Member of Parliament
James Murray
Labour (Co-op) MP for Ealing North
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
At a glanceJames Murray is a Labour (Co-op) MP for Ealing North, and has represented the seat for 6 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. They have cast 375 votes in Commons divisions (65% attendance), tabled 306 written questions and registered 6 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; James Murray did not vote in 200. 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
He currently holds the Government post of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Current roles
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Government post · Department of Health and Social Care since 14 May 2026
- Ealing North Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 12 Dec 2019
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 368 of 368 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 362 of 362 shared votes
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Warinder Juss
Labour
100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
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Matt Turmaine
Labour
100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 357 of 357 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 168 shared votes
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Alan Mak
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 284 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 220 shared votes
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Saqib Bhatti
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 256 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 251 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.
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources6
- BBC - £484.80 (registered 16 May 2026)
- Mentorn Media - £295.00 (registered 4 Dec 2025)
- BBC - £328.30 (registered 14 Nov 2025)
- Mentorn Media - £475.00 (registered 30 Oct 2025)
- BBC - £498.30 (registered 3 Jul 2025)
- BBC - £221.20 (registered 3 Jul 2025)
Written questions
Revenue and Customs: Recruitment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HMRC employees were (a) recruited exclusively using artificial intelligence and (b) in roles relating to the recruitment of new staff in each of the last five years.
Awaiting an answer from the Treasury.
VAT: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what date (a) he and (b) HMRC first became aware of fraud involving the VAT484 form; and what steps he is taking to tackle such fraud.
Answer · 21 May 2024
HMRC regularly encounters attempts to fraudulently attack its systems and does not routinely keep records of the value of individual instances unless a pattern emerges. Towards the end of February, HMRC identified a small number of cases which constituted...
Taxation: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many incidents of tax fraud involving (a) the VAT484 form and (b) other paper forms HMRC has recorded in each of last five financial years; and what the (i) total and (ii) average value of those incidents is.
Answer · 21 May 2024
HMRC regularly encounters attempts to fraudulently attack its systems and does not routinely keep records of the value of individual instances unless a pattern emerges. Towards the end of February, HMRC identified a small number of cases which constituted...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to answer Question 21855, tabled by the hon. Member for Ealing North on 15 April 2024.
Answer · 9 May 2024
The answer to Question 21855 was published on 2 May 2024. I apologise for the delay in responding to the hon. Member.
National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of (a) Class 1 employee, (b) Class 1 employer, (c) Class 2 and (d) Class 4 self-employed National Insurance Contributions receipts in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer · 23 Apr 2024
The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes forecast levels of National Insurance receipts in their Economic and Fiscal Outlook report.
Baby Care Units: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2023 to Question 5143 on Baby Care Units: Parental Leave, what her planned timetable is for bringing forward the remaining statutory instruments under the Neonatal
Answer · 18 Apr 2024
We are committed to introducing Neonatal Care Leave and Pay as quickly as possible and work is ongoing across Government to deliver these new entitlements by April 2025, subject to parliamentary scheduling.
Sewage: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2024 to Question 19486 on Sewage: Repairs and Maintenance, if he will issue guidance to (a) local authorities and (b) water companies on whether they
Answer · 2 May 2024
There is no statutory duty for water companies under Section 59 of the Building Act 1984. The legislation explains the responsibilities of local authorities and the powers available to them, as well as the options for recovering costs they might incur if ...
Empty Property: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 37 of his Department's publication entitled, Spring Budget 2024: Policy Costings, published in March 2024, if he will publish the figures used by his Department for the size of the tax base in
Answer · 26 Mar 2024
The policy costing was based on data reflecting business rates receipts and reliefs as reported by local authorities in the National Non-Domestic Rates forms, which are publicly available on the gov.uk website.
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The hon. Gentleman raises an important point about the loneliness often faced by people who are being treated for cancer—particularly for young people, whose loneliness can be acute when they are separated from their friendship groups and …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The National Screening Committee plays a vital role in providing clinical and evidence-based advice on how to target screening programmes. In my time as Secretary of State over the past few months, the committee has made a number of recomm…
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Officials at the Department of Health and Social Care are looking closely at that matter, and will publish the Government response in due course.
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
We want to ensure that hospitals in our new hospitals programme across the country are built as quickly as possible. We inherited a programme where there was no funding to deliver that, or funding that was completely unreasonable and with …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I thank my hon. Friend for raising this long-standing campaign, which I know is of great interest to many people in the Chamber. I welcome the fact that the trust, as I understand it, has now completed a feasibility study, which concluded …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I thank the hon. Lady for raising that important point and drawing attention to the impacts that iodine deficiency can have. I am happy to look into the matter further and respond to her in writing.
