Torsten Bell MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Swansea West is Torsten Bell (Labour). Current post: Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury), held since 14 January 2025.
Offices and committees
Torsten Bell holds these 2 posts, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury) | HM Treasury | 14 January 2025 | Current |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) | Department for Work and Pensions | 14 January 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Pension Schemes Bill | 15 July 2025 | 11 September 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 51a4090c0a5d.
Register of interests
Torsten Bell has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 1 April 2025 and the latest on 14 February 2026. By category: Visits outside the UK (1), Employment and earnings (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
International visit to France between 15 January 2026 and 17 January 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Franco-British Colloque 2026
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-01-15
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-01-17
Paperback publication - Robert Caskie
- Type of work or service being provided: Paperback publication
- Name of the payer: Robert Caskie
- Brief description of the payer's business: Agent
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 24 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Torsten Bell's office spent £126,867 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £6,332 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 | £126,866.84 |
| Office costs: spent | £6,331.79 |
| Accommodation: spent | £11,139.53 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £7,881.96 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £24,633 (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, plus an uplift to cover the cost of two dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Swansea West CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent part time), Senior Caseworker (fixed term full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time), Senior Communications Advisor (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records 446 votes by Torsten Bell in divisions since 4 July 2024. Of these, 56 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The latest 30 votes on bills and motions are below, from 1 July 2026 to 21 October 2026. On 21 October 2026 Torsten Bell voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 24 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 9 written questions from Torsten Bell since 4 July 2024. The latest 9 were addressed to Treasury, Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and 1 other departments.
Cryptoassets: Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the revenue accrued from capital gains tax on the sale of crypto-assets in the last financial year.
Jobseeker's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s statistics on the ONS Nomis database on Jobseekers Allowance on-flows by occupation and age, what assessment she has made of the potential reason for changes in the nu …
Insolvency: Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November to Question 13792 on Insolvency: Assets, what information (a) HM Land Registry and (b) Companies House hold on the number of registered free …
Cryptoassets: Capital Gains Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax-payers were paying capital gains tax on crypto-assets in each of the last five financial years; what the size of the gains made was; and how much revenue the Exchequer has received from capital gains ta …
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 16634 on high rise building remediation taken on by the FSCS, how much and what proportion of the costs covered by East West Insurance Company policies relate to …
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate the Financial Services Compensation Scheme has made of the costs (a) of high rise building remediation work taken on by the FSCS and (b) to each insurance company that originally wrote the building ins …
Insolvency: Assets
To ask the Solicitor General, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October to Question 9653 on Insolvency: Assets, in addition to the registered freehold titles that the Bona Vacantia Division is dealing with, how many registered freehold titles are vested in the …
Insolvency: Assets
To ask the Solicitor General, how many registered freehold titles in England and Wales are vested in the Crown as bona vacantia as a consequence of companies being dissolved through (a) striking off by the Registrar of Companies and (b) a formal liquidati …
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the remedial work on buildings with (a) faulty cladding systems and (b) defects in compartmentalisation (i) includes independen …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d9c7046c20f8. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Torsten Bell.
2024 general election
Torsten Bell won Swansea West at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 14,761 votes (41.4%), a majority of 8,515 over Patrick Benham-Crosswell (Reform UK). Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Swansea West figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Torsten Bell corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Torsten Bell:
- Torsten Bell corrected a written answer on Pensioners: Income Tax
- Torsten Bell corrected the Commons record on Winter Fuel Payments: Pensioner Poverty
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.