Member of Parliament
Christian Wakeford
Labour MP for Bury South
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
At a glanceChristian Wakeford is a Labour MP for Bury South, and has represented the seat for 6 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury. They have cast 491 votes in Commons divisions (85% attendance) and tabled 274 written questions.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Christian Wakeford did not vote in 26. 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 Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
Current roles
- Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill Committee since 9 Feb 2026
- Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury Government post · HM Treasury since 7 Sep 2025
- Committee of Selection Committee since 24 Jun 2025
- Bury South Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 19 Jan 2022
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 477 of 477 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 473 of 473 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 470 of 470 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 467 of 467 shared votes
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Sir Mark Tami
Labour
100.0% · 464 of 464 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 271 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 131 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.3% · 1 of 310 shared votes
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Sir James Cleverly
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 318 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 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.
Written questions
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of proscribing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as a terrorist group.
Answer · 23 May 2024
While the UK Government keeps the list of proscribed organisations under review, we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not being considered for proscription.To proscribe an organisation, the Home Secretary must have a reasonable ...
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has plans to proscribe the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as a terrorist group.
Answer · 23 May 2024
While the UK Government keeps the list of proscribed organisations under review, we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not being considered for proscription.To proscribe an organisation, the Home Secretary must have a reasonable ...
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Animals in Science Regulation Unit annual report 2022, published on 25 April 2024, if he will make it his policy to initiate an investigation into the reasons for the rise in non
Answer · 13 May 2024
The Home Office takes non-compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 very seriously. The reasons for the increase in the number of non-compliance cases in 2022 include the introduction of a risk-based audit programme and the drive to imp...
Three: Vodafone Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the links between the Li family and the Chinese state on the proposed merger of Three Mobile with Vodafone.
Answer · 13 May 2024
The Government has the power to review mergers and acquisitions through the National Security and Investment Act to ensure the most sensitive sectors of our economy are protected. It would be inappropriate to comment on private individuals. The Secretary ...
Three: Vodafone Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority into the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three Mobile.
Answer · 13 May 2024
Merger investigations undertaken by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are independent of Government. The CMA is directly accountable to Parliament.
Rolling Stock: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to help support train companies to (a) buy rather than lease trains and (b) purchase UK-made trains.
Answer · 7 May 2024
Rolling stock assets have an expected operational lifespan of between thirty to thirty-five years exceeding the duration of the operating contracts currently in place with train operators.These long-term investments made by the rolling stock owners passes...
Public Sector: Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to increase public sector pay in line with inflation.
Answer · 13 May 2024
Pay for most frontline workforces is set via independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs). PRBs consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motivate suitably able and qualified people; the financial c...
Financial Conduct Authority
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the workplace culture at the Financial Conduct Authority.
Answer · 8 May 2024
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is operationally independent from Government, meaning it is responsible for internal matters, including its workplace culture.
Speeches in the chamber
15 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
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24 Jan 2025 Gambling Act 2005 (Monetary Limits for Lotteries) Bill
Which one?
13 May 2024 Pensioner Poverty
My inbox is full of constituents who are sick of the economic chaos inflicted by this Government and by the former Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for South West Norfolk (Elizabeth Truss). Can the Minister explain why the number of e…
13 May 2024 Pensioner Poverty
8. What recent estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in poverty.
25 Apr 2024 Business of the House
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On Monday, the Official for National Statistics released its reports on alcohol-specific deaths registered in 2022. There were 10,048 deaths related to alcohol, which is a 32.8% increase on pre-pandemic lev…
25 Apr 2024 Topical Questions
Further to the question asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) about the infected blood scandal, the Cumberlege report highlighted over three years ago the need for redress for victims of…
25 Apr 2024 Ministerial Code
On 19 April, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister to report a breach of the rules by the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in relation to a visit to Venezuela to meet President Maduro on beha…
