At a glanceTracy Gilbert is a Labour MP for Edinburgh North and Leith, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 445 votes in Commons divisions (77% attendance) and tabled 129 written questions.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Tracy Gilbert did not vote in 130. 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
- Rare Cancers Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee since 9 Jun 2025
- International Development Committee Committee since 24 Mar 2025
- Procedure Committee Committee since 4 Nov 2024
- Edinburgh North and Leith 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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Steve Witherden
Labour
100.0% · 391 of 391 shared votes
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Clive Efford
Labour
100.0% · 347 of 347 shared votes
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Peter Dowd
Labour
100.0% · 334 of 334 shared votes
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Chris Bloore
Labour
100.0% · 328 of 328 shared votes
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Irene Campbell
Labour
99.7% · 361 of 362 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 259 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 244 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 295 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
1.1% · 3 of 267 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
1.1% · 2 of 187 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.
Written questions
Carbon Emissions: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help increase skills in low carbon sectors in Edinburgh.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
As my Honourable Friend will be well aware, earlier this year we unlocked £25 million of seed capital for the Forth Green Freeport to create tens of thousands of jobs in clean energy and manufacturing.Already we are seeing the benefits in Edinburgh. The P...
Prostitution: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the funding her Department has provided to law enforcement agencies for the purpose of purchasing software licenses to obtain and analyse data from websites advertising p
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Government recognises that online platforms are significant enablers of sexual exploitation. They must be responsible and held accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. Vic...
Exploitation: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the funding her Department has provided to the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX) for its referral pathway with Vivastreet for each year it has been in exis
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Government recognises that online platforms are significant enablers of sexual exploitation. They must be responsible and held accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. Vic...
Prostitution: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in levels of women who are being advertised for prostitution on websites advertising prostitution in the UK.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Government recognises that online platforms are significant enablers of sexual exploitation. They must be responsible and held accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. Vic...
Adult Services Website Working Group
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the agenda, minutes and any other meeting papers of the Adult Services Website Working Group for each year it has operated.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Government recognises that online platforms are significant enablers of sexual exploitation. They must be responsible and held accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. Vic...
Online Enablers Working Group: Membership
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the membership is of the Adult Services Website Working Group.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Government recognises that online platforms are significant enablers of sexual exploitation. They must be responsible and held accountable for content on their sites, including taking proactive steps to prevent their sites being used by criminals. Vic...
Israel: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many export licenses for arms and defensive equipment between the UK and Israel are currently active.
Answer · 19 Jun 2026
The UK Government published specific information relating to export licensing to Israel on 20 April 2026, covering extant export licences on 28 February 2026. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-licensing-management-information-for-...
Palestine: Defence Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether UK-produced arms are being used in a) the West Bank and b) the Gaza strip.
Answer · 19 Jun 2026
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 18 September 2025 to Question 72500. The latest information on Israel export licences has since been updated on 20 April 2026 and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/export-control-l...
Early day motions
| 10 Jun 2026 | Leith Walk Primary School 150th birthday | 6 sig. |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Anne Munro retires after 47 years from Pilmeny Development Project | 5 sig. |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Memorial for Amrit and Saroj Lal | 6 sig. |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Lisa Petrie's response to her son's fatal stabbing | 8 sig. |
| 14 Oct 2025 | UN Special Rapporteur Report on Violence Against Women and Girls in the context of surrogacy | 9 sig. |
| 4 Nov 2024 | 10th Annual Diwali Celebration in Edinburgh | 5 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
2 Jul 2026 Historical Forced Adoption
As an adopted person born in 1972, I welcome the Prime Minister’s statement today. I have no idea if my birth mother felt forced to have me adopted, but I do know that prior to the birth, she was in a Church of Scotland mother and baby hom…
2 Jul 2026 Business of the House
More than 70 organisations and novelist Irvine Welsh are backing the community-led bid for Leith to become the first ever UK town of culture. Can my right hon. Friend put in a word for Leith with Ministers at the Department for Culture, Me…
2 Jun 2026 Heat Networks
I thank my hon. Friend for his answer. May I also place on the record my thanks to him for coming to meet my constituents from Saltire Street and Saltire Square, and for listening to what they said about the long-running issues that they h…
