At a glanceSteve Witherden is a Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 462 votes in Commons divisions (80% attendance), tabled 97 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Steve Witherden did not vote in 113. 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
- Welsh Affairs Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Paula Barker
Labour
100.0% · 400 of 400 shared votes
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Tracy Gilbert
Labour
100.0% · 391 of 391 shared votes
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Ms Stella Creasy
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 388 of 388 shared votes
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Dr Marie Tidball
Labour
100.0% · 385 of 385 shared votes
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Lizzi Collinge
Labour
100.0% · 381 of 381 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mark Pritchard
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 249 shared votes
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Joy Morrissey
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 294 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 281 shared votes
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Sir John Whittingdale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 270 shared votes
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Sir Alec Shelbrooke
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 260 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 Cuba between 16 October 2025 and 21 October 2025 (registered 28 Apr 2026)
Miscellaneous1
- Negotiating Secretary NASUWT Wrexham Association. This is an unpaid role. (registered 1 Aug 2024)
Written questions
Homicide: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he will commit to publishing a clear timetable for closing the 10 year sentencing starting point gap between most domestic murders and other murders.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
On 30 June, the Deputy Prime Minister announced the Government’s intention to introduce a new 25-year sentencing starting point for domestic murders, which will apply to offenders who murder their current or former intimate partner. This change can be imp...
Craig Foreman and Lindsay Foreman
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to raise the case of Lindsay and Craig Foreman with her US counterpart.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
As the Foreign Secretary has said, Craig and Lindsay's detention in Iran is completely appalling and unjustified. We regularly engage likeminded states on issues of mutual interest, including the detention of our nationals abroad.
Arms Trade: United Arab Emirates
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessments he has made of the potential risk that arms exports licensed by the UK Government to the United Arab Emirates might be diverted and used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
We take very seriously any allegations of UK military equipment ending up in Sudan in breach of the UK arms embargo. However, after extensive assessment, we have found no evidence of UK weapons or ammunition being used in Sudan.We keep all our licensing d...
United Arab Emirates: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps does her Department take to protect against the diversion of arms exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in Sudan.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 8 June to Question 4500.
United Arab Emirates: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment has her Department made of the potential for the diversion of UK arms exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in Sudan.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 8 June to Question 4500.
Animal Products: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the list of species the Department considers to be of conservation concern under the proposed legislation to ban imports of hunting trophies; and how the Department
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
This Government is committed to delivering on its manifesto commitment to ban the import of hunting trophies from species of conservation concern. Defra is continuing to engage with relevant stakeholders to help determine the most appropriate scope for a ...
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is any data on Welsh patients treated in England (a) held and (b) processed by Palantir.
Answer · 8 Jun 2026
The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information from different systems across the National Health Service into a single, secure environment. This allows staff to co-ordinate care better to improve outcomes for patients. The NHS FDP ...
Ruabon Station: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on providing step-free access at Ruabon station.
Answer · 2 Jun 2026
On 15 January, Ministers announced Ruabon station as one of 23 stations across Great Britain selected to progress to the next stage of the Access for All programme. The scheme will now move into detailed design, which is expected to be completed by Autumn...
