Member of Parliament
Chris McDonald
Labour MP for Stockton North
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)·Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
At a glanceChris McDonald is a Labour MP for Stockton North, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They currently serve as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). They have cast 449 votes in Commons divisions (78% attendance), tabled 9 written questions and registered 6 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Chris McDonald did not vote in 125. 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 posts of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade).
Current roles
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) Government post · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero since 11 Sep 2025
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) Government post · Department for Business and Trade since 11 Sep 2025
- Stockton North 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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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 440 of 440 shared votes
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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 431 of 431 shared votes
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Lola McEvoy
Labour
100.0% · 430 of 430 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 422 of 422 shared votes
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Paul Waugh
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 421 of 421 shared votes
Votes least like
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 231 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 265 shared votes
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David Davis
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 226 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
1.3% · 3 of 240 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
1.4% · 4 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.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Employment and earnings1
- Editor - Millennium Steel Publishing (registered 3 Aug 2024)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments1
- Payment expected for services on 14 December 2025 - £3,000.00 (registered 14 Dec 2025)
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP1
- GMB Union - £2,000.00 (registered 27 Mar 2026)
Miscellaneous3
- Professor in Practice at the Durham University Business School. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 Sep 2025)
- Professional registration with the Engineering Council as a Chartered Engineer. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Trustee of the Redhills CIO Charity based in Durham. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Terrorism: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his oral contribution of 26 February 2025, Official Report, column 765 and the judgment in R v Adams (Appellant) (Northern Ireland) [2020] UKSC 19, what steps he is taking to address th
Answer · 1 Jul 2025
The main issue here is the application of the Carltona principle in the context of ICOs. The previous Government’s attempt to address this following the 2020 Supreme Court judgment in Adams has been found by the Northern Ireland courts to be unlawful and ...
Infrastructure: Seas and Oceans
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to protect critical undersea infrastructure.
Answer · 19 May 2025
Cables and pipelines are as vital for our economy as factories and power stations.This Government is increasing defence spending to keep Britain safe at home and secure abroad. And that includes investing in RFA Proteus to protect our undersea cables.
India: Pakistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage India to meet its obligations under the Indus Waters Treaty.
Answer · 20 May 2025
The UK is aware that the Government of India has placed the Indus Water Treaty into abeyance due to ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. It is critical for all countries and international partners to work together to ensure the long-term sustainab...
Offensive Weapons: Prosecutions
To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of cases involving the use of offensive weapons.
Answer · 12 May 2025
This Government’s priority is to keep our streets safe, that is why we have committed to halve knife crime in a decade as part of our Safer Streets Mission. As well as committing to more police officers and police community support officers on our streets...
Disabled Facilities Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the maximum application amount for the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Answer · 9 Jan 2025
We are giving older and disabled people more independence in their own homes through an immediate in-year uplift to the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) of £86 million in 2024/25. This increase will provide approximately 7,800 additional home adaptations. ...
Minerals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the (a) effectiveness and (b) extent of the UK's list of critical minerals and the list used by (a) the European Union and (ii) other jurisdictions.
Answer · 4 Sep 2024
The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC), sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade, will publish an updated assessment of the criticality of over 80 candidate materials, later this year. This assessment is focused on the UK's circumstanc...
Minerals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to review the list of critical minerals; what criteria he plans to use to assess which materials will be included; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including c
Answer · 4 Sep 2024
The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC), sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade, is currently undertaking an updated criticality assessment, with the results to be released later this year. The methodology for this assessment can be f...
National Wealth Fund
What progress she has made with Cabinet colleagues on establishing a National Wealth Fund.
Answer · 3 Sep 2024
The government is working at pace to establish the national wealth fund which is critical to our growth and green energy missions. It will crowd in investment from the private sector into the industries of the future and create jobs across the country. Th...
