Jake Richards MP: votes, interests and costs
Jake Richards represents Rother Valley in the House of Commons for Labour. The Members API lists the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) from 7 September 2025.
Offices and committees
Current post held by Jake Richards, as recorded by UK Parliament:
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) | Ministry of Justice | 7 September 2025 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Whip | Whips Office (Commons) | 7 September 2025 | 22 July 2026 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill | 15 January 2025 | 25 March 2025 |
| Home Affairs Committee | 21 October 2024 | 27 October 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 f3a831002465.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 3 entries for Jake Richards: Employment and earnings (1), Miscellaneous (1), Family members engaged in third-party lobbying (1). The most recent was registered on 28 August 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Legal services provided before my election to Parliament - Deka Chambers
- Type of work or service being provided: Legal services provided before my election to Parliament
- Name of the payer: Deka Chambers
- Brief description of the payer's business: Barrister Chambers
Associate member of Deka Chambers.
- The type of interest: Other
Steve Richards employed as Lobbyist
- Job title or role: Freelance
- Name of employer: Self Employed
- Name of the family member acting as a lobbyist: Steve Richards
- Who the family member is directly related to: Related to member directly
- Nature of relationship: Father
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 25 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 £139,102 for Jake Richards in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £29,299 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 | £139,102.09 |
| Office costs: spent | £29,298.53 |
| Accommodation: spent | £11,163.09 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £7,818.12 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £19,692 (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 outside the London area from 5 July 2024, with an uplift to cover the cost of one dependant).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Rother Valley CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (fixed term full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Intern (fixed term part time), Constituency Assistant (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Jake Richards is recorded voting in 443 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 37 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 21 October 2026, was a No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
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 Jake Richards, the parliamentary record shows. Departments in the latest 10: Home Office; Department of Health and Social Care; Department for Education; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and others.
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been granted entry clearance to the UK under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme and (c) Afghanistan Response Route.
Mental Health Services: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing 24/7 mental health text lines.
Home Office: Armed Forces Covenant
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Armed Forces Covenant Duty across her Departmental responsibilities.
Department of Health and Social Care: Armed Forces Covenant
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the Armed Forces Covenant Duty across his Departmental responsibilities.
Immigration: European Convention on Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people (a) claim asylum and (b) receive leave to remain based solely on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Children in Care: Scotland and Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children under the care of English local authorities were living in (a) Wales and (b) Scotland on (i) 31 March 2024 and (ii) for each of the preceding four years.
Children in Care: Location
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in care in England were living more than (a) 50 and b) 100 miles from home on (i) 31 March 2024 and (ii) for each of the preceding four years.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many consultations his Department (a) initiated and (b) completed in the last Parliament between (i) 13 February 2020 and 6 September 2022, (ii) 6 September 2022 and 25 October 202 …
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse would be to not claim back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her Department's policy is on claiming back child benefit from parents who have lost a child in the year after the upfront payment.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c393e2fd865a. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Jake Richards.
2024 general election
Jake Richards won Rother Valley at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 16,023 votes (38.5%), a majority of 998 over Alexander Stafford (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Rother Valley figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Jake Richards corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Jake Richards:
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.