Portrait of Luke Myer

Member of Parliament

Luke Myer

Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

At a glanceLuke Myer is a Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 503 votes in Commons divisions (87% attendance), tabled 85 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.

Votes cast503
Attendance87%
Voted Aye251
Voted No252
Voted with party99.6%
Rebellions2

Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Luke Myer did not vote in 72. 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.

Biographyfrom Parliament
Luke Myer is the Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.
Current roles4 held
  • Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] Committee since 24 Jun 2025
  • Ecclesiastical Committee Committee since 5 Nov 2024
  • Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
  • Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting recordlatest 15 shown
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 Aye
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots Aye
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Aye
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 Aye
8 Jul 2026 Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 Aye
8 Jul 2026 Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 Aye
1 Jul 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 No
1 Jul 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 No
1 Jul 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 No
1 Jul 2026 Draft Employment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 Aye
1 Jul 2026 Draft Employment Tribunals Extension of Jurisdiction (England and Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026 Aye

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Register of financial interests2 entries

From the official Register; shown as registered.

Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources2
  • Steve Gibson - £1,250.00 (registered 8 Jun 2026)
  • Steve Gibson - £250.00 (registered 8 Jun 2026)

Source: Register of Interests on parliament.uk.

Written questions85 tabled
Written question 16 Jul 2026 · Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what discussions he has had with the Competition and Markets Authority on the proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affi

Awaiting an answer from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade .

NHS: Staff 1 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the ratio of nurses and doctors is in the (a) North and (b) South of England.

Answer · 15 Jul 2026

NHS England publishes monthly statistics showing the size and make up of staff employed in the National Health Service in England, and these include the number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors and nurses employed by NHS trusts and integrated care boa...

Breakfast Clubs: Tees Valley 17 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total value of departmental expenditure on breakfast clubs in the Tees Valley region in each of the financial years (a) 2023/24, (b) 2024/25, and (c) 2025/26; and pr

Answer · 23 Jun 2026

The department is committed to delivering a free breakfast club in every state-funded school with primary-aged pupils in England. There are 34 schools already on the programme within the Tees Valley region.Early adopter schools opened free breakfast clubs...

Free School Meals: Tees Valley 17 Jun 2026 · Department for Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in the Tees Valley region were eligible for free school meals in 2023/24 and in 2025/26; how many are expected to be eligible in 2026/27; and what the estimated total value of support provided

Awaiting an answer from the Department for Education.

Video Games 17 Jun 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade and the Cabinet Office on the proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Sil

Answer · 24 Jun 2026

As set out in the Creative Industries Sector Plan, the Government is committed to supporting the growth of the UK video games sector. In April this year we launched the £30 million Games Growth Package, doubling funding to invest in UK games businesses an...

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust 16 Jun 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on appointing a Chair to the statutory public inquiry into Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; and what steps he is taking to ensure that t

Answer · 30 Jun 2026

The Department is fully committed to setting up the Statutory Public Inquiry into the serious harms that have taken place at the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.The Department has begun work to set up the inquiry, the Inquiry Secretary is ...

Ammonia: Production 10 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential role of low-carbon domestic ammonia production in improving the UK's energy security and industrial resilience.

Answer · 19 Jun 2026

Low carbon ammonia could play a role in reaching net zero as part of a diversified energy mix, as a flexible energy carrier or fuel. Ammonia can also be used as an industrial feedstock for essential products such as fertiliser. However, the scale of futur...

Hydrogen 10 Jun 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the timetable is for the completion of the Second Hydrogen Allocation Round and the announcement of successful projects.

Answer · 19 Jun 2026

The next stage of the Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 process is the Invite to Offer stage, and we are working hard across government to begin this as soon as possible. We will be in touch with projects when this commences. We understand that many projects ar...

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Early day motions14 tabled
Speeches in the chamber235 on record

16 Jul 2026   British Steel

Teessiders know what it looks like when Governments stand back and fail to protect steel jobs, so on behalf of the British steelworkers in my constituency who work at Special Profiles in Skinningrove and Teesside Beam Mill at Lackenby, I t…

16 Jul 2026   Maritime Sector

Teesside is home to a world-leading maritime industry and an excellent further education landscape. However, one issue that the Tees maritime cluster has identified is a lack of join-up between the two and the fact that there are insuffici…

15 Jul 2026   Iran

I wish to push the Minister on the point about social media disinformation. This is one of the biggest issues affecting our democracy, and western democracies around the world, when it comes to the threat from not only Iran but other hosti…

15 Jul 2026   Iran

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that point, and he is absolutely right. This issue was raised by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Birmingham Selly Oak (Al Carns), who spoke about the threat of social media disinformati…

14 Jul 2026   Public Office (Accountability) Bill

It is a pleasure to follow my constituency neighbour and hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (Andy McDonald). I share his views about the need for action on the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys inquiry. When I first con…

13 Jul 2026   Immigration and Asylum Bill

Will the Minister give way?

