb 2026)
- Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £600.00 (registered 29 Oct 2025)
- Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £600.00 (registered 16 Oct 2025)
- Payment received on 31 July 2025 - £12,300.00 (registered 20 Aug 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources4
- Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre - £298.00 (registered 6 Nov 2025)
- Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre - £204.00 (registered 6 Nov 2025)
- Seabright Live Ltd - £362.00 (registered 20 Aug 2025)
- Live Nation Ltd - £565.00 (registered 22 Jul 2025)
Miscellaneous2
- A director of Birmingham Museums Trust which manages Birmingham Museums including a site in my constituency. This is an unpaid role. (registered 18 Sep 2023)
- A trustee of the Stacy Wanjiku Welfare Trust. Having raised money for the education and welfare of Stacey Wanjiru I am a trustee of the fund. Stacey is the daughter of Agnes Wanjiru a Kenyan woman murdered in 2012 in a case linked to British Armed Forces. This is an unpaid role. (registered 24 Mar 2022)
Written questions
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what flexibility (a) NICE and (b) NHS England have to approve for use drugs that (i) are used in combination with other drugs, (ii) are used for various (A) conditions and (B) lines of treatment an
Answer · 23 May 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new licensed medicines, and significant licence extensions for existing medicines, should be routinely funded by the NHS. The NIC...
Visas: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visas have been granted to the non-British dependents of (a) British Israelis and (b) British Palestinians that have been repatriated since 7 October 2023.
Answer · 20 May 2024
The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas granted, by nationality, main applicants, and dependants are published in table Vis_D02 of the Entry clearance detailed dataset...
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she (a) has had discussions and (b) plans to have discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on (i) its use of the new severity modifier and (ii) how it (A) meas
Answer · 13 May 2024
The Department regularly meets with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to discuss a range of issues, including in relation to the NICE’s methods for the evaluation of medicines. In 2022, the NICE introduced a number...
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she (a) has had and (b) plans to have with (i) charities and (ii) other organisations working to secure UK access to new drugs for (A) incurable, (B) relapsing and (C) remitting ca
Answer · 13 May 2024
Department ministers and officials regularly meet with a range of organisations, with an interest in securing patient access to new cancer medicines. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the body that develops authoritative, evi...
Ask for ANI Scheme: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of the Ask for ANI domestic abuse scheme in 2023.
Answer · 22 Mar 2024
The Home Office allocated £243,662 in the financial year 2022/23 and £168,449 in the financial year 2023/24 to Hestia Housing for the delivery of the Ask for ANI scheme. In the financial year 2022/23, we also allocated £45,323 to develop an e-learning mod...
Sexual Assault Referral Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has completed its review of service provision of June 2022 to determine whether forensic and medical interventions for non-fatal strangulation which occur in domestic abuse shou
Answer · 28 Mar 2024
The National Sexual Assault Referral Centre’s (SARC) Service Specification, as reviewed and updated in June 2023, now reflects the offence of non-fatal strangulation (NFS). The specification states: Appropriate medical and forensic interventional support ...
Ask for ANI Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department’s Ask for ANI scheme cost in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
Answer · 8 Mar 2024
The Home Office allocated £243,662 in the financial year 2022/23 and £168,449 in the financial year 2023/24 to Hestia Housing for the delivery of the Ask for ANI scheme.
Ask for ANI Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to publish the evaluation of the Ask for ANI scheme.
Answer · 23 Feb 2024
Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) was launched across pharmacies in the UK during the unprecedented emergency of the pandemic in January 2021. Since then, there have been 186 reported disclosures from across the UK where victims have been supported ...
Early day motions
| 27 Jun 2019 | INDEPENDENT PANEL INQUIRY FOR ZANE GBANGBOLA | 51 sig. |
| 5 Mar 2018 | BIRMINGHAM PUB BOMBINGS 1974 - FUNDING FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE CORONER | 21 sig. |
| 23 Mar 2016 | WOMEN APPRENTICES | 40 sig. |
| 23 Mar 2016 | NATIONAL EXPRESS LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER | 32 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Will the Minister give way?
29 Jun 2026 Prisoner Early Release
I recognise that very few rapists went to prison under the previous Administration and that the increase in rapists, especially child rapists, going to prison under this Government has been huge. I congratulate the Government on that. It i…
15 Jun 2026 Social Media Ban for Under-16s
As somebody who was in some of the rooms where this policy was being discussed, I pay tribute to the Secretary of State. She has fought incredibly hard, and by no means has any of it been rushed for an announcement; she has worked incredib…
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
It has been an honour and a pleasure to work with my hon. Friend over the years, and I absolutely agree with her. Does she agree that perpetrating domestic abuse or sexual violence should eliminate someone from being able to hold such offi…
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
I do not have any notes written down, because when I tried to write things down this morning, I just kept crying, but I shall try to get through this regardless. Many brilliant things will be said about Jo today, and my hon. Friend the …
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
She would have loved you, Zubir.
