Mike Wood, MP for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Mike Wood has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office); Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2022 to 2023 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Shadow Minister (Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2024 | |
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2024 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Rare Cancers Bill | 2025 | |
| Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill | 2025 | |
| Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Victims and Courts Bill | 2025 | |
| Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill | 2025 | |
| Committee of Selection | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Football Governance Bill | 2024 | |
| Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL] | 2024 |
Show the other 6
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Media Bill | 2023 | |
| Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill | 2023 | |
| Online Safety (Re-committed Clauses and Schedules) Bill | 2022 | |
| International Trade Committee | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Nationality and Borders Bill | 2021 | |
| European Scrutiny Committee | 2016 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.
Mike Wood has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Silverstone Circuits Limited - £1,100.00 | 27 Jul 2026 |
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.
Mike Wood asked 3005 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.
59 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
Mike Wood represents Kingswinford and South Staffordshire. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Mike Wood won with 40% of the votes, and Sally Benton (Labour) came second with 26%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Wood | Conservative | 18,199 | 40.3% |
| Sally Benton | Labour | 11,896 | 26.3% |
| Gary Dale | Reform UK | 9,928 | 22.0% |
| Gully Bansal | Liberal Democrat | 2,080 | 4.6% |
| Claire McIlvenna | Green Party | 2,077 | 4.6% |
| Shaz Saleem | Independent | 1,000 | 2.2% |
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 Mike Wood took part in 218 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Mike Wood voted the same way as their party in 217 of the 217 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 | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | 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% | 100% |
| 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