Steve Race MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Exeter is Steve Race (Labour).
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Steve Race; earlier posts are below.
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] | 24 June 2025 | 3 July 2025 |
| Crown Estate Bill [HL] | 29 January 2025 | 6 February 2025 |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 21 October 2024 | 27 October 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 bfdfd6259b04.
Register of interests
Steve Race has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 11 June 2026 and the latest on 25 August 2026. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (2), Visits outside the UK (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Exeter Rugby Club Ltd - £380.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Guest of Tony Rowe with hospitality and one guest at Exeter Chiefs v Saracens
- Value of the benefit: £380.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-06
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-06
- Name of the donor: Exeter Rugby Club Ltd
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Exeter Rugby Club Ltd
PRS for Music Limited - £858.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Two tickets to see Harry Styles at Wembley Stadium, including hospitality, as the guest of PRS for Music
- Value of the benefit: £858.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-23
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-23
- Name of the donor: PRS for Music Limited
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: PRS for Music Limited
International visit to Italy between 24 May 2026 and 31 May 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Travelled as Member of the APPG on Nutrition for Development to attend Rome Nutrition Week and meet with leaders, institutions, and civil society partners working to tackle malnutrition and hunger.
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-05-24
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-05-31
- Associated All Parliamentary Group (APPG), where relevant: Nutrition for Development
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Steve Race's office spent £167,261 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £10,280 in the same year. 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 | £167,261.39 |
| Office costs: spent | £10,279.77 |
| Accommodation: spent | £10,998.52 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £6,263.40 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £14,750 (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).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Exeter BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Researcher (permanent full time), Constituency Support Manager (permanent full time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent full time), Intern (fixed term full time), Researcher (fixed term full time), Intern (fixed term part time), Senior Communication Officer (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records 533 votes by Steve Race in divisions since 4 July 2024. Of these, 53 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The latest 30 votes on bills and motions are below, from 14 July 2026 to 21 October 2026. On 21 October 2026 Steve Race voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 25 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Steve Race has tabled 107 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and 2 other departments.
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department holds data on how many young people between the age of 16-25, as a percentage of the total and as a total number, are not in education, employment, or training within a) the Whipt …
Pupils: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on the level of pupil attendance at a) primary school level and b) secondary school level for the Whipton South and Heavitree East MSOA.
Child Nutrition Fund: Infant Mortality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Healthy Women, Children and Newborns: A Coordinated Approach to Ending Preventable Deaths, published on 6 November 20 …
Child Nutrition Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much of the UK's funding to the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) has been disbursed through the CNF's (a) programme window and (b) match window.
Development Aid: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the level of therapeutic food procured through UK Overseas Development Assistance (a) directly by the Government and (b) by third party partners, …
Technology: Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of new technologies on the use of animals in medical research.
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to hold discussions with the Reclassification Alliance on the future of medicines reclassification.
Food Insecurity and Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 report, published on 28 July 2025, what steps his Department plans to take to support initiatives …
Food Insecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 report published on 28 July 2005, what assessment he has made of the implications for his his …
Sustainable Development: Food Insecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help accelerate progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 by 2030.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 971e16f5f624. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Steve Race.
2024 general election
Steve Race won Exeter at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 18,225 votes (45.3%), a majority of 11,937 over Tessa Tucker (Conservative). Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Exeter figures
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