Early day motions
| 18 May 2026 | US sanctions on Cuba | 84 sig. |
| 3 Feb 2026 | New US sanctions on Cuba | 117 sig. |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the Occupied West Bank | 31 sig. |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Two-child limit | 59 sig. |
| 4 Nov 2025 | Freezing of Local Housing Allowance | 50 sig. |
| 1 Sep 2025 | Oscar Mayer workers in Wrexham | 33 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I recognise the need for reform of our immigration system, but many of the measures in this Bill require further scrutiny. Existing legislation has long served as an important safeguard, ensuring that powers are exercised properly. The Bil…
1 Jul 2026 MPs’ Second Jobs: Prohibition
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Western. I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds East (Richard Burgon) for the campaigning work he has done over many years on this important issue. As Members of Parliament, we are …
24 Jun 2026 Farming: Financial Sustainability
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Turner. It was in this Chamber, on 28 January 2025, that I was the only Labour MP to speak out against the Government’s proposed changes to agricultural property relief. I did so in the kn…
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill
The hon. Member serves a similarly large and rural constituency to mine. Getting stations open in such areas is incredibly important, and I urge him to work closely with community groups, as I am sure he is already doing, so that what I am…
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill
The Bill is a necessary and long-overdue step towards bringing our railways back into public ownership. Great British Railways represents a real opportunity to build a railway that works in the interests of passengers and staff, rather tha…
8 Jun 2026 Cuba: Humanitarian Situation
As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Cuba, I refer the House to the APPG register. In September in Machynlleth, the Cuban ambassador and a Cuban doctor working in Birmingham addressed my constituents in Montgomeryshire on the …
2 Jun 2026 Clean Energy Transition: Supporting People in Work
As we face the second fossil fuel shock in half a decade, it is right that the Government are scaling up clean, home-grown renewable energy through the energy independence Bill. However, clean energy jobs are not yet being created at the p…
2 Jun 2026 Clean Energy Transition: Supporting People in Work
3. What steps he is taking to ensure the clean energy transition supports people in work.
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
Since the last King’s Speech, we have seen great steps forward under this Labour Government in their first parliamentary Session: the Employment Rights Act 2025, the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation; the Passenger Railway…
22 Apr 2026 Cost of Living
This month, the UK Labour Government formally lifted the two-child limit, benefiting nearly 70,000 children in Wales and 2,270 children in my constituency. I am enormously proud that Labour is lifting hundreds of thousands of children out …
22 Apr 2026 Cost of Living
3. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the cost of living in Wales.
21 Apr 2026 Gulf Conflict
While energy giants and Wall Street banks cash in on the war, ordinary people pay the price. In the first month of the US-led war with Iran alone, the world’s 100 largest oil and gas companies made more than $30 million an hour in unearned…
21 Apr 2026 Gulf Conflict
16. What steps her Department is taking with international counterparts to help achieve a lasting resolution to the conflict in the Gulf.
15 Apr 2026 Cost of Heating Oil
It will not surprise my hon. Friend that I agree wholeheartedly. With heating oil prices reaching levels similar to those in 2022 following the Ukraine war, our Government have been far quicker to react than the previous Conservative Go…
15 Apr 2026 Cost of Heating Oil
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Steff Aquarone) for securing this essential debate. The escalation of conflict arising from Donald Trump’s war on Iran and the con…
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill
I shall keep my remarks brief. I welcome the vast majority of this Bill, but given the serious implications for our fundamental rights, Lords amendment 312 on cumulative disruption should be given adequate time to be properly scrutinised a…
26 Mar 2026 Passenger Rail Services
In January, I was delighted to get confirmation that Ruabon station had progressed to the next stage of the Access for All programme. It is an absolute disgrace that disabled people and young mothers with prams can access the northbound pl…
23 Mar 2026 Rail Connections to London: Rural Towns
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way when she is making such an excellent and passionate speech. I hope the WSMR bid will succeed, as it would benefit my constituents in Powys and in Wrexham. Does she agree with me that the proposal would…
18 Mar 2026 Engagements
Q10. I spent 20 years as a secondary school teacher in Wales. We worked hard. Labour has given them the biggest upgrade of rights in a generation—rights that millions of us fought hard to win—but the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage…
17 Mar 2026 Right to Protest
Proposals to restrict the right to protest based on “cumulative disruption” are causing great concern. It is absurd that a march by an anti-racist group one week could be blocked because an anti-abortion march occurred the week before, and…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
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House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
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Who is Steve Witherden?
Steve Witherden is a Member of Parliament representing Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr in the House of Commons. See Steve Witherden's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Steve Witherden represent?
Steve Witherden sits as Labour. See Steve Witherden's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Steve Witherden represent?
Steve Witherden is the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr. See Steve Witherden's official Parliament profile.
How long has Steve Witherden been an MP?
Steve Witherden has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Steve Witherden's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Steve Witherden?
Steve Witherden has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Steve Witherden's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.