Rt Hon Steve Reed, MP for Streatham and Croydon North
Steve Reed has been an MP since 2012.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (Ministry of Justice) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) | 2021 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Minister (Education) (Children and Families) (Department for Education) | 2019 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Civil Society) (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) (Civil Society) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government) (Department for Communities and Local Government) | 2015 to 2016 |
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| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) (Home Office) | 2013 to 2015 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Public Administration Committee | 2012 to 2013 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Steve Reed has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The Football Association - £494.36 | 10 Sep 2025 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Steve Reed has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
34 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Steve Reed represents Streatham and Croydon North. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Steve Reed won with 52% of the votes, and Scott Ainslie (Green Party) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Reed | Labour | 23,232 | 52.1% |
| Scott Ainslie | Green Party | 7,629 | 17.1% |
| Anthony Boutall | Conservative | 5,328 | 12.0% |
| Claire Bonham | Liberal Democrat | 5,031 | 11.3% |
| Philip Watson | Reform UK | 1,994 | 4.5% |
| Waseem Sherwani | Workers Party of Britain | 910 | 2.0% |
| Magdaline Nzekwue | Christian Peoples Alliance | 290 | 0.7% |
| Myles Owen | Social Democratic Party | 139 | 0.3% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Steve Reed took part in 116 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Steve Reed voted the same way as their party in 114 of the 114 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | Free vote |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this