At a glanceAdam Thompson is a Labour MP for Erewash, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 534 votes in Commons divisions (93% attendance), tabled 66 written questions and registered 4 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Adam Thompson did not vote in 41. 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
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Erewash Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 522 of 522 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 514 of 514 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 506 of 506 shared votes
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Sir Mark Tami
Labour
100.0% · 501 of 501 shared votes
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Chris Vince
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 498 of 498 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 328 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 311 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.6% · 1 of 162 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.8% · 3 of 374 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.9% · 3 of 331 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.
Miscellaneous4
- Honorary Associate Professorship based within the Department of Foundation Engineering and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham. This is an unpaid role. (registered 1 Aug 2025)
- Trustee of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust (registered 20 Dec 2024)
- Unpaid Director of Erewash Partnership. (registered 18 Jul 2024)
- Board member of Long Eaton Town Deal Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 18 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Regional Planning and Development
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help increase regional economic growth.
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
The government is committed to ensuring that growth is felt in every region of the UK, and the Chancellor named regional growth as one of her three main economic focuses in her recent Mais lecture. At the Budget and Spending Review, we committed to £725 b...
Maternity Services: Negligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the government plans to include representatives of families with a child harmed by maternity or neonatal negligence, and a representative of women harmed by maternity or neonatal negligence
Answer · 13 Apr 2026
Family voices are at the heart of our work to improve maternity and neonatal care.There are four family representatives on the National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce, many of whom have experienced bereavement in maternity and neonatal services. To hear...
High Speed 2 Line: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government will take to ensure that the sale of properties acquired by HS2 minimises disruption to existing tenancies and safeguards the housing of current tenants.
Answer · 17 Apr 2026
We recognise the concern regarding disruption to existing tenants due to the sale of HS2 properties that are no longer required. We are committed to ensuring that sales are delivered in a sensible and sensitive way. We will provide updates to tenants as t...
Clean Energy: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on support for clean energy projects in Wales.
Answer · 4 Mar 2026
This Government is backing Wales to lead the UK’s clean energy mission. Our recent Contracts for Difference scheme successfully secured contracts for Wales’ first floating windfarm Erebus, the Awel-y-Mor offshore windfarm in North Wales, and 20 onshore wi...
Overseas Students: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will will consider exempting PhD students from the International Student Levy.
Answer · 1 Apr 2026
We are engaging with the higher education sector to shape the design of the International Student Levy (ISL) to make delivery as easy as possible for providers. A technical consultation on the delivery of the ISL was open for responses until 18 February 2...
Public Buildings: Textiles
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help expand the pipeline of qualified floor layers to deliver (a) public housing, (b) hospitals, (c) schools and (d) other infrastructure projects.
Answer · 18 Nov 2025
Government is investing £625 million in construction skills over this Parliament. This includes Foundation Apprenticeships, expanded Skills Bootcamps, and the launch of Construction Technical Excellence Colleges. These measures aim to deliver up to 60,000...
Construction: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) organisations delivering commercial flooring apprenticeships and (b) other independent specialist training providers can access funding and opportunities at pa
Answer · 24 Nov 2025
The funding band of each apprenticeship standard sets out the maximum amount that the government will contribute to the costs of apprenticeship training and assessment. This is irrespective of the type or size of funding provider. New training providers c...
Music Venues: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed higher multiplier for business rates on (a) The Underworld, (b) Soul Mama and (c) other grassroots music venues with a rateable value of over £500
Answer · 28 Oct 2025
As set out at Autumn Budget 2024, the Government will introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure properties with rateable values (RVs) below £500,000, including grassroots music venues, from 2026-27. This permanent tax cut ...
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment
It is always an honour to speak in the Adjournment debate in memory of Sir David Amess. As is traditional, I will endeavour to cram as many topics as I can into my contribution before we break for the summer recess. I will discuss recen…
16 Jul 2026 Business of the House
In my constituency surgeries and on the doorsteps in Erewash, I keep hearing how my constituents have been experiencing significant delays with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, particularly in processing driving licences—very speci…
16 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
T5. This Government have promised to deliver new homes, and I want Erewash to be at the forefront of that delivery, but our road network is overloaded. My constituents are particularly concerned about growing strain on junction 25 of th…
7 Jul 2026 Climate Change: Weather Events
While many of our ongoing discussions in this House rightly focus on decarbonising heating, climate change means that cooling is becoming increasingly important, too, particularly in the context of our recent extreme heatwaves. As these h…
