At a glanceSean Woodcock is a Labour MP for Banbury, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 537 votes in Commons divisions (93% attendance), tabled 9 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Sean Woodcock did not vote in 38. 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
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Finance Committee (Commons) Committee since 18 Nov 2024
- Banbury 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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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 514 of 514 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 508 of 508 shared votes
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Paul Waugh
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 485 of 485 shared votes
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Johanna Baxter
Labour
100.0% · 484 of 484 shared votes
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Alan Strickland
Labour
100.0% · 482 of 482 shared votes
Votes least like
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 291 shared votes
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David Davis
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 264 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.9% · 3 of 330 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 299 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
1.2% · 4 of 339 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 UK2
- International visit to Brunei between 24 May 2026 and 29 May 2026 (registered 4 Jun 2026)
- International visit to Jordan between 20 July 2025 and 25 July 2025 (registered 14 Aug 2025)
Written questions
Planning: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many members of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel have been allocated to support the drafting of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation in pursuit of planning reform
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
Within the Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) and Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) legal teams there are lawyers working on MHCLG related business, alongside members in the Government Legal Department. There is no group of ...
Aerials: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her department has made of the potential economic impact of an increase in notifications to mobile telecommunications companies under the Notice to Quit regime.
Answer · 29 Apr 2026
The Electronic Communications Code allows for site providers to serve Notices to Quit in specific limited circumstances, including if land is to be redeveloped and is no longer suitable to host telecommunications apparatus, or needs to be moved. We recogn...
Aerials: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reforming the Notice to Quit regime to reduce disruption to mobile data coverage and capacity.
Answer · 29 Apr 2026
The Electronic Communications Code allows for site providers to serve Notices to Quit in specific limited circumstances, including if land is to be redeveloped and is no longer suitable to host telecommunications apparatus, or needs to be moved. We recogn...
Mobile Broadband: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has considered the report published by TYI on 18 March 2026, titled ‘Small Changes, Big Rewards: Ensuring planning connects with mobile infrastructure ambitions’.
Answer · 29 Apr 2026
On December 18 2025, my Department, in conjunction with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, launched a joint Call for Evidence on reforming planning rules to accelerate deployment of digital infrastructure. This Call for Evidence closed...
Ukraine: Military Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase military support to Ukraine.
Answer · 19 May 2025
This year the UK will give more military support to Ukraine than ever before, with a £4.5 billion boost. At the 27th Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting, we announced a rapid surge in support, valued at around £450 million. This follows the £2.26 billio...
Chiltern Railways: Overcrowding
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking with Chiltern Railways to help prevent overcrowding.
Answer · 15 May 2025
Chiltern Railways periodically adjust their timetable in response to passenger demand. From the 18th May, Chiltern will introduce three new Saturday services between Banbury and London Marylebone. We are engaging closely with Chiltern's fleet renewal prog...
Electronic Government: Banbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure the accessibility of Government digital services in Banbury.
Answer · 14 May 2025
The Government Digital Service (GDS) role is to ensure the delivery of digital services that work for all of our citizens. That includes monitoring the services each departments delivers online - to make sure they are providing support for citizens with l...
Homelessness: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support veterans affected by homelessness.
Answer · 7 Apr 2025
We have increased funding for homelessness services and supported veterans to access social housing by exempting them from local connection tests for social housing in England. The Deputy Prime Minister is chairing an Interministerial Group, which include...
