Member of Parliament

Peter Dowd

Labour MP for Bootle

At a glancePeter Dowd is a Labour MP for Bootle, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They have cast 398 votes in Commons divisions (69% attendance), tabled 1,057 written questions and registered 1 financial interest.

Votes cast398

Attendance69%

Voted Aye181

Voted No217

Voted with party99.2%

Rebellions3

Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Peter Dowd did not vote in 177. 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

Peter Dowd is the Labour MP for Bootle, and has been an MP continually since 7 May 2015.

Current roles4 held

Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Committee since 11 Dec 2024
Panel of Chairs Committee since 30 Jul 2024
Bootle Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Labour Party since 7 May 2015

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
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading	Aye
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading	No
1 Jul 2026	Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5	No
1 Jul 2026	Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4	No
1 Jul 2026	Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2	No
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	Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2026	Aye
23 Jun 2026	Opposition Day: Puberty blockers	No
23 Jun 2026	Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment	Aye
23 Jun 2026	Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness	No
22 Jun 2026	Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11	No
22 Jun 2026	Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 22	No

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Voting alignmentmost and least similar MPs

Votes most like

Euan Stainbank Labour 100.0% · 368 of 368 shared votes
Lorraine Beavers Labour 100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
Paula Barker Labour 100.0% · 348 of 348 shared votes
Ms Stella Creasy Labour (Co-op) 100.0% · 343 of 343 shared votes
Neil Duncan-Jordan Labour 100.0% · 335 of 335 shared votes

Votes least like

Sir Roger Gale Conservative 0.4% · 1 of 249 shared votes
Mark Pritchard Conservative 0.9% · 2 of 233 shared votes
George Freeman Conservative 0.9% · 2 of 216 shared votes
David Davis Conservative 1.0% · 2 of 204 shared votes
Joy Morrissey Conservative 1.2% · 3 of 250 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 UK1

International visit to Italy between 05 October 2025 and 11 October 2025 (registered 4 Nov 2025)

Source: Register of Interests on parliament.uk.

Written questions1,057 tabled

School Meals: Standards 13 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations her Department has received from children and young people on improving the healthiness of school food as part of the proposed updated School Food Standards.

Awaiting an answer from the Department for Education.

Liver Diseases: Health Services 10 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the NHS Liver Transformation Programme reduces health inequalities in liver disease outcomes for people living in areas with high levels of deprivation.

Answer · 20 Jul 2026

The resource for transforming liver services sits with integrated care boards, who will consider local need and the actions to progress alongside other clinical priorities.The national team’s role has been to bring together relevant stakeholders to co-ord...

Liver Diseases: Health Services 10 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS Liver Transformation Programme is adequately staffed and prioritised during the ongoing reorganisation of NHS England.

Answer · 20 Jul 2026

Liver Diseases: Health Services 10 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been allocated to the NHS Liver Transformation Programme for 2026-27.

Answer · 20 Jul 2026

Animal Experiments: Primates 5 Jun 2026 · Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations made by the Animals in Science Committee on non-human primates used in service licenses, published on

Answer · 11 Jun 2026

The Government welcomes the advice provided by the Animals in Science Committee (ASC) on non-human primates used in service licences and is carefully considering its recommendations to inform policy and regulatory practice. The Government will publish its...

Parking: Pedestrian Areas 2 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her Department's proposed timeline is for decriminalising pavement parking to enable local authorities to take enforcement action against vehicles parked on pavements.

Answer · 5 Mar 2026

On 8 January 2026, I announced the publication of the government’s formal response to the 2020 public consultation 'Pavement parking: options for change' which sets out what the government plans to do to tackle pavement parking. In the first instance we p...

Education and Employment: Disability 27 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence his Department holds, including survey data and commissioned research, on the extent to which disabled people identify inaccessible streets and public transport as barriers to accessing em

Answer · 17 Mar 2026

The Department regularly conducts research and analysis that looks at the barriers faced by disabled people such as the ‘Work aspirations and support needs of health and disability customers’ and this can be found on GOV.UK. One way the Department support...

Multiple Sclerosis: Health Services 9 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his department collects to monitor potential inequalities in multiple sclerosis care access; and how those findings are used to inform policy and service delivery improvements.

