At a glanceLuke Akehurst is a Labour MP for North Durham, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 482 votes in Commons divisions (84% attendance), tabled 333 written questions and registered 8 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Luke Akehurst did not vote in 93. 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
- Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill Committee since 9 Feb 2026
- Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance Committee Committee since 4 Mar 2025
- Finance Committee (Commons) Committee since 20 Jan 2025
- North Durham 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% · 473 of 473 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 467 of 467 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 462 of 462 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 458 of 458 shared votes
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Adam Thompson
Labour
100.0% · 457 of 457 shared votes
Votes least like
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 339 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 291 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 288 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 140 shared votes
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Alan Mak
Conservative
0.8% · 3 of 353 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.
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Estonia between 12 October 2025 and 15 October 2025 (registered 16 Oct 2025)
Shareholdings2
- Shares in Labour to Win Ltd (registered 22 Jul 2024)
- Shares in Labour First Ltd (registered 22 Jul 2024)
Miscellaneous5
- Member, British-American Parliamentary Group Executive Committee. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 Jan 2025)
- Trustee, Friends of Labour Students. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Director, Labour to Win Ltd. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Director/Secretary, Labour First Ltd. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- PLP Representative on Labour Party National Executive Committee. (registered 22 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Ukraine: Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to apply the Project Octopus model of manufacturing Ukrainian-designed systems in the UK to other capability areas, including electronic warfare and marine autonomy.
Answer · 21 Jul 2026
Project OCTOPUS is our first collaborative capability project with Ukraine under Programme LYRA, which the Prime Minister and President Zelenskyy launched last June. Programme LYRA enables the bilateral exchange of battlefield technology and intellectual ...
Ukraine: Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to Ukrainian defence technology companies seeking to establish production facilities in the UK, including through initiatives including the UK/EU-Ukraine Defence Innovation Co
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
The UK is committed to deepening its defence industrial partnership with Ukraine, including by helping Ukrainian defence technology companies engage with UK industry, innovation networks, and potential routes to production, especially where these align wi...
Ukraine: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Kyiv Business Centre will be fully operational; and if he will set how UK SMEs will be able to access its services.
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
The Ministry of Defence has now placed a contract with Audere Group to deliver the Kyiv Business Centre. Initial operating capability is expected in summer 2026, with the Centre moving to full operating capability later in the year, aligned with wider UK-...
Ukraine: Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the defence technology export mechanism recently approved by the Government of Ukraine on UK defence companies; and what steps he is taking to support UK com
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
The Ministry of Defence continues to identify and exploit defence and industrial collaboration opportunities with Ukraine. Under our 100-Year Partnership, we are establishing stronger and closer defence cooperation both on a governmental and industrial ba...
Electronic Warfare and Unmanned Air Systems: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Defence Investment Plan published on 30 June 2026, what milestones have been set for the delivery of counter-drone and electromagnetic warfare capabilities.
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
The pace of technological innovation and development of uncrewed aerial systems means the threat is in a state of constant change. To keep pace with this rapid evolution of the threat, counter drone capability needs to focus on spiral development, flexibi...
Ukraine: Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the UK/EU-Ukraine Defence Innovation Corridor Parliamentary Roundtable held on 23 June 2026, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) procurement speed, (b) technology transfer between
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, MOD Ministers and officials have maintained a continuous dialogue across government, the private sector, and with Ukrainian counterparts to enable UK industry to collaborate on and support Ukraine’s highest priorities. ...
Revenue and Customs: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms exist to ensure independent oversight of allegations of serious misconduct or criminality involving HMRC investigators, including compliance with referral requirements and the effectiveness of arrang
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
In England & Wales, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has the authority to investigate the most serious complaints and conduct matters in connection with the enforcement activities of HMRC. The statutory requirement for HMRC to refer su...
Revenue and Customs: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HMRC has undertaken, or plans to undertake, any review of enforcement actions, civil penalties or criminal proceedings that may have been affected by concerns regarding the reliability, authorisation, proven
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
Evidence gathering within HMRC criminal investigations is subject to strict legal and procedural requirements as set out in legislation and related Codes of Practice and is in line with the standards expected across the Criminal Justice System.Decisions t...