7 Jul 2026 Climate Change: Weather Events
7. What steps he plans to take following recent weather events to help tackle climate change.
2 Jul 2026 Business of the House
I recently did the school run in Ilkeston with Bebe Newton, experiencing it in the way that she does: in a wheelchair. We navigated broken pavements, uneven crossings and all kinds of poorly placed street furniture. It really showed me the…
30 Jun 2026 Culture, Media And Sport
It is a joy to speak in this estimates day debate on sport and youth services, particularly after I spent my weekend joining the Furniture Makers’ Company for its annual tug-of-war in West Park, Long Eaton. Erewash has a very long history …
24 Jun 2026 Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and extend my thoughts to everyone who has been a part of the Ockenden review. I also hugely thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) for her unending efforts in…
22 Jun 2026 Pathways Study: Puberty Suppression
Before my election, I was a scientist—albeit not in the health sciences. Using that background, however, can I agree with the Secretary of State that healthcare practices and medical trials, like all scientific trials, must be led by exper…
22 Jun 2026 East Midlands Railway Collision
Long Eaton is a railway town. On Saturday, a train driver who lives in my constituency stopped me to say that he had known Shaun Burton, the driver who was killed in the incident, and that he himself had been driving one of the two trains …
22 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
A new Best Start family hub is opening in Cotmanhay, bringing together support for families in one of the most deprived communities in my constituency and across Derbyshire. As the Government roll out the hubs nationwide, what steps is the…
16 Jun 2026 Ebola Outbreaks
The covid-19 pandemic showed us how quickly infectious diseases can spread globally and the importance of acting early to contain outbreaks at source. Given that lesson, can the Minister outline how the UK is working with international par…
16 Jun 2026 Ebola Outbreaks
15. What steps her Department is taking with international partners to support the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
Two local sisters in Breaston are seeking to turn the former Hidden Ivy garden centre into a new nursery to provide much-needed childcare for local families, but they face a lengthy and costly change-of-use process, including the requireme…
9 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
Particularly for people with a very low body mass index or an eating disorder, the use of app-based fitness classes for hours of ultra-high-intensity exercise every day can lead to addiction. When I wrote to one brand to ask about implemen…
4 Jun 2026 Business of the House
Councillor Harry Atkinson recently marked his final day as civic mayor of the borough of Erewash with a visit to this House. At just 25 years old, he was widely believed to be the youngest mayor in the country during his mayoral year. Duri…
2 Jun 2026 Milburn Review: Interim Report
Tomorrow I am going to visit my former colleagues at the University of Nottingham to celebrate our first tranche of electromechanical engineering degree-level apprentices as they approach the end of their five-year course. Will the Ministe…
21 May 2026 Middle East: Economic Response
I thank the Chancellor for her statement, and particularly her VAT cut on theme park tickets. I invite her and all hon. Members to join me on my annual trip to Alton Towers this summer. Erewash has many great summer events for families to …
21 May 2026 Costs for Motorists
The Tories oversaw the only Parliament in history where living standards were lower at the end than they were at the start. This Government, by contrast, got wages up more in a year than the Tories did in a decade, with growth and inflatio…
14 May 2026 Getting Britain Working Again
The hon. Member raises a point that I was about to touch on. When I met Charles Mason, the managing director of Cluny Lace, he told me at length about how post-Brexit export and import difficulties have caused him immeasurable pain, becaus…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 21 Oct 2024 – 22 Jun 2026
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 15 Jan 2026 – 3 Feb 2026
- Victims and Courts Bill 17 Jun 2025 – 24 Jun 2025
- Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] 13 May 2025 – 15 May 2025
- Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill 4 Dec 2024 – 12 Dec 2024
Elections contested
- Amber Valley 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Adam Thompson, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Adam Thompson?
Adam Thompson is a Member of Parliament representing Erewash in the House of Commons. See Adam Thompson's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Adam Thompson represent?
Adam Thompson sits as Labour. See Adam Thompson's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Adam Thompson represent?
Adam Thompson is the Member of Parliament for Erewash. See Adam Thompson's official Parliament profile.
How long has Adam Thompson been an MP?
Adam Thompson has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Adam Thompson's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Adam Thompson?
Adam Thompson has 4 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Adam Thompson's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.