2 Jun 2026 Heat Networks
14. What steps his Department is taking to regulate heat networks.
1 Jun 2026 Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
I welcome the clarity that the code brings for service providers, and I note, too, that Women’s Aid is just one of the organisations that has welcomed it. Can my hon. Friend confirm that the Supreme Court judgment and the code have not rev…
21 May 2026 Middle East
Although I welcome my hon. Friend’s statement, given all we have heard today, my constituents and I are concerned about the reported closure of the Conflict and Security Monitoring Project. I have seen at first hand how important its work …
21 May 2026 Middle East: Economic Response
I welcome the measures that my right hon. Friend has announced today, which will help ease the cost of living pressures on families in my constituency, and on its very many businesses and attractions—and in time for the Scottish school sum…
21 Apr 2026 Sex Trafficking: Scotland
I agree. While the reports have been very interesting, I fail to understand why that collaboration was ever allowed to take place. It would seem from all the evidence that collaborating with those pimping websites has not saved one woman f…
21 Apr 2026 Sex Trafficking: Scotland
I wholeheartedly agree. A recent report found that commercial sexual exploitation is so linked with organised crime that it could not be further underground. All of that is linked to violence against women and girls, and our Government ar…
21 Apr 2026 Sex Trafficking: Scotland
I wholly agree. In my Edinburgh North and Leith constituency, our local councils want to tackle some of these issues, which is very hard to do without funds. They also want to support and provide services for women who are trying to exit …
21 Apr 2026 Sex Trafficking: Scotland
I pay tribute to Ash Regan for her work and for bringing forward the unbuyable Bill. Women are not to be bought and paid for, and buying sex is not consent. The Scottish Government’s reasons for voting down the Bill were poor, and in their…
21 Apr 2026 Sex Trafficking: Scotland
I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of sex trafficking in Scotland. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I am proud to support a Labour Government who are committed to halving violence ag…
15 Apr 2026 Energy Prices
My constituents welcomed the fall in energy prices at the beginning of this month. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to reduce energy prices in Scotland is not to pursue more constitutional divides but to secure our energy …
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill
I thank my hon. Friend for reassuring us that these amendments have a timescale of 12 months. What are the Government doing behind the scenes to progress this work as quickly as possible? Can she outline the work that she has undertaken to…
14 Apr 2026 “For Women Scotland” Court Ruling: First Anniversary
Does the hon. Member recognise that women are a vulnerable group and that we make up half the population, yet we are still subject to more violence than any other group of people in society?
14 Apr 2026 “For Women Scotland” Court Ruling: First Anniversary
As a lesbian woman, I have often been misgendered. As a young person—a tomboy—that sort of thing did not bother me; I wore it as a badge of honour. I am very worried that we are talking about fitting women into stereotypes. Surely, in this…
14 Apr 2026 “For Women Scotland” Court Ruling: First Anniversary
Alice Sullivan has spoken a lot about identifying sex and gender. Does the hon. Member agree that sex and gender are not the same thing, and that if we are registering for a parkrun, another sporting event or anything else, we all know wha…
12 Mar 2026 Business of the House
I am proud to support the Government’s ambition to cut violence against women and girls, and a cross-Government approach is essential to delivering that. I am increasingly concerned that the Department for Work and Pensions is not recognis…
12 Mar 2026 Topical Questions
T3. I refer Members to my declaration of interest as a former employee of USDAW. The new rights of trade union access in the Employment Rights Act 2025 could be game changing, but there is a proposal to cap fines for breaking new rules …
10 Mar 2026 Northern Ireland Hospitality Sector: VAT
A number of hospitality businesses in my constituency have raised with me that the UK rate of VAT is much higher than it is in France and Germany. Will my hon. Friend ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to model the impact of VAT cuts…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Tracy Gilbert, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Tracy Gilbert?
Tracy Gilbert is a Member of Parliament representing Edinburgh North and Leith in the House of Commons. See Tracy Gilbert's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Tracy Gilbert represent?
Tracy Gilbert sits as Labour. See Tracy Gilbert's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Tracy Gilbert represent?
Tracy Gilbert is the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith. See Tracy Gilbert's official Parliament profile.
How long has Tracy Gilbert been an MP?
Tracy Gilbert has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Tracy Gilbert's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Tracy Gilbert?
Tracy Gilbert has no entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Tracy Gilbert's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 27 Jul 2026.