Early day motions
| 18 May 2026 | Burnhope Miners' Gala Centenary Celebration | 13 sig. |
| 11 Feb 2026 | 117th anniversary of the West Stanley Pit Disaster | 15 sig. |
| 2 Feb 2026 | Elections in Myanmar | 11 sig. |
| 25 Nov 2025 | John Caulfield, Headway UK Outstanding Contribution Award finalist | 3 sig. |
| 4 Nov 2025 | 1,900th anniversary of Chester-le-Street | 10 sig. |
| 27 Oct 2025 | Treatment of Professor Michael Ben-Gad | 7 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
6 Jul 2026 Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems
I add to the tributes to Sir George Howarth. All of us who served with him on the Labour party’s national executive committee very much admired his courage in taking on and rooting out antisemitism. I welcome the success of our forces i…
30 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
I am particularly concerned about missile and drone threats to the UK, so I welcome the £790 million in the DIP for additional air and missile defence capabilities. Could the Secretary of State give a little more detail about what addition…
29 Jun 2026 Supporting British Pensioners
Can the Minister set out what plans he has to make sure that today’s workers—tomorrow’s pensioners—enjoy a decent retirement?
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
I will come to the achievements that this Government have already made in a minute—I thank my hon. Friend for urging me to get on with that—but let me talk about the threat first. The era when taxpayers in Missouri or Virginia paid for …
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
I am grateful for the opportunity to make the case once again for a sustained uplift in defence spending, as I have done at every opportunity in this place. I feel quite humbled to follow the gallant Members who have spoken: the right hon.…
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
As he comes to his conclusion, I invite the hon. Gentleman to take the opportunity to express his specific regret for the role that the Liberal Democrats played in the coalition Government in slowing down the nuclear continuous at-sea det…
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
Will the hon. Gentleman accept that welfare is only part of the story when it comes to where we might need to find the money? It would provide valuable revenue resource, but much of what we are talking about is an equipment programme that …
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
My understanding is that the recommendations in the SDR that do not require financial investment—changes of doctrine or stance or the deployment of existing forces—have been implemented. It is the defence investment plan that we are waitin…
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
Is the strategy not in the strategic defence review that was published last year? I remember reading it, and copies were available from the Vote Office. I would recommend that the hon. Gentleman has a look at the SDR, because it sets out w…
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
The Bill is perhaps one of the most constitutionally significant Bills that Parliament regularly debates, as it renews the mandate for a standing Army on a five-yearly basis. It has therefore been a privilege to serve on the Select Committ…
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill
I pay tribute to the previous Security Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley North (Dan Jarvis), for his tireless work to get us to this position, debating a much-needed Bill to tackle the state threats we face. As our new…
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
I have been campaigning alongside healthcare professionals who are concerned about risks arising from the unsafe handling of hazardous medicinal products. The BBC broadcast footage last month inadvertently showing a nurse handling a poten…
10 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
Does my hon. Friend agree that the decision taken early in this Parliament to halve the overseas aid budget and put that into defence shows that this Labour Government are prepared to take the tough political decisions needed to fund rearm…
10 Jun 2026 Myanmar: Human Rights
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way as he is beginning to make a very cogent case about the human rights abuses happening in Myanmar. I intervene because he raised the issue of airstrikes. Since the last sanctions were imposed …
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
It has been a pleasure to serve on the Select Committee set up to scrutinise this important legislation, which, as Members will know, renews our mandate for a standing Army and takes important strides on the covenant, service housing and s…
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
So that I can understand, could the hon. Gentleman explain slightly more carefully why he is proposing to remove the choice that the victim has? They can say which of the two systems—the service justice system or the civilian justice syste…
23 Apr 2026 Allied Health Professionals
I declare an interest as a member of the all-party parliamentary group on allied health professionals. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Sonia Kumar) on initially securing this important debate before her well-deserved promotio…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Armed Forces Commissioner Bill 4 Dec 2024 – 12 Dec 2024
Elections contested
- Castle Point 5 May 2005
- Aldershot 7 Jun 2001
Expenses
Contact & offices
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Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Luke Akehurst, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Luke Akehurst?
Luke Akehurst is a Member of Parliament representing North Durham in the House of Commons. See Luke Akehurst's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Luke Akehurst represent?
Luke Akehurst sits as Labour. See Luke Akehurst's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Luke Akehurst represent?
Luke Akehurst is the Member of Parliament for North Durham. See Luke Akehurst's official Parliament profile.
How long has Luke Akehurst been an MP?
Luke Akehurst has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Luke Akehurst's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Luke Akehurst?
Luke Akehurst has 8 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Luke Akehurst's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.