Emma Lewell, MP for South Shields
Emma Lewell has been an MP since 2013. Currently: Panel of Chairs; Defence Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Education) (Children and Families) (Department for Education) | 2016 to 2019 | |
| Shadow Minister (Communities and Local Government) (Department for Communities and Local Government) | 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Panel of Chairs | 2024 to now | Now |
| Defence Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
| Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill | 2024 | |
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2024 | |
| Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill | 2022 | |
| National Insurance Contributions Bill | 2021 | |
| Committees on Arms Export Controls | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Defence Sub-Committee | 2020 to 2024 |
Show the other 4
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Defence Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Work and Pensions Committee | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Draft Protection of Charities Bill (Joint Committee) | 2014 to 2015 | |
| Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | 2013 to 2015 |
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.
Emma Lewell has 10 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The Great Run Company /Film Nova - £400.00 | 10 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Advisory Council, Sea Power Laboratory at the Council on Geostrategy. This is an unpaid role | 22 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Patron of NAIRO - National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers. This is an unpaid role. | 22 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Patron of Forward Assist - a military veterans charity | 22 Oct 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of the Labour Friends of Kosovo group | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Board Member, Sea Change Cafe, South Shields (Sea Change Cafe is a Community Interest Company) | 2 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Deputy Convenor of the Catholic Legislators Network. | 19 Jul 2017 |
| Miscellaneous | A patron of the Every Child Leaving Care Matters organisation. | 18 Jul 2016 |
| Miscellaneous | A patron of the Social Care Worker of the Year Awards. | 18 Jul 2016 |
| Miscellaneous | Honorary member of the Catholic Union. | 15 Sep 2015 |
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.
Emma Lewell asked 52 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
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.
85 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
Emma Lewell represents South Shields. 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
Emma Lewell-Buck won with 41% of the votes, and Stephen Holt (Reform UK) came second with 23%. The seat has a different MP now: Emma Lewell (Labour).
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma Lewell-Buck | Labour | 15,122 | 41.1% |
| Stephen Holt | Reform UK | 8,469 | 23.0% |
| David Francis | Green Party | 5,433 | 14.8% |
| Craig Robinson | Conservative | 4,128 | 11.2% |
| Ahmed Khan | Independent | 2,270 | 6.2% |
| Jonathan Aibi | Liberal Democrat | 1,402 | 3.8% |
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 Emma Lewell took part in 177 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Emma Lewell voted the same way as their party in 174 of the 175 votes where parties gave instructions (99%), and went the other way in 1.
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 | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (1)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr | Privilege | For | Against |
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 | 93% | 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