Richard Burgon MP: votes, interests and costs
Richard Burgon represents Leeds East in the House of Commons for Labour and has done since 7 May 2015.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Richard Burgon; earlier posts are below.
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice | Ministry of Justice | 27 June 2016 | 6 April 2020 |
| Shadow Minister (Treasury) | HM Treasury | 18 September 2015 | 27 June 2016 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) | 6 July 2020 | 30 May 2024 |
| Justice Committee | 11 May 2020 | 22 February 2021 |
| Justice Committee | 6 July 2015 | 26 October 2015 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 b57d970282ba.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Richard Burgon, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (3), Shareholdings (1). Latest registration 28 March 2023. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Shares in Richard Burgon Campaigns Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Date on which the holding was acquired, or achieved registrable value: 2022-01-17
- Name of the company or partnership: Richard Burgon Campaigns Ltd
Unpaid Chair of the Brazil Solidarity Initiative, a network established to campaign for human rights in Brazil.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2018-11-22
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Unpaid Director of Richard Burgon Campaigns Ltd, a company established for my campaign to be Labour’s Deputy Leader and which continues to help deliver my campaigns work.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2020-04-16
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Non-practising solicitor.
- The type of interest: Other
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 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 £246,891 for Richard Burgon in 2024-25 against a budget of £250,820. The figure for 2023-24 was £228,859. IPSA lists office spending of £23,450 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 | £246,891.04 | £228,858.90 | £221,398.51 |
| Office costs: spent | £23,449.91 | £24,824.83 | £25,721.76 |
| Accommodation: spent | £25,977.03 | £25,155.74 | £25,079.89 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £5,255.97 | £4,643.45 | £4,738.62 |
| 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: Leeds East CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Caseworker (permanent part time), Administrative Manager (permanent part time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Richard Burgon voted in the House of Commons: 508 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 58 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. On 21 October 2026 Richard Burgon voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
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 172 written questions from Richard Burgon since 4 July 2024. The latest 10 were addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 1 other departments.
Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she had with the police a) prior to the Great Israeli Real Estate Event on 14 June 2026 and b) following reports that materials were handed out promoting pro …
Home Care Services: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of low commissioning rates by local councils on incidence of non-payment for travel time between care visits for homecare workers.
Home Care Services: Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has assessed council commissioning rates for homecare to ascertain if councils are encouraging the underpayment of the National Living Wage.
Home Care Services: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State with Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Local Government Association on tackling the non-payment of travel time of homecare wo …
Health Services: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many records of individual immigration status have been shared by NHS England with the Personal Demographics Service.
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether data from Cost Recovery Collection in the NHS can be accessed by the Federated Data Platform.
Internet: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which (a) departmental officials, (b) external academic partners, and (c) private contractors were responsible for designing the methodology and key performance indicators (KPIs) of the …
Israel: Lebanon
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on the compliance of Israeli strikes on Lebanon on 8 April 2026 with the laws of war.
Israel: Lebanon
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of whether F-35s were used in the Israeli strikes on Lebanon conducted on 8 April.
Morgan McSweeney
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, (a) on what date Morgan McSweeney was granted Developed Vetting clearance; (b) whether Morgan McSweeney handled documents for which he would require Developed Vetting clearance prior to that date.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 05ed9c416cc3. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Richard Burgon.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Leeds East returned Richard Burgon with a majority of 11,265: 18,610 votes, 47.2% of those cast, against 7,345 for David Dresser. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Leeds East 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.