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
Every week in my surgeries I hear about the consequences of Thames Water’s failures. An elderly widowed constituent was left without running water after it failed and botched the installation of a water meter, and she was forced to shell o…
13 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
Does the Minister believe, as I do, that if local government reorganisation is done correctly, it has the potential not just to reshape local government so that it is fit for the 21st century, but to help us secure much-needed economic gro…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
The right hon. Gentleman is right. I had a zero-hours contract as a student and it worked for me because, crucially, I was able to say, “No, I can’t come in today.” Surely he understands that there is a difference between that situation a…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I am nearing the end of my speech, so I will not give way. Those young people want us to tackle these issues in the round and in a systemic way, rather than through party political point scoring and throwing statistics across the Chambe…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I meet businesses in my constituency all the time. As I stated at the beginning of my speech, they raise a number of the issues that the Opposition have raised, and I do not pretend that none of those come up in my conversations. Yes, the …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I was in two minds about joining this debate on summer jobs, to be frank, because my first job was stacking shelves in Marks & Spencer over Christmas, but I hope the House will forgive me for joining in anyway. I thank the Oppositio…
6 Jul 2026 Foreign Interference in UK Politics
I thank the Minister for her statement. I have notified the relevant Member that I am about to name them. Over the weekend, The Telegraph ran a study about the Iranian-born property magnate Sasan Ghandehari pledging to donate millions of p…
17 Jun 2026 Defence Spending
This Government have a NATO-first approach, meaning that our strength is reinforced by global allies, so that, in an increasingly dangerous world, the UK will not stand alone. It is vital that colleagues from across the House and Governmen…
17 Jun 2026 Defence Spending
12. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in defence spending on Wales.
15 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I thank the Minister for his decision about the continued and ongoing failings by Cherwell district council regarding a major planning application. Given that Banbury has a huge and desperate housing need, will he agree to meet me to discu…
10 Jun 2026 Engagements
Q10. Maternity care in north Oxfordshire declined under the previous Government, with the loss of consultant-led services at the Horton hospital—where I was born—and serious failings by the trust, which is now part of Baroness Amos’s in…
4 Jun 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
We know that 60% of victims drop out of rape cases before they go to trial. I would appreciate it if the Solicitor General could set out what she is doing to ensure that victims remain central to the work of the Crown Prosecution Service.
4 Jun 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
6. What assessment she has made of the adequacy of levels of Crown Prosecution Service prosecutions of cases involving violence against women and girls.
21 May 2026 Middle East: Economic Response
I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement, especially the measures to support farmers and hauliers. Banbury has a thriving logistics sector, with brilliant businesses like TWE Haulage; I visited that company last month, and I know it …
19 May 2026 Energy Security
I think the right hon. Gentleman unintentionally misrepresents Government policy, as it is my understanding that we will continue to use oil and gas, and it will play a key part in the just transition. Events in the middle east have mad…
19 May 2026 Energy Security
You were very clear about taking interventions, Madam Deputy Speaker. Although I do normally appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s contributions, this time I will not—[Interruption.] As he asked so nicely, I will let him.
19 May 2026 Energy Security
I will start by addressing comments made by Members on the Opposition Benches, in particular the hon. Members for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) and for Isle of Wight East (Joe Robertson), who decried Government policy on energy as ideologica…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Is it not the reality that this is about a Leader of the Opposition who called for us to join the US in the war in Iran, and who called the Prime Minister a liar when the evidence has shown that …
27 Apr 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update
This has been a very damaging issue. Peter Mandelson should clearly never have been made ambassador, and I am pleased that the Prime Minister has rightly apologised. There are, however, lessons to be learned already before the end of this …
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The right hon. Lady is being generous with her time. I ask her the same question that I posed earlier: if this is so important, why did the Conservatives not get round to doing it when they were in government for 14 years?
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee 27 Oct 2025 – 22 Jun 2026
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 15 Jan 2026 – 3 Feb 2026
- English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill 15 Sep 2025 – 28 Oct 2025
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 15 Jan 2025 – 25 Mar 2025
Elections contested
- Banbury 8 Jun 2017
- Banbury 7 May 2015
Expenses
Contact & offices
01295 981131
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Sean Woodcock, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Sean Woodcock?
Sean Woodcock is a Member of Parliament representing Banbury in the House of Commons. See Sean Woodcock's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Sean Woodcock represent?
Sean Woodcock sits as Labour. See Sean Woodcock's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Sean Woodcock represent?
Sean Woodcock is the Member of Parliament for Banbury. See Sean Woodcock's official Parliament profile.
How long has Sean Woodcock been an MP?
Sean Woodcock has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Sean Woodcock's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Sean Woodcock?
Sean Woodcock has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Sean Woodcock's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.