Ms Marie Rimmer MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for St Helens South and Whiston is Ms Marie Rimmer (Labour), MP there since 7 May 2015.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Ms Marie Rimmer; earlier posts are below.
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Whip (Commons) | Whips Office (Commons) | 14 April 2020 | 4 December 2021 |
| Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Disabled People) | Department for Work and Pensions | 1 February 2017 | 9 October 2017 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill | 15 May 2024 | 22 May 2024 |
| Public Accounts Committee | 29 January 2024 | 30 May 2024 |
| Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | 10 January 2024 | 30 January 2024 |
| Powers of Attorney Bill | 22 February 2023 | 1 March 2023 |
| British Sign Language Bill | 9 February 2022 | 23 February 2022 |
| Building Safety Bill | 9 September 2021 | 26 October 2021 |
| Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill | 1 July 2021 | 8 July 2021 |
| Justice Committee | 2 March 2020 | 11 May 2020 |
| Justice Committee | 5 February 2018 | 6 November 2019 |
| Justice Committee | 26 October 2015 | 13 March 2017 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 4ed97f2aaeca.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests API returned no entries for Ms Marie Rimmer when read on 28 October 2026.
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Ms Marie Rimmer's office spent £206,045 on staff, from a staffing budget of £250,820, according to IPSA. The figure for 2023-24 was £196,898. IPSA lists office spending of £27,482 in the same year. 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 | £206,045.28 | £196,898.08 | £172,897.27 |
| Office costs: spent | £27,481.51 | £25,026.39 | £24,524.28 |
| Accommodation: spent | £11,509.63 | £11,547.98 | £10,472.31 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £12,548.04 | £14,249.25 | £15,334.30 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £29,290 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: St Helens South and Whiston BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Caseworker ×2 (permanent part time), Communications Officer (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Ms Marie Rimmer voted in the House of Commons: 401 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 44 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. On 15 October 2026 Ms Marie Rimmer voted No on "Highways (Financing) Bill: Second Reading: Reasoned Amendment".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 15 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, 19 written questions have been tabled by Ms Marie Rimmer, the parliamentary record shows. The latest 10 were addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Transport, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 other departments.
Iran: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the UN Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, published on 17 September 2026, what practical steps th …
China: Oppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to protect people in the UK, including Hong Kongers, from the extraterritorial application of Article 63 of China’s ethnic unity law, incl …
Driverless Vehicles: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) Baidu and (b) other Chinese software companies' compliance with the extraterritorial elements of the People's Republic of China (i) National intell …
Driverless Vehicles: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the outage of Baidu self-driving cars in Wuhan.
Driverless Vehicles: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many licences for testing self-driving cars have been given to (a) Baidu and (b) other automotive companies partnered with Chinese providers.
Telecommunications Cables: Seas and Oceans
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking with international partners like Taiwan on undersea cable resilience.
Uyghurs: Intimidation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of state intimidation on Uyghur families in the diaspora.
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of disaster recovery planning at the Legal Aid Agency prior to the cyber-attack of April 2025.
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the the Legal Advice Agency data breach in April 2025, whether his Department and the LAA had a prepared disaster recovery plan prior to the breach.
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, after the April 2025 data breach of the Legal Advice Agency, what specific steps have been taken, and what further measures are planned, to ensure that a similar security breach does not occur again.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 00b06a3e6126. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Ms Marie Rimmer.
2024 general election
Ms Marie Rimmer won St Helens South and Whiston at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 18,919 votes (49.7%), a majority of 11,945 over Raymond Peters (Reform UK). Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · St Helens South and Whiston 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.