David Baines MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for St Helens North is David Baines (Labour).
Offices and committees
David Baines sits on one committee, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Work and Pensions Committee | 27 October 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Procedure Committee | 27 January 2025 | 1 December 2025 |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 15 January 2025 | 11 February 2025 |
| Petitions Committee | 4 November 2024 | 3 March 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 de4396eb4a64.
Register of interests
David Baines has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 20 July 2026 and the latest on 6 October 2026. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (3). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Rugby League Commercial - £250.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Two tickets to the Super League Grand Final
- Value of the benefit: £250.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-10-03
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-10-03
- Name of the donor: Rugby League Commercial
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Rugby League Commercial
Rugby League Commercial - £150.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Ticket to the Rugby League Magic Weekend
- Value of the benefit: £150.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-07-04
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-07-04
- Name of the donor: Rugby League Commercial
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Rugby League Commercial
Community Integrated Care - £323.20
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Two hospitality tickets for the Rugby League Magic Weekend, to meet with Community Integrated Care who were running a Learning Disability Rugby League match at the event
- Value of the benefit: £323.20
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-07-05
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-07-05
- Name of the donor: Community Integrated Care
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Community Integrated Care
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 23 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 David Baines's office spent £92,658 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £11,644 in the same year. 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 | £92,658.23 |
| Office costs: spent | £11,643.51 |
| Accommodation: spent | £22,115.16 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £10,245.29 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £31,549 (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 renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024, with an uplift to cover the cost of two dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: St Helens North CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
David Baines is recorded voting in 418 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 44 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. On 20 October 2026 David Baines voted Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 23 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
David Baines has tabled 31 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Business and Trade, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Education and 2 other departments.
Parcels: Delivery Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on regulating employment standards in the parcel delivery sector; and what steps he is taking to prevent gig economy working practices from adversely impacting Ro …
Sport England: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reforms to the statutory consultee system on Sport England's ability to represent the interests of grassroots sports clubs …
Pupils: Literacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to introduce measures for tracking spoken language skills alongside existing literacy assessments.
Unadopted Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to strengthen protections for freeholders living on estates with unadopted roads; and to help ensure developers and utilities providers act qu …
Unadopted Roads: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on the research into the decline in road adoption rates across England; and when she expects to publish the findings of that research.
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is working with NHS England and other relevant bodies in the development and implementation of Modern Service Frameworks.
Tourette's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of diagnostic and treatment pathways for Tourette syndrome across Integrated Care Boards; and for what reason Tourette syndrome has not b …
Pre-school Education: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to require the provision of CCTV in early years settings.
Pre-school Education: Sleep
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider the potential merits of making safer sleep training for early years staff mandatory.
Pre-school Education: Sleep
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the changes to the EYFS to include safer sleep will be laid as a statutory instrument.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 a84ee9854d14. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by David Baines.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election St Helens North returned David Baines with a majority of 12,169: 21,284 votes, 52.6% of those cast, against 9,115 for Malcolm Webster. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · St Helens North 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.