Jess Phillips, MP for Birmingham Yardley
Jess Phillips has been an MP since 2015.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2024 to 2026 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Domestic Violence and Safeguarding) (Home Office) | 2020 to 2023 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Crime and Policing Bill | 2025 | |
| Education Committee | 2024 | |
| Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill | 2024 | |
| Criminal Justice Bill | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Victims and Prisoners Bill | 2023 | |
| Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill | 2023 | |
| Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill | 2022 | |
| National Security Bill | 2022 |
Show the other 7
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Local Government (Disqualification) Bill | 2021 | |
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Backbench Business Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion | 2016 to 2019 | |
| Backbench Business Committee | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Backbench Business Committee | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2015 to 2017 |
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.
Jess Phillips has 15 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 01 August 2026 - £1,640.00 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings | Media Appearance - LBC | 26 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 25 August 2026 - £1,000.00 | 26 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings | Podcast appearance - United Agents | 26 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 12 February 2026 - £365.92 | 13 Feb 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre - £204.00 | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre - £298.00 | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £600.00 | 29 Oct 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £600.00 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | A director of Birmingham Museums Trust which manages Birmingham Museums including a site in my constituency. This is an unpaid role. | 18 Sep 2023 |
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| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | A trustee of the Stacy Wanjiku Welfare Trust. Having raised money for the education and welfare of Stacey Wanjiru I am a trustee of the fund. Stacey is the daughter of Agnes Wanjiru a Kenyan woman murdered in 2012 in a case linked to British Armed Forces. This is an unpaid role. | 24 Mar 2022 |
| Employment and earnings | Library copyright fees - Public Lending Right | – |
| Employment and earnings | Royalties | – |
| Employment and earnings | Writing articles | – |
| Employment and earnings | Writing books - United Agents | – |
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.
Jess Phillips 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.
104 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
Jess Phillips represents Birmingham Yardley. 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
Jess Phillips won with 31% of the votes, and Jody McIntyre (Workers Party of Britain) came second with 29%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jess Phillips | Labour | 11,275 | 31.2% |
| Jody McIntyre | Workers Party of Britain | 10,582 | 29.3% |
| Nora Kamberi | Reform UK | 5,061 | 14.0% |
| Roger Harmer | Liberal Democrat | 3,634 | 10.1% |
| Yvonne Clements | Conservative | 3,634 | 10.1% |
| Roxanne Green | Green Party | 1,958 | 5.4% |
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 Jess Phillips took part in 188 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Jess Phillips voted the same way as their party in 186 of the 186 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 |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | 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