At a glanceMark Ferguson is a Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They currently serve as Assistant Whip. They have cast 448 votes in Commons divisions (78% attendance), tabled 23 written questions and registered 7 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mark Ferguson did not vote in 61. 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 Assistant Whip.
Current roles
- Assistant Whip Government post · Whips Office (Commons) since 7 Sep 2025
- Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee since 9 Jun 2025
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Gateshead Central and Whickham Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Josh Dean
Labour
100.0% · 436 of 436 shared votes
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Harpreet Uppal
Labour
100.0% · 413 of 413 shared votes
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Gareth Snell
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 400 of 400 shared votes
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Charlotte Nichols
Labour
100.0% · 394 of 394 shared votes
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Peter Swallow
Labour
100.0% · 389 of 389 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 201 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 274 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 149 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.9% · 3 of 316 shared votes
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Saqib Bhatti
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 300 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 MP5
- Lord (David) Sainsbury - £20,000.00 (registered 7 May 2026)
- UNISON - £2,000.00 (registered 22 Jan 2026)
- Lord (David) Sainsbury - £20,000.00 (registered 1 Dec 2025)
- UNISON - £900.00 (registered 20 Oct 2025)
- UNISON - £2,050.00 (registered 15 Aug 2025)
Miscellaneous2
- Governor, Larkspur Community Primary School (registered 1 Dec 2025)
- Co-Chair, UNISON Group of Labour MPs. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 Nov 2024)
Written questions
Driving Instruction: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help reduce waiting lists for Approved Driving Instructor exams; and what recent progress her Department has made in reducing those backlogs.
Answer · 4 Sep 2025
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeing an increased demand for Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) tests for those wishing to qualify as driving instructors. Since 2018-19, DVSA has seen a 152% increase in the number of those applying to s...
Trade Agreements: India
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK-India free trade agreement on Scotland.
Answer · 4 Jun 2025
Our trade deal with India is great news for Scotland, increasing exports, growing our economy and securing jobs. Scottish products will benefit from significant tariff reductions. That includes whisky, where the current 150% tariff will be halved from day...
Voluntary Work: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of workplace safeguarding rights for volunteers in the third sector.
Answer · 12 May 2025
Volunteers serve at the heart of our communities nationwide, dedicating their time to create positive change and enhance the lives of those around them. The Government is committed to supporting volunteering, which is critical to a vibrant, connected and ...
Georgia: Democracy
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support democracy in Georgia.
Answer · 16 Jan 2025
On 16 December I spoke with Georgian Dream's Foreign Minister, Maka Bochorishvili, about recent events in Georgia, and about Georgia's negative democratic trajectory. I stressed that police violence targeting peaceful demonstrators, opposition figures and...
Transport: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the (a) total cost to the public purse for, (b) proportion of her Department’s total expenditure that was spent on and (c) spend per head for transport infrastructure in (a) the No
Answer · 16 Jan 2025
Figures on public sector expenditure at national and regional levels are published as part of HM Treasury’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics (Available here for current and previous publications: https://www.gov.uk/government/c...
Roads: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of spending on road infrastructure in (a) the North East and (b) England over the last 15 years by (i) percentage of total Departmental spe
Answer · 16 Jan 2025
Figures on public sector expenditure at national and regional levels are published as part of HM Treasury’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics (available here for current and previous publications: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cou...
Futibatinib
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the NHS supply of Futibatinib.
Answer · 11 Dec 2024
NHS England funds the use of licensed medicines that have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Futibatinib is licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and has been recommended by the ...
Futibatinib
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for patients to receive the immunotherapy drug Futibatinib through the NHS; and what criteria his Department uses to determine whether a patient is eligible for any fundin
Answer · 11 Dec 2024
NHS England funds the use of licensed medicines that have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Futibatinib is licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and has been recommended by the ...