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
I have listened carefully to the shadow Secretary of State’s remarks and those from the shadow Minister, and I will address them in a moment. I am grateful for the support of the Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty’s Household, my hon. Friend …
14 Jul 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
It is a pleasure to be back in the House today to see through the final stages of this Bill. The Government support all the Lords amendments before us. I wish to pay tribute to my colleague Minister Leong for so expertly guiding the Bil…
14 Jul 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
That is exactly the reason we published our clean energy jobs plan, which identifies the demand for clean energy jobs in different parts of the country. We have also invested, through our clean energy technical excellence colleges in diffe…
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
My hon. Friend knows how eagerly I am anticipating the return of tin production in Cornwall—I want it just as much as him and his colleagues. I would be happy to meet him to see how South Crofty and the rest of the Cornish industry can ben…
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
British businesses were suffering from high energy costs as a direct result of the previous Government’s policy to tie us to fossil fuels. The things that we have done—lifting the onshore wind ban, investing in offshore wind and rolling ou…
7 Jul 2026 Small Modular Reactors: Jobs
As the hon. Gentleman knows, I know Dounreay, Reay and the north-east of Scotland very well for personal and family reasons, and I also know how the local community relied on very good jobs at the power station for so long. This Government…
7 Jul 2026 Small Modular Reactors: Jobs
I agree with my hon. Friend, as do Great British Energy Nuclear, which has set a 70% target, and Rolls-Royce. Although we understand that these great export products, when built abroad, will necessarily have some overseas content, we need …
7 Jul 2026 Small Modular Reactors: Jobs
Great British Energy Nuclear’s SMR project could support around 3,000 peak construction jobs and many thousands more across the supply chain. As I saw for myself when I visited Rolls-Royce recently, the company and Great British Energy Nu…
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
I will not detain Members for very much longer. Earlier, the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) mentioned the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the many great things he did, one of which was his extre…
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point. The Trade Remedies Authority recently took some steps to try to speed up and reduce the cost of the process, but I understand that it is particularly difficult in a sector such as ceramics, in which…
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
I will allow one more intervention.
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
I will continue, but I will address a point that the right hon. Gentleman raised. He focused on the parts of the sector that are unable to electrify, which I am also very concerned about. Larger brick kilns and some sanitaryware items, whi…
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
My hon. Friend put it exactly right. We need to take both capital and operating costs into account. Fundamentally, the issue comes down to a belief or view—or, in my case, looking at the economic evidence and corporate finance. Is it possi…
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
This replays some of the conversations we have had on the Floor of the House. Ultimately, it is important to remember that the prices we are quoting take into account both the capital and operating costs. Our existing gas fleet would also …
6 Jul 2026 Ceramics Industry
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank everybody who has contributed to the debate. I am sure that those observing from the Public Gallery will have seen that there is huge support in Parliament for the cer…
22 Jun 2026 British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
I am extremely pleased that my hon. Friend has raised that issue, because I know that it concerns members of, particularly, the mineworkers’ pension scheme and people in those communities. I want to reassure members of the mineworkers’ p…
22 Jun 2026 British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Like my hon. Friend, I sincerely hope that these changes will permanently right the wrongs. It is important that we think carefully about moving as much money as possible out of the scheme, but also ensuring that there are sufficient funds…
22 Jun 2026 British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Yes, I will say more about the work I am doing with the trustees and the timing, as my hon. Friend rightly requests. The Government are implementing the recommendations of the BEIS Committee report from 2021 in respect of the British Coal …
22 Jun 2026 British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
My hon. Friend is right to raise this issue, and it fits very much with the point I was making about the age profile. I assure her that I am acutely aware of how many miners, miners’ widows and other coal workers are dying every day and ev…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Great British Energy Bill 11 Sep 2024 – 15 Oct 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Chris McDonald, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Chris McDonald?
Chris McDonald is a Member of Parliament representing Stockton North in the House of Commons. See Chris McDonald's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Chris McDonald represent?
Chris McDonald sits as Labour. See Chris McDonald's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Chris McDonald represent?
Chris McDonald is the Member of Parliament for Stockton North. See Chris McDonald's official Parliament profile.
How long has Chris McDonald been an MP?
Chris McDonald has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Chris McDonald's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Chris McDonald?
Chris McDonald has 6 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Chris McDonald's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.