13 Jul 2026   Police Officer Numbers

I welcome the 48 new neighbourhood officers and policy community support officers who have joined Cleveland police in the last year, but I want to see an overhaul of the national police funding formula to support the Cleveland area. The Po…

13 Jul 2026   Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation

The hon. Member for Woking (Mr Forster) made a point about the Dublin agreement and its impact on increased arrivals. I think that he was right to make that point, but wrong to associate it with the EU, as countries such as Norway and Icel…

8 Jul 2026   Greenhouse Gas Removals Sector

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that creating industrial clusters is the best route to bringing in some of the new companies that look to scale up and invest? I recently met UnionDAC, which is looking to invest in Teesside. That is partly be…

8 Jul 2026   Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy

The Teesside region has the potential to bring nationally significant investment in new AI data centre infrastructure. We welcome that investment and we are open for business, but will the Minister commit to meet colleagues at the Ministry…

24 Jun 2026   Farming Road Map and Profitability Review

We welcome the focus in the road map on fertiliser resilience and getting away from volatile global fertiliser markets. North Yorkshire is home to the world’s only supply of polyhalite, a highly effective low-carbon fertiliser. Will Minist…

24 Jun 2026   Media Green Paper

Right now, Britain’s adversaries around the world are investing heavily in disinformation designed to disrupt democracies across the west; we are seeing the impact in this country as well. I welcome the regime set out to promote truthful c…

24 Jun 2026   North Sea Oil and Gas

The Minister knows that I am a fierce champion for the new clean power jobs that we are getting on Teesside. We are seeing some of those opportunities scaling up now, but we cannot see mass unemployment in the offshore industry while those…

17 Jun 2026   High Street Shops: Illicit Activity

It is a pleasure to intervene on the hon. Gentleman for a change. I have been raising similar issues with Middlesbrough council about Middlesbrough town centre. I am assured that the council is bringing forward a plan soon. Does the hon. G…

16 Jun 2026   Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill

My part of the world has already had a hard lesson in what a serious cyber-attack can do, and I thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson, the hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted (Victoria Collins), for mentioning it. In 2020, Redcar a…

10 Jun 2026   Defence Investment Plan

Teesside airport is benefiting from a £173 million MOD contract for Draken. Looking at that contract and at the others the Minister has set out, I think it is fair to say that the Department is not waiting for the defence investment plan t…

10 Jun 2026   Draft Clean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

My understanding is that there are no plans to introduce such zones in either Middlesbrough or Redcar and Cleveland, but is the Minister able to confirm that for the record?

9 Jun 2026   Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

I thank the Minister for giving way again; he is being very generous. He has made a couple of references to the Teesside site, both to the crash closure in 2015 and to the remediation of the land. With that land having now been remediated,…

9 Jun 2026   Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

The Minister is right in what he says about trade. On amendment 6, however, industry is concerned that phasing out free allowances before the new CBAM is fully tested risks exposing UK industry to carbon leakage. Does he agree that the new…

9 Jun 2026   Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill

I have seen in our all-party parliamentary group on steel and metals-related industries how my hon. Friend is such a tenacious and tireless champion for her part of the world and the steelworkers in it. She mentioned defence earlier in her…

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Expenses£25,285 · 2025/26
Accommodation£13,407
Office Costs£11,877

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Frequently asked questions

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Who is Luke Myer?

Luke Myer is a Member of Parliament representing Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland in the House of Commons. See Luke Myer's official Parliament profile.

Which party does Luke Myer represent?

Luke Myer sits as Labour. See Luke Myer's official Parliament profile.

Which constituency does Luke Myer represent?

Luke Myer is the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. See Luke Myer's official Parliament profile.

How long has Luke Myer been an MP?

Luke Myer has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Luke Myer's official Parliament profile.

What registered interests are listed for Luke Myer?

Luke Myer has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Luke Myer's official Parliament profile.

Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.