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
As the hon. Lady will know, I have committed to introducing a maternity and neonatal commissioner. I will meet the national taskforce, which I chair, later this afternoon to discuss the scope of the role to ensure that the taskforce has di…
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
We are determined to reduce waiting times across the country. Where there are cases of individual hospitals or trusts like the case my hon. Friend mentioned, we will send in teams from the national health service to help improve the servic…
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The vast majority of people who come off the waiting list do so because they are receiving the care they need. I am confused: is the right hon. Gentleman advocating that people should stay on the waiting lists when they no longer need NHS …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I am proud of the fact that the waiting list for NHS services is more than 340,000 less than when we took office two years ago. People are being treated faster than ever before, satisfaction with GP services is increasing and we are making…
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I thank my hon. Friend for raising the situation. Clearly, we should ensure that NHS rooms are being used for the benefit of patients. On that specific case, I understand that Central East ICB is developing a plan to reoccupy the Houghton …
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
We want to improve the NHS estate across the country, and that is why we are increasing capital investment to £15 billion a year by 2028-29. I am happy to write to the hon. Lady with further details on the specific investment in her consti…
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
As you know, Mr Speaker, the Minister for Secondary Care, my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth), is not here this morning as she is attending the graduation of her son Will. I am sure that the whole House will join me i…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Accountability
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for raising that important point. While I understand that the amendments he tabled will not be voted on today, they raise an important issue that I will continue to look further into. With the Hillsborough …
14 Jul 2026 NHS Accountability
I think it is fair to say that while Healthwatch has in some areas played an important role, it has fundamentally separated those listening to patients from those who have the power to make changes. Our reforms in the Health Bill will put …
14 Jul 2026 NHS Accountability
The Health Bill, which is going through Parliament now, will restore clear accountability to the NHS. By abolishing NHS England, we are ending the confusion created by having two separate centres. Responsibility for national decision makin…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Trusts: Digital Infrastructure
The hon. Lady makes a very compelling case for the investment that we are putting in to transform digital infrastructure in the NHS, because the single patient record—introduced through the Health Bill that is currently going through Parli…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Trusts: Digital Infrastructure
I put it on the record that my hon. Friend has been a most determined advocate for patients and staff at the North West Anglia NHS foundation trust, who clearly deserve better IT systems. We have agreed plans to replace the trust’s electro…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Trusts: Digital Infrastructure
This Government will invest up to £10 billion in NHS technology and transformation by 2028-29. That includes ambient voice technology, which supports doctors to write up notes more quickly so that they can focus on patient care, and the si…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Workforce: Sickness Absence
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. He is absolutely right to point to the record investment that this Labour Government are putting in, not just for the day-to-day running of the health service, but the critical capital investment, af…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 1 Sep 2025 – 14 May 2026
- Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 9 Jul 2024 – 1 Sep 2025
Opposition posts
- Shadow Financial Secretary (Treasury) · HM Treasury 16 Oct 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Opposition Whip (Commons) · Whips Office (Commons) 14 Apr 2020 – 16 Oct 2020
Committee memberships
- Public Accounts Committee 28 Oct 2024 – 21 Oct 2025
- Crown Estate Bill [HL] 29 Jan 2025 – 6 Feb 2025
- Finance Bill 22 Jan 2025 – 30 Jan 2025
- Finance (No.2) Bill 15 May 2024 – 21 May 2024
- Finance Bill 10 Jan 2024 – 16 Jan 2024
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 10 May 2023 – 18 May 2023
- Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill 23 Nov 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
- UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] 16 Nov 2022 – 22 Nov 2022
- Finance (No.2) Bill 8 Dec 2021 – 11 Jan 2022
- National Insurance Contributions Bill 16 Jun 2021 – 22 Jun 2021
- Health and Social Care Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 11 May 2020
Previous seats
- Ealing North · Elected 1 time 12 Dec 2019 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 3000
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about James Murray, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is James Murray?
James Murray is a Member of Parliament representing Ealing North in the House of Commons. See James Murray's official Parliament profile.
Which party does James Murray represent?
James Murray sits as Labour (Co-op). See James Murray's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does James Murray represent?
James Murray is the Member of Parliament for Ealing North. See James Murray's official Parliament profile.
How long has James Murray been an MP?
James Murray has served in the House of Commons for 6 years, 7 months. See James Murray's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for James Murray?
James Murray has 6 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See James Murray's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.