At a glancePaulette Hamilton is a Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, and has represented the seat for 4 years, 4 months. They have cast 490 votes in Commons divisions (85% attendance), tabled 100 written questions and registered 11 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Paulette Hamilton did not vote in 85. 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
- Courts and Tribunals Bill Committee since 18 Mar 2026
- Health and Social Care Committee Committee since 21 Oct 2024
- Modernisation Committee Committee since 9 Sep 2024
- Birmingham Erdington Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 3 Mar 2022
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 477 of 477 shared votes
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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 469 of 469 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 464 of 464 shared votes
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Alan Strickland
Labour
100.0% · 460 of 460 shared votes
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Lola McEvoy
Labour
100.0% · 453 of 453 shared votes
Votes least like
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David Davis
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 239 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 272 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 300 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
1.1% · 3 of 282 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
1.3% · 4 of 318 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 earnings2
- Media appearances - ITN Productions (registered 1 Apr 2025)
- Sitting on hearings as an Independent Associate Manager - Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust (registered 21 Mar 2022)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments7
- Payment received on 19 March 2026 - £270.00 (registered 8 Apr 2026)
- Payment received on 08 May 2026 - £300.00 (registered 1 Jun 2026)
- Payment received on 23 January 2026 - £300.00 (registered 8 Apr 2026)
- Payment received on 19 March 2026 - £600.00 (registered 23 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 05 December 2025 - £300.00 (registered 15 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 07 November 2025 - £450.00 (registered 18 Nov 2025)
- Payment received on 04 September 2025 - £600.00 (registered 4 Sep 2025)
Miscellaneous2
- Vice President of the Local Government Association (LGA). This is an unpaid role. (registered 25 Jul 2022)
- Registered Nurse at the Bank Universities Hospitals, Birmingham. (registered 21 Mar 2022)
Written questions
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 8929, if his Department will consult with civil society organisations with expertise relating to rare and less survivable cancers when developing t
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The Department and NHS England continue to work with cancer stakeholders on the implementation of the National Cancer Plan and will discuss the development of cancer manuals with relevant stakeholders.As set out in our National Cancer Plan, the first wave...
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the fresh freezing and storage of brain tumour tissue, including data collected through NHS England’s gap analysis of freezer capacity; and if he will provide the
Answer · 6 Jul 2026
NHS England has completed a gap analysis of the need for freezer capacity and is looking at how to support services to provide an equitable expansion of that capacity. The Department and NHS England will work with professional bodies, including the Roya...
Pupils: Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether training on (a) race, (b) consent, and (c) safeguarding in relation to (i) children’s hair, (ii) Afro hair and (iii) bodily autonomy forms part of (A) early years and (B) teacher training requirements;
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
The department is committed to ensuring that all children receive a high-quality and inclusive education, supported by well-trained early years practitioners and teachers.To achieve qualified teacher status and early years teacher status, trainees must me...
Pupils: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides on preventing unwanted touching of (a) Black and (b) mixed-heritage children’s Afro-textured hair in (i) early years and (ii) school settings; how this issue is addressed w
Answer · 12 Jun 2026
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Birmingham Erdington to the answer of 10 June 2026 to Question 6581.
Personal Care Services: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the equalities impact of (a) not routinely including Afro-textured hair within hairdressing qualifications and (b) individuals having been denied access to hairdressin
Answer · 12 Jun 2026
We are committed to improving the quality of hair and beauty qualifications and have plans in place to reform all qualifications for 16 to 19 learners. Content for any new hair and beauty qualifications, including new Level 2 Occupational Certificates and...
Employment: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of hair-based discrimination on women’s employment outcomes, particularly for Black and mixed-heritage women; and whether she plans to tackle that issue in
Answer · 24 Jun 2026
I refer the Hon Member to the answer on 12 June 2026 (PQ UIN 6577).
Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what consideration she has given to updating equality legislation to help tackle hair-based discrimination.
Answer · 12 Jun 2026
The government wants to ensure that whoever you are, wherever you come from, Britain is a country that will respect your contribution and give you a fair chance to get on in life. The Equality Act 2010 uses a very broad definition of race, so that it prot...
British Council: Commonwealth
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role the British Council plays in delivering the UK’s International Education Strategy in Commonwealth countries.
Answer · 20 May 2026
The ambitions in the UK’s International Education Strategy will be delivered in close collaboration between government, the sector, the UK’s International Education Champion and key partners including the British Council. The reformed Education Sector Act...
