Peter Swallow MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Bracknell is Peter Swallow (Labour).
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Peter Swallow as a current member of these 6 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] | 17 December 2025 | Current |
| Education Committee | 28 October 2025 | Current |
| General Cemetery Bill [HL] | 16 September 2025 | Current |
| Norwich Livestock Market Bill [HL] | 25 June 2025 | Current |
| Court of Referees | 27 February 2025 | Current |
| Human Rights (Joint Committee) | 6 January 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 5 March 2025 | 20 March 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 df3c5d5414ba.
Register of interests
Peter Swallow has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 22 July 2024 and the latest on 17 September 2026. By category: Employment and earnings (1), Visits outside the UK (1), Family members engaged in third-party lobbying (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Writing an article for The Guardian - The Guardian
- Type of work or service being provided: Writing an article for The Guardian
- Name of the payer: The Guardian
- Payment received on 17 September 2026 - £305.62
International visit to Brunei between 25 May 2025 and 29 May 2025
- Purpose of the visit: To undertake a visit as part of my participation in the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme.
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-05-25
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-05-29
Rishi Patel employed as Lobbyist
- Job title or role: Programme Officer
- Name of employer: Gates Foundation
- Name of the family member acting as a lobbyist: Rishi Patel
- Who the family member is directly related to: Related to member directly
- Nature of relationship: Partner
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 b85f220f0802. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Peter Swallow's office spent £131,712 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. Office costs came to £29,050 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 | £131,711.88 |
| Office costs: spent | £29,049.91 |
| Accommodation: spent | £7,950.97 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £696.55 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (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).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Bracknell BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Communications Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term part time), Administrative Officer (fixed term part time), Office Manager (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Peter Swallow is recorded voting in 524 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 48 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, 28 written questions have been tabled by Peter Swallow, the parliamentary record shows. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Ministry of Justice; Department for Work and Pensions; Department for Transport; and others.
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending free prescriptions to 16, 17 and 18-year-olds completing an apprenticeship.
Probate Service: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will review charges levied on phone calls to the probate service.
Bereavement Support Payment: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of uprating bereavement support payments in line with inflation.
Blue Badge Scheme: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will review the requirement for people with progressive health conditions to reapply for blue badges every three years.
Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he will publish data on the disposal of social housing stock broken down by tenure and local authority area.
Families: Bracknell Forest
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support families in Bracknell Forest in summer 2026.
Ataxia
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of TG6 blood tests for diagnosis of gluten ataxia.
Broadband and Mobile Phones: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle loyalty penalties for phone and broadband customers.
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress he has made on consulting on reform to the calculation of Child maintenance.
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on providing the NHS staff council with a funded mandate to make improvements to the Agenda for Change pay structure.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 25235d5c9b39. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Peter Swallow.
2024 general election
The House of Commons Library records a majority of 784 for Peter Swallow in Bracknell in July 2024, from 14,783 votes on a turnout of 61.2%. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Bracknell 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.