Answer · 5 Jan 2026

The Department does not collect patient-level clinical data directly but works with NHS England and other bodies to monitor inequalities in access to multiple sclerosis (MS) services through a range of national programmes and datasets.The UK Multiple Scle...

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Speeches in the chamber1,556 on record

1 Jul 2026 Drink driving, drug driving and dangerous driving laws

The petition states: The petition of residents of the United Kingdom, Declares that current laws and procedures relating to drink driving, drug driving, and dangerous driving are failing to protect the public, as delays between arres…

30 Jun 2026 Department of Health and Social Care

The NHS will carry out screening and evaluation of newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, which causes spinal cord deterioration. It is a devastating genetic condition. The evaluation will start in October in England, but not …

25 Jun 2026 Ports and Port Connectivity

It is a delight to see you in the Chair, Ms Jardine. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and Falmouth (Jayne Kirkham) on bringing this debate to this Chamber. I will talk about the port of Liverpool, which is actually mos…

22 Jun 2026 Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Newborn Screening Test

A group of SMA experts wrote an article in The Lancet in February 2025 entitled “The human toll of slow decisions”. They recommended that “expert opinion and international evidence should be more thoroughly integrated into the decision-…

22 Jun 2026 Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Newborn Screening Test

I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing this debate and welcome your chairmanship of it, Mr Mundell. My hon. Friend referred earlier to 90% of children who are untreated potentially dying before their second birthday. That is a soberi…

18 Jun 2026 Stoma: Public Toilet Provision

I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

18 Jun 2026 Human Rights: Supply Chains

Thank you reminding me that I am almost a year older.

18 Jun 2026 Human Rights: Supply Chains

I am pleased that the right hon. Member referred to my generosity, which extends even to Liverpool supporters.

18 Jun 2026 Human Rights: Supply Chains

I remind Members that we have about five or six minutes, give or take, per person. Just bear that in mind. I also remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called.

17 Jun 2026 High Street Shops: Illicit Activity

I remind hon. Members to be as brief as possible with their interventions. We should just get everyone in with the four-minute time limit.

17 Jun 2026 High Street Shops: Illicit Activity

Order. Everyone who wishes to speak is bobbing. Because of the number of hon. Members who have indicated that they wish to speak in the debate, and with the authority of the Chairman of Ways and Means, I am imposing a time limit on Back-Be…

17 Jun 2026 High Street Shops: Illicit Activity

We have 10 or 12 people, including the Minister and Opposition spokespersons, wishing to speak. There are lots of people here, and I am sure there will be lots of interventions. I will therefore impose a four-minute limit on speeches, but …

24 Mar 2026 Reproductive Coercion

Natalie Fleet will move the motion and the Minister will respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and from the Minister. As is the convention in 30-minut…

11 Mar 2026 Engagements

Q8. National Highways, a Government-owned company, has reneged on a promise to replace a demolished footbridge at Park Lane West in Netherton. The footbridge crossed one of the busiest roads and junctions in Merseyside, used by countles…

4 Mar 2026 China: Foreign Interference Arrests

I thank the Minister for the update, and I welcome progress made on the counter-political interference and espionage plan. Would the Minister return to the House as appropriate to further update us on that plan?

3 Mar 2026 A5036 Park Lane footbridge

The original footbridge over the A5036 at Park Lane, Netherton, provided a safe crossing for thousands of children and adults for decades. The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to ensure that the …

11 Feb 2026 Local Government Finance

I thank the Secretary of State and his ministerial team for listening to my representations and those of my council. My experience of Tory Secretaries of State is that having them listen, let alone act, is about as rare as rocking-horse du…

3 Feb 2026 Taxation: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

I assure the hon. Member for Farnham and Bordon that I read his parliamentary contributions assiduously, side by side with the Labour manifesto—so there. Question put and agreed to.

3 Feb 2026 Town and City Centre Safety

I thank everybody for their forbearance—everyone got in to speak—and the Front Benchers for their slightly truncated responses. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered town and city centre safety.

3 Feb 2026 Town and City Centre Safety

Order.

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