Early day motions
| 13 Jan 2026 | Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce research funding | 25 sig. |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Care Home Open Week 2025 | 9 sig. |
| 21 Nov 2023 | Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month | 52 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The Health and Social Care Committee is publishing its report tomorrow on fixing the food environment, and it will be making several recommendations to support everyone to eat more healthily. Will the Minister commit to engaging positively…
24 Jun 2026 Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
May I start by saying that my thoughts are with the families and with the babies who have died? I would also like to say to my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh): I am sorry you had to go through this. It should…
24 Jun 2026 Engagements
Q8. I thank the Prime Minister for his leadership. One of the concerns I hear most often from my constituents across Erdington, Kingstanding, Castle Vale and south Oscott is about the rapid growth of exempt accommodation. In my constitu…
17 Jun 2026 High Street Shops: Illicit Activity
My hon. Friend makes a vital point. It needs to be joined up. The one thing I have learned from being an MP and seeing things work in my area is that when we work together, we get things done. Organised criminal networks are operating a…
17 Jun 2026 High Street Shops: Illicit Activity
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger) for securing this vital debate. When I speak in this House about illicit activity in high street shops, I do…
16 Jun 2026 West Midlands Police: Government Support
I thank the hon. Member for securing this vital debate. I represent the constituency next door to his, and I agree with much of what he has said. People are saying they need to feel safe on the streets. My constituency has had Operation Fe…
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
My constituents in Gravelly Hill in Erdington continue to raise serious concerns about the impact of air pollution on health and quality of life around the A38 spaghetti junction interchange. With almost 200,000 vehicles passing through th…
9 Jun 2026 Road Safety: West Midlands
My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. Sometimes we do not look at the issues faced by people who live in the countryside because we are looking at the issues that we face on the busy roads in some of our areas. He is right that it is vita…
9 Jun 2026 Road Safety: West Midlands
I rise to speak about Chester Road in Erdington, which has become a real concern for many residents because of the repeated serious collisions and fatalities over recent years, the most recent being on 24 May 2026. Residents tell me that a…
4 Jun 2026 Business of the House
My constituent Ethan Lacey from Castle Vale in Birmingham is fighting for his life in hospital in Thailand following a serious incident. His family are facing unimaginable distress as they seek to support him and navigate the challenges he…
1 Jun 2026 Health Bill
As someone who has worked in the NHS for 25 years as a district nurse and who has been involved in integrated care systems in Birmingham and Solihull since the very beginning, I will focus my contributions on three areas of the Bill: healt…
23 Apr 2026 Allied Health Professionals
My hon. Friend is making some fantastic points, especially those highlighting the findings of the Health and Social Care Committee. Allied health professionals are absolutely vital to what we do in the health service. As with health visito…
21 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Seventh sitting)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I rise to speak to the new clause that is tabled in my name, which I do not intend to push to a vote. It would require the Lord Chancellor to conduct and lay before Parliament a r…
16 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
The Minister makes such a brilliant point. She is right: 31% of those who have become magistrates are from an ethnic minority group. But when we look outside London, we see that we are unable to recruit in the numbers that we need in big c…
16 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)
I am no expert, but I find this argument fascinating. What would it take to make the shadow Minister believe what the Minister is saying? I do not understand this subject, except for everything that I have read, but the Minister has been a…
16 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)
I am learning so much from these sessions. I have a question on choice. Many people feel that the removal of choice is a real problem. Can the Minister explain why that choice is not being given to people who feel that they need it because…
16 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)
I thank the shadow Minister; I am listening to what he is saying and I am finding it really interesting. But let us not forget that, until 2019, we had a backlog of something like 40,000, and that has now doubled to nearly 80,000. The Tory…
14 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Third sitting)
The Minister is making some important points, but I must bring her back to what she said about the fairness of jury trials, and about people feeling that they are fair. At the moment, many minority groups and working people of a lower soci…
25 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Second sitting)
Q Good afternoon, Doug. I have a really quick question. I am just going to be brutally honest. I am a woman of colour—a black woman. Within our communities in the UK, there is a fear that if we move towards a judge-only trial, it would cr…
25 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (First sitting)
Q Thank you all, and can I add to everybody’s remarks about the powerful testimonies that are coming across today? Following on from Joe’s question, my question is for you, Farah. The Bill’s impact assessment states that repeal alone is u…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Health and Social Care Committee 4 Jul 2022 – 30 May 2024
- High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill 6 Mar 2024 – 13 Mar 2024
- Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill 14 Dec 2022 – 11 Jan 2023
Previous seats
- Birmingham, Erdington · Elected 1 time 3 Mar 2022 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
0121 306 4275
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Paulette Hamilton, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Paulette Hamilton?
Paulette Hamilton is a Member of Parliament representing Birmingham Erdington in the House of Commons. See Paulette Hamilton's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Paulette Hamilton represent?
Paulette Hamilton sits as Labour. See Paulette Hamilton's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Paulette Hamilton represent?
Paulette Hamilton is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington. See Paulette Hamilton's official Parliament profile.
How long has Paulette Hamilton been an MP?
Paulette Hamilton has served in the House of Commons for 4 years, 4 months. See Paulette Hamilton's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Paulette Hamilton?
Paulette Hamilton has 11 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Paulette Hamilton's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.