Andrew Pakes MP: votes, interests and costs
Andrew Pakes represents Peterborough in the House of Commons for Labour (Co-op).
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Andrew Pakes as a current member of these 2 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 10 March 2025 | Current |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 10 March 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill | 26 June 2025 | 2 July 2025 |
| Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] | 18 December 2024 | 16 January 2025 |
| Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | 28 October 2024 | 27 October 2025 |
| Great British Energy Bill | 11 September 2024 | 15 October 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 6e085b961953.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 8 entries for Andrew Pakes: Visits outside the UK (3), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (2), Miscellaneous (2), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). The most recent was registered on 6 October 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Audience Strategies - £5,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: To support my work as an MP
- Value of the benefit: £5,000.00
- Name of the donor: Audience Strategies
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Audience Strategies
- Company registration number: 12087454
International visit to Canada between 20 September 2026 and 03 October 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Meetings with Canadian cooperatives and mutuals, including speaking at an event at the Canadian Parliament and meeting with MPs
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-09-20
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-10-03
International visit to Australia between 20 July 2026 and 29 July 2026
- Purpose of the visit: A speaking tour and study visit with Australian cooperatives and mutuals, including speaking at the Australian Labor Party conference.
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-07-20
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-07-29
GMB London Region - £2,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Value of the benefit: £2,000.00
- Name of the donor: GMB London Region
- Status of the donor: Trade Union
International visit to Australia between 22 October 2025 and 29 October 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Speaker at the Business Council of Co-operative and Mutuals [BCCM] Leaders’ Summit in Adelaide. Meetings with Ministers and associated organisations in Canberra in relation to UK and Australian policies for co-operative and mutual businesses.
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-10-22
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-10-29
- Associated All Parliamentary Group (APPG), where relevant: APPG on Mutuals
Property in London
- Location of the land or property: London
- A description of the property: Home in London
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Co-owned with partner
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Associate Fellow, Digital Future at work research centre, University of Sussex Business School. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member, Advisory Board, London AI Campus (education initiative by Camden Learning/ Camden Council, supported by Google). This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £149,854 for Andrew Pakes in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £26,452 of a £30,426 budget. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £149,854.15 |
| Office costs: spent | £26,452.08 |
| Accommodation: spent | £3,206.67 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £4,318.88 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £4,904 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for an MP who owns their property and is claiming the associated costs only (such as utilities) from 5 July 2025).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Peterborough CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Communication Officer (permanent full time), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Constituency Assistant (fixed term part time), Intern ×2 (fixed term full time), Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (fixed term part time), Senior Policy Researcher (permanent part time), Communications Officer (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Andrew Pakes is recorded voting in 453 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 52 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. The most recent, on 20 October 2026, was an Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Since 4 July 2024, 20 written questions have been tabled by Andrew Pakes, the parliamentary record shows. Departments in the latest 10: Treasury; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department for Education; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; and others.
Friendly Societies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to set out a timetable for implementing the recommendations of the Law Commission’s Review of the Friendly Societies Acts 1974 and 1992, published on 10 September 2026.
Tourism
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support local visitor economies.
Private Education: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided to Ofsted for the inspection of independent schools in each of the last five years.
Independent Schools Inspectorate: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided for the (a) operation of the Independent Schools Inspectorate and (b) cost of inspections undertaken by the Inspectorate in each financial year since 2015-16.
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many grants have been awarded under the Boiler Upgrade Scheme in each month since the scheme started by (a) technology, (b) local authority and (c) constituency.
Government Hubs: Peterborough
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the staff capacity is at the civil service hub building in Peterborough; and what the average staff occupancy is.
Sepsis: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase public awareness of the symptoms of sepsis.
Sepsis: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to include the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of sepsis in the 10 Year Health Plan.
Armed Forces Covenant
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to encourage more organisations to sign the Armed Forces Covenant.
Farms: Educational Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of educational access visits to farms over the last five years; and what plans he has …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 6a7e7452a132. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Andrew Pakes.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Peterborough returned Andrew Pakes with a majority of 118: 13,418 votes, 32.0% of those cast, against 13,300 for Paul Bristow. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Peterborough figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.