At a glanceMichael Payne is a Labour MP for Gedling, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 442 votes in Commons divisions (77% attendance), tabled 33 written questions and registered 11 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Michael Payne did not vote in 133. 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
- Public Accounts Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Gedling 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% · 431 of 431 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 427 of 427 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 425 of 425 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 424 of 424 shared votes
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Sir Mark Tami
Labour
100.0% · 423 of 423 shared votes
Votes least like
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Joy Morrissey
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 273 shared votes
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Graham Stuart
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 271 shared votes
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Sir Jeremy Wright
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 237 shared votes
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David Mundell
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 236 shared votes
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Dame Karen Bradley
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 232 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 UK3
- International visit to France between 30 April 2026 and 04 May 2026 (registered 31 May 2026)
- International visit to Poland between 02 November 2025 and 04 November 2025 (registered 30 Nov 2025)
- International visit to Kenya between 22 July 2025 and 25 July 2025 (registered 11 Aug 2025)
Miscellaneous8
- Gedling Borough Councillor, (unpaid since 10 October 2024 and previously registered under Category 1). (registered 2 Aug 2024)
- A member of Nottingham Playhouse Strategic Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 4 Aug 2024)
- Membership Secretary of Arnold Branch Labour Party. (registered 4 Aug 2024)
- LGBT+ Officer of Gedling Constituency Labour Party. (registered 4 Aug 2024)
- A member of the Gedling UK Shared Prosperity Fund Local Partnership Group. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Chair of Friends of Church Lane & St. Mary's Play Park & Recreation Ground. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Treasurer of St. Mary's Community Kitchen in Arnold. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- A member of the Carlton Town Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
Written questions
Adoption: Counselling
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of introducing transitional or exceptional arrangements to allow adoptive families to continue working with appropriately qualified, non-Ofsted registere
Answer · 2 Jun 2026
Under the Care Standards Act 2000, organisations that undertake work to support adopted children, or children who are being prepared for adoption, need to register with Ofsted as an adoption support agency. This is to ensure that providers are suitable an...
Armed Forces: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve military housing.
Answer · 16 Mar 2026
The last government had 14 years to fix Defence family housing and failed, delivering instead record low levels of satisfaction. We reversed the disastrous privatisation of military housing. And our landmark £9 billion housing strategy will renew or repai...
Addictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to include addiction or substance use disorder within the statutory definition of a mental disorder for the purposes of the Mental Health Act.
Answer · 19 Mar 2026
The Mental Health Act 1983, specifically Section 1, subsection 3, states that “Dependence on alcohol or drugs is not considered to be a disorder or disability of the mind” for the purposes of the act, and we did not amend this in the Mental Health Act 202...
Addictions: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what processes are in place to ensure that findings from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) involving addiction related deaths are embedded consistently in national guidance, NHS workforce training,
Answer · 12 Mar 2026
The Government takes the findings from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs), including those where substance dependence was a feature in deaths very seriously, and expects them to inform practice, guidance, and commissioning at both a local and national leve...
Retail Trade: Urban Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he has taken to support local high streets.
Answer · 12 Dec 2025
This government is putting high streets at the heart of economic renewal through our Small and Medium Sized Business Plan and MHCLG's £5 billion Pride in Place programme which will support areas in both of my Honourable Friends' constituencies.At Budget, ...
General Practitioners: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the 7.4 per cent global sum uplift for 2024-25 will sufficiently cover the accepted recommendation of a 6 per cent pay rise for GP partners and salaried staff
Answer · 7 Jul 2025
The Government looks to the independent pay review bodies for a pay recommendation for National Health Service staff, including both contractor and salaried general practitioners (GPs). They consider a range of evidence from organisations including the Go...
Housing: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending building regulations to require future accessible and adaptable dwelling to include (a) step-free entrances and
Answer · 26 Mar 2025
The government recognizes the importance of ensuring that new housing is accessible and adaptable to meet the diverse needs of individuals throughout their lives. Accessibility standards for homes are governed by Part M of the Building Regulations 2010, w...
Neurodiversity: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the waiting times for diagnosis of (a) autism and (b) ADHD for children and young people.
Answer · 27 Mar 2025
It is the responsibility of the integrated care board (ICBs) to make available appropriate provision to meet the health and care needs of their local population, including autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessments, in line wit...
