At a glanceMike Reader is a Labour MP for Northampton South, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 418 votes in Commons divisions (73% attendance), tabled 71 written questions and registered 13 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mike Reader did not vote in 156. 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
- Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Energy Security and Net Zero Committee Committee since 13 Jan 2025
- Northampton South 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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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 397 of 397 shared votes
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Lola McEvoy
Labour
100.0% · 387 of 387 shared votes
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Ben Goldsborough
Labour
100.0% · 361 of 361 shared votes
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
100.0% · 360 of 360 shared votes
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Naushabah Khan
Labour
100.0% · 342 of 342 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 251 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 237 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
1.1% · 3 of 263 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.2% · 3 of 249 shared votes
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David Davis
Conservative
1.4% · 3 of 218 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.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP1
- Homes for Britain Ltd - £2,155.00 (registered 26 Jan 2026)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources9
- Mace Consult Limited - £725.76 (registered 22 Jun 2026)
- Mace Consult Limited - £149.04 (registered 22 Apr 2026)
- Mace Consult Limited - £162.48 (registered 22 Apr 2026)
- Mace Consult Limited - £45.36 (registered 18 Dec 2025)
- SME4LABOUR LTD - £300.00 (registered 21 Nov 2025)
- Mace Consult Limited - £90.72 (registered 20 Nov 2025)
- The British Racing Drivers' Club Limited - £1,195.00 (registered 31 Jul 2025)
- Nutricia Limited - £540.00 (registered 31 Jul 2025)
- Mace Consult Limited - £575.04 (registered 31 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to Belgium between 26 October 2025 and 27 October 2025 (registered 21 Nov 2025)
- International visit to Bahrain between 02 May 2025 and 05 May 2025 (registered 14 Oct 2025)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Property in Rushden (registered 17 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Heating: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending 0% VAT relief to clean heating technologies such as heat batteries, including on initial costs, the number of households adopting low-carbon heating
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
The Government is supporting heat batteries by including them in the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, with a £2,500 grant to support homes that are not suitable for heat pumps. Heat batteries will become eligible once new product and installation standards are in p...
Heating: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending 0% VAT relief to clean heating technologies, including heat batteries.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
The Government is supporting heat batteries by including them in the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, with a £2,500 grant to support homes that are not suitable for heat pumps. Heat batteries will become eligible once new product and installation standards are in p...
Timber: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the quantity of (a) commercial forest timber and (b) waste wood products that will be needed to achieve the government’s target of 1.5million
Answer · 8 Jun 2026
We recognise the important role timber can play in supporting Net Zero, including through reducing embodied emissions in construction and storing carbon. The Government relaunched a more ambitious Timber in Construction Roadmap in February 2025 to increas...
Timber: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the extent to which imported timber will be used in future housing construction.
Answer · 8 Jun 2026
We recognise the important role timber can play in supporting Net Zero, including through reducing embodied emissions in construction and storing carbon. The Government relaunched a more ambitious Timber in Construction Roadmap in February 2025 to increas...
Timber: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the volume of structural timber required to meet the government’s housing delivery ambitions during this Parliament.
Answer · 8 Jun 2026
We recognise the important role timber can play in supporting Net Zero, including through reducing embodied emissions in construction and storing carbon. The Government relaunched a more ambitious Timber in Construction Roadmap in February 2025 to increas...
Government Departments: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if her department will update the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering Services to require applicable government agencies to purchase higher welfare products, including ca
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
The National Procurement Policy Statement underscores the government’s commitment to increasing procurement of food that meets higher environmental standards, supporting local suppliers and upholding ethical sourcing practises, including sourcing products...
Government Departments: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department will be strengthening the animal welfare provisions of the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering Services.
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
The National Procurement Policy Statement underscores the government’s commitment to increasing procurement of food that meets higher environmental standards, supporting local suppliers and upholding ethical sourcing practises, including sourcing products...
Government Departments: Catering
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department expects to implement the policy of requiring government catering contracts to favour high-quality, high-welfare products.
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
The National Procurement Policy Statement underscores the government’s commitment to increasing procurement of food that meets higher environmental standards, supporting local suppliers and upholding ethical sourcing practises, including sourcing products...
