Steve Witherden MP: votes, interests and costs
Steve Witherden represents Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Steve Witherden as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Welsh Affairs Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 41c4424ca65e.
Register of interests
Steve Witherden has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 1 August 2024 and the latest on 15 July 2026. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (1), Visits outside the UK (1), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
NASUWT - £301.06
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: reimbursement after I attended the NASUWT Conference in Birmingham (3rd-4th of April 2026). This payment was for travel (including the travel of my wife and two children) and my sustenance (expected reimbursement for my accommodation will be registered separately)
- Value of the benefit: £301.06
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-16
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-16
- Name of the donor: NASUWT
- Status of the donor: Trade Union
International visit to Cuba between 16 October 2025 and 21 October 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Attend Granma Rebelde cultural festival; Inter-parliamentarian visit to Revolution Square; Inter-parliamentarian visit to the Capitolio; Visit Association Quisicuaba, to view their outreach work
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-10-16
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-10-21
- Associated All Parliamentary Group (APPG), where relevant: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba
Negotiating Secretary NASUWT Wrexham Association. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
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 £99,704 for Steve Witherden in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £8,657 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 | £99,703.62 |
| Office costs: spent | £8,657.31 |
| Accommodation: spent | £25,309.13 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £7,600.57 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £31,549 (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, with an uplift to cover the cost of two dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Communications Advisor (fixed term full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Steve Witherden is recorded voting in 495 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 43 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 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 99 written questions from Steve Witherden since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Ministry of Defence; Ministry of Justice; Department for Business and Trade; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and others.
Israel: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British armed forces officers are currently studying or training in Israel.
Homicide: Sentencing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he will commit to publishing a clear timetable for closing the 10 year sentencing starting point gap between most domestic murders and other murders.
Arms Trade: United Arab Emirates
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessments he has made of the potential risk that arms exports licensed by the UK Government to the United Arab Emirates might be diverted and used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of …
Craig Foreman and Lindsay Foreman
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to raise the case of Lindsay and Craig Foreman with her US counterpart.
United Arab Emirates: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps does her Department take to protect against the diversion of arms exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in Sudan.
United Arab Emirates: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment has her Department made of the potential for the diversion of UK arms exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for use in Sudan.
Animal Products: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish the list of species the Department considers to be of conservation concern under the proposed legislation to ban imports of hunting trophies; and how the Department …
NHS: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is any data on Welsh patients treated in England (a) held and (b) processed by Palantir.
Ruabon Station: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on providing step-free access at Ruabon station.
Pigs: Slaughterhouses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to accept the recommendation of the Animal Welfare Committee's report entitled The welfare impacts on pigs of high concentration CO2 gas stunning and of po …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 32134b11d731. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Steve Witherden.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr returned Steve Witherden with a majority of 3,815: 12,709 votes, 29.4% of those cast, against 8,894 for Oliver Lewis. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr figures
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