25 Apr 2024 Ministerial Code
1. What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of compliance with the ministerial code.
18 Apr 2024 Access to Redress Schemes
The hon. and gallant Member is kind in giving way. Moving back to the sodium valproate scandal, we keep saying that justice delayed is justice denied, but in that case, it is not only children but grandchildren who are impacted, because it…
18 Apr 2024 Access to Redress Schemes
The hon. and gallant Member is making an important point about how we seem to have unique circumstances in trying to overcome some of these issues. For example, the sodium valproate issue was raised through Baroness Cumberlege’s “First Do …
18 Apr 2024 Business of the House
I join the Leader of the House in wishing the Jewish community, whom I am proud to represent, chag Pesach sameach. Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating Bernard, Jonno and the entire team at Radcliffe football club on r…
15 Apr 2024 Iran-Israel Update
It has been over 15 months since it was reported that proscription of the IRGC was imminent. Since then, Iran has continued to fund and supply Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Following this continued funding for terror and destabilisatio…
7 Mar 2024 Business of the House
This week, 4 March marked the one- year anniversary of Anu Abraham’s death. Anu was a young man with a bright future and he should still be here. After speaking to his family and seeing photos of him, I can say that he was one of the kinde…
7 Mar 2024 National Minimum Wage Enforcement
Naming and shaming serves as a deterrent, but should we not go further against persistent offenders? Paying the minimum wage is not an opt-out; it is a law that no company is above. Stronger penalties, including fines proportionate to the…
7 Mar 2024 National Minimum Wage Enforcement
15. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of publicly naming employers for the enforcement of the national minimum wage.
1 Mar 2024 Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill
I rise to lend my support to the Bill in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Lloyd Russell-Moyle). I must say how disappointing it is that we have got to a position where it looks like the Bill will not be read a …
1 Mar 2024 Conversion Practices (Prohibition) Bill
Surely the entire point of the Bill is what my hon. Friend is already addressing, which is that the practice is evil: it is evil against gay people, evil against lesbian people, and evil against transgender people. If it is abhorrent for e…
29 Feb 2024 Business of the House
On 18 January, I raised the case of Pilsworth South landfill in my constituency, which has been giving off an awful smell due to the operator breaching its licence. I asked the Leader of the House whether we could have a debate in Governme…
29 Feb 2024 Topical Questions
On the contaminated blood scandal, why have the Government not named the experts?
21 Feb 2024 Ceasefire in Gaza
In January, I visited Israel and saw for myself the aftermath of Hamas’s attacks last October. In the kibbutz Kfar Aza, I walked the burned-out streets and saw the homes, razed to the ground. This was not the scene of a battle, but of a we…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Assistant Whip · Whips Office (Commons) 10 Jul 2024 – 7 Sep 2025
Opposition posts
- Opposition Whip (Commons) · Whips Office (Commons) 31 Oct 2022 – 30 May 2024
Committee memberships
- Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] 5 Feb 2025 – 11 Feb 2025
- Crown Estate Bill [HL] 29 Jan 2025 – 6 Feb 2025
- Finance Bill 22 Jan 2025 – 30 Jan 2025
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 29 Nov 2022 – 30 May 2024
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill 24 Apr 2024 – 14 May 2024
- Automated Vehicles Bill [HL] 13 Mar 2024 – 19 Mar 2024
- Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] 14 Jun 2023 – 19 Jun 2023
- Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee 7 Jun 2023 – 12 Jun 2023
- Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill 3 May 2023 – 23 May 2023
- Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] 11 Jan 2023 – 17 Jan 2023
- Transport Committee 17 May 2022 – 13 Dec 2022
- Education Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 15 Mar 2022
Previous seats
- Bury South · Elected 1 time 12 Dec 2019 – 30 May 2024
Party affiliation
- Conservative 12 Dec 2019 – 19 Jan 2022
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 6437
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office, 11 Deansgate, Radcliffe, Manchester, M26 2SH
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Christian Wakeford, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Christian Wakeford?
Christian Wakeford is a Member of Parliament representing Bury South in the House of Commons. See Christian Wakeford's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Christian Wakeford represent?
Christian Wakeford sits as Labour. See Christian Wakeford's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Christian Wakeford represent?
Christian Wakeford is the Member of Parliament for Bury South. See Christian Wakeford's official Parliament profile.
How long has Christian Wakeford been an MP?
Christian Wakeford has served in the House of Commons for 6 years, 7 months. See Christian Wakeford's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Christian Wakeford?
Christian Wakeford has no entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Christian Wakeford's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.