At a glanceRachael Maskell is a Labour (Co-op) MP for York Central, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They have cast 527 votes in Commons divisions (92% attendance), tabled 9,475 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Rachael Maskell did not vote in 48. 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
- Labour Party since 7 Nov 2025
- York Central Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Jon Trickett
Labour
100.0% · 398 of 398 shared votes
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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Labour
100.0% · 165 of 165 shared votes
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Ian Lavery
Labour
99.8% · 459 of 460 shared votes
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Emma Lewell
Labour
99.7% · 395 of 396 shared votes
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Andy McDonald
Labour
99.6% · 472 of 474 shared votes
Votes least like
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.4% · 4 of 276 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.6% · 5 of 315 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
1.9% · 6 of 315 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
2.0% · 7 of 346 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
2.0% · 6 of 295 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.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP1
- University and College Union - £25,187.00 (registered 22 Jan 2026)
Miscellaneous1
- Trustee of the Parliamentary Christian Trust (registered 7 May 2025)
Written questions
Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the number of delayed discharges from hospital.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Government is committed to ensuring that all patients are discharged from hospital appropriately with the right care and support in place. The Model Discharge Pathway has been published, to support timely, safe, and clinically led discharge from hospi...
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on ensuring the adequate provision of palliative care.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
This government is launching a new framework this autumn to fix unfair gaps in palliative care and end-of-life care. The framework, being developed with a range of stakeholders, will tackle rising demand, help identify patient needs much earlier, and mak...
Children: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the National Year of Reading having engaged over 2.1 million children so far.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
Reading for pleasure is hugely important and brings a wide range of benefits, from increased wellbeing, confidence and empathy to better vocabulary and aptitude for learning. That is why this government, in collaboration with our delivery partner, the Nat...
Children: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the National Year of Reading having engaged 6,800 schools and early years settings, and 11,000 teachers and early years practitione
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
Reading for pleasure is hugely important and brings a wide range of benefits, from increased wellbeing, confidence and empathy to better vocabulary and aptitude for learning. That is why this government, in collaboration with our delivery partner, the Nat...
Autism: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent diagnostic overshadowing in cases where anxiety, trauma, distress or school-related deterioration are dismissed as part of autism, ADHD or SEND.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
In December 2025, the Government launched an Independent Review into Prevalence and Support for Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism. This independent review will inform a new approach that reduces waiting times, improves the quality of care, and pro...
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Bovine TB Control Strategy for England, published on 10 June 2026, what weight her Departme
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The Government is currently considering the proposals set out in the recommended Bovine TB Control Strategy. As such, in the context of the recommendation to develop a framework to inform decisions about lethal badger control, no such assessment has yet b...
Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Bovine TB Control Strategy for England, published on 10 June 2026, what criteria her Department will use to determine whether wildlife control methods are humane;
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The badger cull is ending, and no new licences can be issued under that policy, as this Government instead keeps the focus on cattle while also protecting wildlife. The Government is currently considering the proposals set out in the recommended Bovine TB...
Homelessness: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Value for Money Review of homelessness spending will include analysis of the cost-effectiveness of Housing First models.
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
The Value for Money Review of homelessness will assess the underlying cost-effectiveness of cross government spend that helps to prevent and relieve all forms of homelessness, and will make actionable recommendations that improve efficiency, accountabilit...
Early day motions
| 9 Jun 2026 | King's Guard's real fur bearskin caps | 10 sig. |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Higher Education pensions | 32 sig. |
| 28 Apr 2026 | York City Football Club | 1 sig. |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Use of restraint of children in the asylum system removal process | 27 sig. |
| 9 Mar 2026 | Fipronil and Imidacloprid Pesticides | 28 sig. |
| 5 Mar 2026 | King's Guard's ceremonial bearskin caps | 82 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 Engagements
Q11. Before coming to this House, the Prime Minister and I attended the launch of my uncle’s book. It was entitled “Fine Lines and Distinctions”. Clearly, sometimes we have had those differences, but I genuinely wish him and his famil…
14 Jul 2026 UK-Switzerland Enhanced Free Trade Agreement
I congratulate my hon. Friend, but I want to ask about pharma in the light of the US-UK pharma deal. When I met academics yesterday, they expressed a concern that if we were to change the terms of the deal with the US, because of mounting …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Research shows that specialist palliative care can deliver palliative care in the community, saving the NHS 1.5 million bed days, as well as £817 million. It is important that funding accompanies the modern service framework, so that we ha…
14 Jul 2026 Extreme Heat: Preparedness
It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Christopher. It was the 1976 New Forest fire in your own constituency that woke me up to the dangers of climate destruction. Just last weekend, on Sunday night, I heard about a fire rag…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
13 Jul 2026 State of Climate and Nature
I welcome the 30 by 30 nature and climate plan, which responds to the crisis that we face and builds resilience and restoration. Following my youth environment conference in York, “Our Planet, Our Future”, it is clear that young people wan…
9 Jul 2026 Business of the House
SPARK is York’s frontline incubator for the next generation of food, drink and creative businesses; it supports young entrepreneurs to establish their businesses with strong values and good practice. It has identified that VAT is the probl…
9 Jul 2026 River Pollution
This weekend, I will be competing in York’s dragon boat race on the River Ouse, but with 3,779 sewage dumps last year, the river is the second worst for pollution. The clean water Bill gives us the opportunity to take control of our water,…
