UK Parliament · member 4871
Christian Wakeford MP
- Party
- Labour — Labour Party
- Constituency
- Bury South
- Member for this seat since
- 12 December 2019
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Christian Wakeford, and how each was tied to them
Declared interests
MPs must register financial interests within 28 days. This is the register’s own text, republished verbatim from the official Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Registering an interest is a requirement met, not a finding against anyone.
The current register holds no entries matched to Christian Wakeford.
Source: UK Parliament Register of Members’ Financial Interests API (Open Parliament Licence). Amounts are shown only where the register itself records one as a figure; nothing is parsed out of the free text.
Voting record
In the 497 recorded divisions where Christian Wakeford and at least one other Labour member were recorded voting, Christian Wakeford voted the same way as most voting Labour members 497 times (100.0%).
This compares Christian Wakeford with other members of their own party who were recorded voting in the same division. It is not a measure of loyalty to a whip: Civometry holds no whipping records, so it cannot say which votes were whipped, and voting differently from party colleagues is not described here as a rebellion. Members not recorded in a division are excluded from the comparison rather than counted, because an absence from a division list is not a vote and does not mean the member was absent from the House.
Donations reported to the Electoral Commission
The register holds no donations reported against this name. Donations are matched on the regulated entity name exactly as the Electoral Commission publishes it; a member who reports under a different form of their name will not match here, and no similar name is substituted.
Source: Electoral Commission register of donations. Reporting thresholds apply, so this is not every sum given. A donation is a lawful, reported transaction; its presence here says nothing about why it was made and nothing about anything that followed it.
Staffing and business costs paid by IPSA
2025-26: £12,840 across 75 claim lines; 2024-25: £337,347 across 212 claim lines; 2023-24: £306,592 across 232 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 66 | £10,917 |
| 2025-26 | Accommodation | 9 | £1,923 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 1 | £246,645 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 20 | £32,494 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 182 | £31,873 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 4 | £17,039 |
| 2024-25 | Staff Travel | 4 | £9,202 |
| 2024-25 | Dependant Travel | 1 | £94 |
| 2023-24 | Staffing | 2 | £220,568 |
| 2023-24 | Accommodation | 32 | £33,816 |
| 2023-24 | Office Costs | 191 | £30,152 |
| 2023-24 | MP Travel | 4 | £16,310 |
| 2023-24 | Staff Travel | 3 | £5,746 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2021 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Printer Toner - Constituency Office | £996 | Paid |
| 7 July 2025 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 6 July 2024 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 6 July 2023 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 3 February 2026 | Accommodation · Utilities | Dual Fuel — OCTOPUS ENERGY LTD | £100 | Paid |
| 22 March 2022 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Banner April 2022 | £99 | Paid |
| 31 March 2023 | Staff Travel · Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2022-23 | £99 | Paid |
| 31 March 2022 | MP Travel · Air travel | Aggregated figure for travel during 2021-22 | £97 | Paid |
| 31 March 2023 | Office Costs · Working From Home Allowance | Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2022-23 | £96 | Paid |
| 13 March 2023 | Accommodation · Hotel - London | London accommodation | £950 | Paid |
| 26 August 2025 | Accommodation · Utilities | Dual Fuel — OCTOPUS ENERGY LTD | £96 | Paid |
| 31 March 2025 | Dependant Travel · Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25 | £94 | Paid |
| 23 March 2024 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories — HP INC HP.COM STORE UK [200010137-1059] | £937 | Paid |
| 31 March 2020 | Staff Travel · Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2019-20 | £931 | Paid |
| 19 August 2024 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Banner September 2024 | £93 | Paid |
Source: IPSA, MP staffing and business costs (Open Government Licence v3), joined on IPSA’s Parliamentary ID, which is Parliament’s member id. These are the running costs of an MP’s office and staff, claimed within IPSA’s rules and paid by IPSA; they are not the member’s salary and not personal income. A claim is a claim, not a finding. Staffing costs are published by IPSA in aggregate categories, not per employee.
Government posts, as Parliament records them
2 government posts since 2010 in Parliament’s record for this member, with the dates and the department it gives. A post is an appointment; nothing here says how it was discharged.
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury | Whips Office (Commons) | 7 September 2025 | still held |
| Assistant Whip | Whips Office (Commons) | 10 July 2024 | 7 September 2025 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence), the member’s own biography record. Posts before May 2010 are not loaded.
Sources on this page: UK Parliament Members API, Register of Members’ Financial Interests API and Commons Votes API (Open Parliament Licence); Electoral Commission register of donations; IPSA business costs. Each section links its own official record. This page assembles public registers and draws no conclusion from their appearing together.