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
—Michael Payne. I simply seek to correct the record. I should have, when I made a contribution in the statement, drawn attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a serving Gedling borough councillor. I seek…
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
The Secretary of State and I have known each other a long time—we served in local government together—and he knows that I am as passionate as he is about bringing power back closer to people, but I have to say to him, in all honesty, that …
1 Jul 2026 Flood Insurance: Reform of Flood Re
I thank the Minister for her statement and for her clear passion for this work. I welcome the reforms to ensure that the Flood Re scheme remains sustainable and financially viable in the medium term, and the £25 cap on flood excess for con…
24 Jun 2026 Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
Today’s publication of Donna Ockenden’s report into maternity services in Nottinghamshire is a difficult and deeply emotional moment for families across our county and city. I want to place on the record my thanks to Donna Ockenden and her…
8 Jun 2026 Progression of Bills through Parliament
My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that wherever people stand on assisted dying, the country is reasonably entitled to expect that after 16 days—more than 75 hours—of debate, the House of Lords should have come to …
17 Mar 2026 Productivity and Economic Growth: East Midlands
Does the shadow Minister also regret the fact that between 2010-11 and 2019-20 local authority spending in the east midlands dropped by 22.6%, on the previous Government’s watch?
17 Mar 2026 Productivity and Economic Growth: East Midlands
I thank my hon. Friend for securing the debate. Does he agree that one way to redress the historical imbalance in transport spending is for a green light to be given to the fourth Trent crossing, which would link my constituency to his bea…
16 Mar 2026 GP Contract
I recently met those from Stenhouse medical practice in Arnold. They talked to me about the need to invest in primary care to alleviate pressure on our hospitals. May I take this opportunity to thank all GPs and GP staff across Gedling? Wi…
16 Mar 2026 Strait of Hormuz
The Minister will be aware that alongside the escalation of closing the strait, the repressive regime in Iran continues to target female activists relentlessly. Will he ensure that the work being spearheaded by the Foreign Secretary in the…
16 Mar 2026 Topical Questions
In just 18 months this Government have ended the disastrous 1996 Tory privatisation of military housing, which cost the taxpayer billions of pounds. We have repaired 1,000 military homes in the poorest condition ahead of schedule, and we h…
10 Feb 2026 Sherwood Forest: Tourism
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) on securing this important debate and the phenomenal leadership that she has shown in establishing S…
22 Jan 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
The Secretary of State’s Department issued very clear guidance on 6 February last year, which said that “we expect local leaders to engage their Members of Parliament, and to ensure there is wide engagement with local partners and stake…
15 Jan 2026 Business of the House
In communities such as Netherfield and Daybrook in my constituency, there has been an unchecked rise in the number of houses in multiple occupation, which is undermining community cohesion and local services, and affecting housing availabi…
11 Dec 2025 Topical Questions
T5. I recently visited Boutique Flowers on Carlton Hill in Gedling, which is a brilliant local business owned by Sally and Tina. They told me that they are losing thousands of pounds as a result of fraudulent chargebacks, and many small …
30 Oct 2025 Business of the House
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Arnold u3a, which is brilliantly chaired by Hazel Ward and provides excellent activities for more than 500 members. Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating all the u3a groups across Ge…
30 Oct 2025 Topical Questions
T3. Luxfer Gas Cylinders in my constituency employs more than 200 people and is a key supplier to hydrogen allocation round 1 projects. It wants to expand to become the UK’s only manufacturer of high pressure hydrogen cylinders for hydro…
13 Oct 2025 Baby Loss
My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. In thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh) for her leadership today, I want to say that her dad would have been so incredibly proud to sit in the Gallery today to see h…
13 Oct 2025 Baby Loss
I rise, in Baby Loss Awareness Week, to pay tribute to the far too many families in Gedling and Nottinghamshire who have suffered the devastating loss of their babies in circumstances that were entirely avoidable. They placed their trust i…
11 Sep 2025 Business of the House
I welcome my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House to his place. I recently had the privilege of visiting Lambley reed pond. Will my right hon. Friend join me in thanking and paying tribute to Bonnie Bramwell and all those on the La…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 12 Feb 2025 – 18 Mar 2025
Elections contested
- Newark 5 Jun 2014
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Michael Payne, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Michael Payne?
Michael Payne is a Member of Parliament representing Gedling in the House of Commons. See Michael Payne's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Michael Payne represent?
Michael Payne sits as Labour. See Michael Payne's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Michael Payne represent?
Michael Payne is the Member of Parliament for Gedling. See Michael Payne's official Parliament profile.
How long has Michael Payne been an MP?
Michael Payne has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Michael Payne's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Michael Payne?
Michael Payne has 11 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Michael Payne's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.