9 Jul 2026 River Pollution
4. What steps she is taking to help tackle river pollution.
9 Jul 2026 Conflicts: Impact on Older People
I am really grateful, not least because of the work done in Wales around the rights of older people and having the commission there. Will the Minister ensure that our Government take a real leadership role in moving that work forward and e…
9 Jul 2026 Conflicts: Impact on Older People
I am grateful because this is such a fundamental issue that I have focused on for some time. Will the Minister say what steps the Government are taking to expedite the process, and what kind of timescale are we looking at to see that conve…
9 Jul 2026 Conflicts: Impact on Older People
I am really grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point, as it is so important to make a catalogue of war crimes. Whether they are committed against the elderly, or they consist of any other form of violence, including sexual violenc…
9 Jul 2026 Conflicts: Impact on Older People
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Betts. I congratulate the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on securing this debate. I also wish his mother a very happy birthday for next Tuesday. In many areas of deep conflict…
8 Jul 2026 National Youth Strategy
It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms McVey. If we are going to make interventions that will have a real impact on lives and change opportunities and trajectories, we have to look at where we place those priorities. Of cours…
7 Jul 2026 Energy Prices: Household Support
I thank the Minister for his answer. Preparedness for the sharp increase in domestic energy costs is vital, with 13.5 million homes expected to be paying more than 10% of their household’s spending on energy this winter and 5.5 million hom…
7 Jul 2026 Energy Prices: Household Support
11. What steps he is taking to support low-income households with increases in energy prices.
6 Jul 2026 Patient Safety Review
I want to concur with all of the remarks by the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin), who has made a crucial point. But there is a wider issue, which the Health Bill completely misses and which I urge Ministers to l…
2 Jul 2026 Historical Forced Adoption
I sincerely thank the Prime Minister for his statement. In my role as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on adoption and permanence, he will know that I wrote to him at the start of the year about the importance of issuing this…
2 Jul 2026 Business of the House
Heat-related mortality has taken 10,000 lives in England over the last five years and exacerbated the risk of ill health, from asthma to stroke. With climate degradation, things are only going to get worse. What steps are the Government ta…
1 Jul 2026 Flood Insurance: Reform of Flood Re
The Government have invested £45 million in flood defences in York. That will provide resilience until 2039, which coincides with the ending of the Flood Re scheme. It is important for us to think about how, in the longer term, we will sup…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) · Department for Culture, Media and Sport 10 Apr 2020 – 14 Dec 2021
- Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 7 Jan 2020 – 6 Apr 2020
- Shadow Minister (Transport) · Department for Transport 3 Jul 2017 – 7 Jan 2020
- Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 27 Jun 2016 – 1 Feb 2017
- Shadow Minister (Defence) · Ministry of Defence 18 Sep 2015 – 27 Jun 2016
Committee memberships
- Health and Social Care Committee 4 Jul 2022 – 30 May 2024
- Ecclesiastical Committee 4 Mar 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill 24 Apr 2024 – 14 May 2024
- Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill 18 Jan 2023 – 25 Jan 2023
- Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill 30 Nov 2022 – 7 Dec 2022
- Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill 15 Jun 2022 – 20 Oct 2022
- Charities Bill [HL] 19 Jan 2022 – 25 Jan 2022
- Charities Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee 12 Jan 2022 – 18 Jan 2022
- Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill 5 Jan 2022 – 12 Jan 2022
- Ecclesiastical Committee 31 Oct 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Ecclesiastical Committee 28 Oct 2015 – 3 May 2017
- Health and Social Care Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 26 Oct 2015
Previous seats
- York Central · Elected 3 times 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
Party affiliation
- Independent 16 Jul 2025 – 7 Nov 2025
- Labour 7 May 2015 – 16 Jul 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 4525
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Rachael Maskell, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Rachael Maskell?
Rachael Maskell is a Member of Parliament representing York Central in the House of Commons. See Rachael Maskell's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Rachael Maskell represent?
Rachael Maskell sits as Labour (Co-op). See Rachael Maskell's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Rachael Maskell represent?
Rachael Maskell is the Member of Parliament for York Central. See Rachael Maskell's official Parliament profile.
How long has Rachael Maskell been an MP?
Rachael Maskell has served in the House of Commons for 11 years, 2 months. See Rachael Maskell's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Rachael Maskell?
Rachael Maskell has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Rachael Maskell's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.