Ms Diane Abbott MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington is Ms Diane Abbott (Labour), MP there since 11 June 1987.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Ms Diane Abbott; earlier posts are below.
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Home Secretary | Home Office | 6 October 2016 | 5 April 2020 |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Health | Department of Health | 27 June 2016 | 6 October 2016 |
| Shadow Secretary of State for International Development | Department for International Development | 14 September 2015 | 27 June 2016 |
| Shadow Minister (Public Health) | Department of Health | 8 October 2010 | 7 October 2013 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Justice Committee | 5 January 2022 | 29 November 2022 |
| Home Affairs Committee | 11 May 2020 | 30 May 2024 |
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 16 July 1997 | 11 May 2001 |
| Treasury Committee | 15 November 1995 | 21 March 1997 |
Other posts
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee | 1 January 1994 | 1 January 1997 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d9820ac6ec74.
Register of interests
Ms Diane Abbott has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 26 October 2016 and the latest on 3 July 2025. By category: Visits outside the UK (1), Employment and earnings (1), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
International visit to Ghana between 23 May 2025 and 01 June 2025
- Purpose of the visit: The Protect Black Women Tour - Black Women leaders and allies from the UK and the US gathered in Accra, Ghana for a Liberation Tour to mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s murder and to establish the Protect Black Women Accra Principles.
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-05-23
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-06-01
Marked in the register as a rectified entry: This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 2 October 2025. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code of Conduct refers.
Writing an autobiography - Viking- Penguin via Blake Friedmann Literary, TV & Film Agency Ltd
- Type of work or service being provided: Writing an autobiography
- Name of the payer: Viking- Penguin via Blake Friedmann Literary, TV & Film Agency Ltd
- Brief description of the payer's business: Book advance on first UK publication
- Payment received on 12 March 2025 - £18,450.00
- Payment received on 24 September 2024 - £22,500.00
Since December 2015, a trustee of the Diane Abbott Foundation, which works to excel and improve education. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Ms Diane Abbott's office spent £261,250 on staff, from a staffing budget of £268,550, according to IPSA. In 2023-24 it was £244,270. Office costs came to £9,062 of a £36,550 budget. 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 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £261,250.31 | £244,269.59 | £235,223.89 |
| Office costs: spent | £9,062.08 | £10,257.31 | £10,779.68 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £36,550, staffing £268,550, accommodation £0 (Standard London area budget).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Hackney North and Stoke Newington BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (fixed term full time), Senior Caseworker (fixed term full time), Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term part time), Communications Officer (fixed term part time), Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Ms Diane Abbott voted in the House of Commons: 314 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 24 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. The most recent, on 11 September 2026, was a No on "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 26 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
The Written Questions API lists 13 written questions from Ms Diane Abbott since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Ministry of Justice; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department for Education.
Terrorism: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the use of terrorist connection provisions under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020 in cases where no terrorism offence has been (a) charged a …
Independent Football Regulator: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department holds information on the gender and ethnicity of applicants and shortlisted candidates for appointments to the board of the Independent Football Regulator.
Independent Football Regulator: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have been appointed to the board of the Independent Football Regulator; and how many of those appointees are a) Black men and b) Black women.
Football: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Independent Football Regulator can credibly enforce equality and diversity standards in professional football, in the context of the absence …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many appointments to board-level roles in public bodies sponsored by her Department were made between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were Black a) men and …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department holds data on the gender and ethnicity of a) applicants, b) shortlisted candidates and c) successful candidates for public appointments; and if she will publish the number …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many non-executive appointments were made to public bodies sponsored by her Department between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were a) Black men and b) Blac …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public appointments her Department made in the periods a) 1 January 2020 to 3 July 2024 and b) 4 July 2024 to 29 April 2026; and how many appointees in each period were i) Black men and …
Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public appointments her Department made between 1 January 2020 and 29 April 2026; and how many of those appointees were a) Black men and b) Black women, broken down by ethnic group.
Pupils: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure equality of opportunity for black school students.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 afbc007761f3. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Ms Diane Abbott.
2024 general election
Ms Diane Abbott won Hackney North and Stoke Newington at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 24,355 votes (59.5%), a majority of 15,080 over Antoinette Fernandez (Green Party). Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Hackney North and Stoke Newington 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.