Speeches in the chamber
21 Oct 2025 Co-operative Sector: Government Support
I have to make progress—sorry. Additionally, the Government asked the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to produce, by the end of 2025, a report on the wider mutuals landscape, which is well under way. …
21 Oct 2025 Co-operative Sector: Government Support
That point is very well made, and my hon. Friend is right to be proud of his forebears, who were doughty working-class politicians and representatives of his area, as he is. The Rochdale principles, established by the Rochdale pioneers,…
21 Oct 2025 Co-operative Sector: Government Support
My hon. Friend intervened on my maiden speech, which is slightly irregular, and now he has intervened on my first outing at the Dispatch Box. Co-operatives have a wide variety of uses in the economy and I am sure that the Department and th…
21 Oct 2025 Co-operative Sector: Government Support
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. Please do not adjust your sets: I am not the Economic Secretary to the Treasury. But I am very pleased to be here on her behalf for my first stint at the Dispatch Box. [Hon. Mem…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My long-standing views on reform of our Parliament can be looked up by any Member if they so wish. I very much welcomed, both on Second Reading and from the Front Bench today, the comments on the future reform of the Lords and what that mi…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
I thank my hon. Friend, although I do not think that will help me with my diet. However, I am doing the great north run on Sunday so I will probably need the calories. I am happy that we are having the debate, but I am somewhat surprise…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
I will happily take a point in a second from my hon. Friend, which I presume will be on the Lords amendment and not on oatcakes, but I wish to respond fully to the point made by the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
I delighted to inform the right hon. Member about the parliamentary Labour party’s Back-Bench committee, which meets the Prime Minister weekly when Parliament is sitting. I see at least one of my hon. Friends from the committee here—[Inter…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
This has been a suitably fascinating debate. I do not plan to speak for too long, because the points have already been well made. We have had 10 hours here and 52 flippin’ hours in the House of Lords on this concise, four-clause Bill, and …
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
That is a fascinating argument. The hon. Gentleman has argued in favour of the Lords for their restraint, and now he is arguing in favour of the Lords because they allow radicalism. That does not make any sense.
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
I thank the Father of the House for giving way. He makes a compelling point about other countries. Would he care to name some other countries that have people sitting in their legislature, able to introduce and vote on legislation, entirel…
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Will the Father of the House give way?
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Will the hon. Member give way?
4 Sep 2025 House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
This is a fascinating return to the ’90s—like much about the Conservative party—but I think the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has missed the fact that there was an election last year in which the Labour party clearly won a ma…
3 Sep 2025 Property Taxes
Indeed. Thank God the Conservatives are not writing the Budget, because we have seen what their Budgets led to. I understand Opposition Members’ frustration. It is nice to see that they have settled into the most comfortable aspect of bein…
3 Sep 2025 Property Taxes
It is wonderful to be back for another Opposition day debate, as I am sure we can all agree. It is another debate about imagined proposals. It must be a difficult time for Opposition Members, because for so many years, this was the time of…
21 Jul 2025 Asylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal Activity
The shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp), has spoken passionately about crimes in this country—including, I dare say, some by a number of individuals who entered the country on his Government’s watch…
15 Jul 2025 Afghanistan
As I am sure many Members do, I feel a sense of anger that once again the Afghan people have been betrayed. I thank the Secretary of State for his candour and his response, and for lifting the super-injunction, which will allow proper parl…
9 Jul 2025 Trial by Jury: Proposed Restrictions
As I think Members across the House would agree, Alex Chalk, the former Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, was taken seriously in this place, as were his opinions. He recently said that some cases “could conceivably be dealt with by…
8 Jul 2025 Road and Rail Projects
The Secretary of State and the Minister for the Future of Roads will be surprised that I am going to break the habit of a lifetime and not talk about the Gateshead flyover for a change. But I am very interested in the structures fund, and …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 15 Jan 2026 – 3 Feb 2026
- Planning and Infrastructure Bill 24 Apr 2025 – 22 May 2025
- Committee on Standards 28 Oct 2024 – 3 Mar 2025
- Committee of Privileges 28 Oct 2024 – 3 Mar 2025
- Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) 14 Oct 2024 – 3 Mar 2025
- Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) 14 Oct 2024 – 3 Mar 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
0191 429 8200
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mark Ferguson, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mark Ferguson?
Mark Ferguson is a Member of Parliament representing Gateshead Central and Whickham in the House of Commons. See Mark Ferguson's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mark Ferguson represent?
Mark Ferguson sits as Labour. See Mark Ferguson's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mark Ferguson represent?
Mark Ferguson is the Member of Parliament for Gateshead Central and Whickham. See Mark Ferguson's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mark Ferguson been an MP?
Mark Ferguson has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Mark Ferguson's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mark Ferguson?
Mark Ferguson has 7 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mark Ferguson's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.