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 NHS Workforce: Sickness Absence
We know that sickness absence and stress are often related to people’s workplaces. With £17 million now invested in Northampton general hospital for a new urgent treatment centre, and enhanced A&E opening this summer, does the Secretar…
8 Jul 2026 European Entry and Exit System
As an MP who represents a constituency at the heart of the golden triangle, with one in five of my constituents working in logistics, this issue comes up regularly, including most recently with Steve Deveraux from BSI Transport, who explai…
2 Jul 2026 Hospitality Sector
The Northampton-based McManus Pub Company runs 18 pubs and employs 370 people. I spoke to Tom McManus yesterday, who told me that successive Governments have ignored hospitality and that in the past five years business costs have made it h…
30 Jun 2026 Antisemitism: University Campuses
My hon. Friend picks up the next point I want to make. Unfortunately, there have been cases, including at Warwick, where complaints of antisemitism have not been handled well and where those raising concerns have felt unsupported, and that…
30 Jun 2026 Antisemitism: University Campuses
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds South West and Morley (Mark Sewards) for introducing this important debate. I am fortunate to have had a positive relationship with…
11 Jun 2026 Passenger Rail Services
The Minister will be aware that freight services using East West Rail infrastructure already terminate at Northampton Gateway. Will the Minister work with me to ensure Northampton is included in East West Rail’s long-term vision for passen…
11 Jun 2026 Passenger Rail Services
2. What steps she is taking to improve passenger rail services.
9 Jun 2026 Energy Costs
The hon. Member for Gorton and Denton (Hannah Spencer) referred to retrofitting in her speech, and the Minister has talked about its importance. In Northampton, one of the biggest concerns people have about committing to retrofit is gettin…
9 Jun 2026 Energy Costs
Will the hon. lady give way?
2 Jun 2026 Clean Energy Transition: Supporting People in Work
Twenty-five per cent of the manufacturing output of the east midlands is in the food and drink sector, but that sector feels left behind in the clean energy transition without support from Government programmes, such as the British industr…
27 Apr 2026 Topical Questions
The potential rapid closure of St Andrew’s hospital in my constituency puts over 3,000 jobs at risk. Will the Secretary of State meet me to discuss what package of support we can put in place for those people to ensure they can find good…
24 Mar 2026 Oil and Gas
Will the hon. Member give way?
24 Mar 2026 Oil and Gas
The discussion on fracking is perhaps one for another day. We have heard claims that there are billions of pounds to be invested, but in reality, when it comes to development, it is the public who pay the price. In some cases, taxpayers…
24 Mar 2026 Oil and Gas
I have found this debate quite fascinating. What nonsense from the Conservatives! We are watching a party rip itself up as it worries about more defections to Reform, and Conservative Back Benchers parrot the lines of their Front Benchers.…
24 Mar 2026 Household Energy Bills
Does the Secretary of State share my concern, or dismay, perhaps, that at a time when families are concerned about the cost of energy and the price at the pumps, the Conservatives have become obsessed with oil and gas licensing and not tak…
16 Mar 2026 Grenfell Tower Memorial (Expenditure) Bill
I thank the Secretary of State for bringing forward this piece of legislation. Can he confirm that the Bill is not only about capital expenditure, but long-term maintenance, to ensure that this is a lasting legacy for the families of Grenf…
16 Mar 2026 Heating Oil Support
I welcome the Minister’s statement, which will reassure a lot of families in Northamptonshire. Could he give us a bit more detail on the timeline under which this will be brought in, and assure people across Northamptonshire that the proce…
3 Mar 2026 Geotechnical Data
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the collection of, setting of standards relating to, and secure sharing of geotechnical data derived from ground and site investigations; to require the integ…
10 Feb 2026 Local Power Plan
Northampton is one of the towns across the UK that will benefit from the local power plan. Does the Secretary of State agree that my schools, colleges and universities, the four hospitals in my constituency, and my sports clubs, including …
20 Jan 2026 Topical Questions
T8. In her interview two weeks ago in The Sunday Times, the Foreign Secretary warned that the only person who benefits when NATO is divided is Vladimir Putin. That warning looks even more relevant today, so may I ask her once again to re…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill 15 Sep 2025 – 28 Oct 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
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Parliamentary office
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Constituency office
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mike Reader, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mike Reader?
Mike Reader is a Member of Parliament representing Northampton South in the House of Commons. See Mike Reader's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mike Reader represent?
Mike Reader sits as Labour. See Mike Reader's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mike Reader represent?
Mike Reader is the Member of Parliament for Northampton South. See Mike Reader's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mike Reader been an MP?
Mike Reader has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Mike Reader's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mike Reader?
Mike Reader has 13 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mike Reader's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.