8 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute back to the Home Secretary, who has worked incredibly hard on the issues on which the Government made their announcement today. The BBC carries the headline that we will stop children se…
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
The hon. Gentleman gives me an opportunity to say that in the documents, those who may have had disappearing messages or who deleted their messages are listed almost as nil returns. I was one of those people who was asked for my messages a…
20 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill
More than under his Government.
23 Mar 2026 Topical Questions
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. The violence against women and girls strategy will focus on the specific issue of ensuring that services such as the police get it right about post-separation coercive and controlling behaviour.
23 Mar 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
I send all my sympathy to the hon. Gentleman’s constituent, who sounds like she has had a terrible ordeal. Off the top of my head, one measure that the Government have rolled out is the domestic abuse protection order, which gives police t…
23 Mar 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
In the launch of the violence against women and girls strategy, I committed to annually updating the House on progress across a number of metrics—both the overarching metrics, and those that sit in different Government Departments, some of…
23 Mar 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
We are delivering the cross-Government freedom from violence and abuse strategy, published in December, which sets out concrete actions for halving VAWG in a decade by preventing violence and abuse, pursuing perpetrators, and supporting vi…
23 Mar 2026 Financial Abuse
As I said in answer to the previous question, the Department for Work and Pensions is absolutely fundamental and a core part of the interministerial group that works on the violence against women and girls strategy because of the financial…
23 Mar 2026 Financial Abuse
It is not unusual to hear of such cases, and that is why the Department for Work and Pensions sits on the interministerial group on violence against women and girls. The VAWG strategy commits to removing direct pay, which will enable the C…
23 Mar 2026 Financial Abuse
Economic abuse can have devastating impacts on victims, even after the relationship ends. The VAWG strategy included ambitious commitments to tackle economic abuse, and it was considered as a cross-cutting theme in HM Treasury’s financial …
23 Mar 2026 Non-consensual Filming: Legal Frameworks
I am more than happy to discuss the issue with the hon. Lady. I spent this morning in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology with the violence against women and girls sector and Ofcom to look at some of those gaps that she h…
23 Mar 2026 Non-consensual Filming: Legal Frameworks
Sadly, as technology becomes entwined in our day-to-day lives, we recognise the threat that tech-enabled harm poses, which is why the violence against women and girls strategy sets out how we are seeking to tackle it. I am pleased to say t…
23 Mar 2026 Child Exploitation
I feel equally disgusted by the examples that the hon. Lady has laid out. The violence against women and girls strategy makes it very clear that in tackling online misogyny, the Government will look across regulation, legislation and educa…
23 Mar 2026 Child Exploitation
The right hon. Gentleman raises a key point about how safeguarding will be rooted at the heart of the reforms that will be brought forward. I work frequently with the Minister for Children and others to ensure that whatever local multi-age…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) · Home Office 9 Jul 2024 – 12 May 2026
Opposition posts
- Shadow Minister (Domestic Violence and Safeguarding) · Home Office 10 Apr 2020 – 15 Nov 2023
Committee memberships
- Crime and Policing Bill 20 Mar 2025 – 13 May 2025
- Education Committee 30 Apr 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill 31 Jan 2024 – 7 Feb 2024
- Criminal Justice Bill 6 Dec 2023 – 30 Jan 2024
- Victims and Prisoners Bill 14 Jun 2023 – 11 Jul 2023
- Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill 8 Feb 2023 – 22 Feb 2023
- Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill 7 Dec 2022 – 14 Dec 2022
- National Security Bill 29 Jun 2022 – 18 Oct 2022
- Local Government (Disqualification) Bill 24 Nov 2021 – 1 Dec 2021
- Women and Equalities Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Backbench Business Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion 15 Nov 2016 – 6 Nov 2019
- Backbench Business Committee 13 Jun 2016 – 3 May 2017
- Women and Equalities Committee 6 Jul 2015 – 3 May 2017
- Backbench Business Committee 20 Jul 2015 – 12 May 2016
Previous seats
- Birmingham, Yardley · Elected 3 times 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 8703
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Jess Phillips, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Jess Phillips?
Jess Phillips is a Member of Parliament representing Birmingham Yardley in the House of Commons. See Jess Phillips's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Jess Phillips represent?
Jess Phillips sits as Labour. See Jess Phillips's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Jess Phillips represent?
Jess Phillips is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley. See Jess Phillips's official Parliament profile.
How long has Jess Phillips been an MP?
Jess Phillips has served in the House of Commons for 11 years, 2 months. See Jess Phillips's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Jess Phillips?
Jess Phillips has 14 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Jess Phillips's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.