Rebecca Long Bailey, MP for Salford
Rebecca Long Bailey has been an MP since 2015.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education (Department for Education) | 2020 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) | 2017 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury) | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Shadow Minister (Treasury) (HM Treasury) | 2015 to 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill | 2024 | |
| Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL] | 2022 | |
| Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill | 2022 | |
| Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL] | 2021 | |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2021 to 2024 |
Other posts
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee | 2015 to 2019 |
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.
Rebecca Long Bailey has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Key Cities (Network) - £1,667.00 | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union - £19,440.00 | 19 Nov 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | National Union of Journalists - £19,606.00 | 19 Nov 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union - £18,516.00 | 8 Nov 2024 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | National Union of Journalists (NUJ) - £18,672.00 | 8 Nov 2024 |
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.
Rebecca Long Bailey asked 54 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.
69 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
Rebecca Long Bailey represents Salford. 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
Rebecca Long-Bailey won with 53% of the votes, and Keith Whalley (Reform UK) came second with 15%. The seat has a different MP now: Rebecca Long Bailey (Labour).
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca Long-Bailey | Labour | 21,132 | 53.2% |
| Keith Whalley | Reform UK | 6,031 | 15.2% |
| Wendy Olsen | Green Party | 5,188 | 13.1% |
| Hilary Scott | Conservative | 3,583 | 9.0% |
| Jake Austin | Liberal Democrat | 2,752 | 6.9% |
| Mustafa Abdullah | Workers Party of Britain | 791 | 2.0% |
| Stephen Lewthwaite | Social Democratic Party | 227 | 0.6% |
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 Rebecca Long Bailey took part in 219 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Rebecca Long Bailey voted the same way as their party in 215 of the 218 votes where parties gave instructions (99%), and went the other way in 3.
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 | 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 |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (3)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul | Immigration and asylum: the first main vote | Against | For |
| 28 Apr | Privilege | For | Against |
| 14 Apr | Crime and policing: changes from the House of Lords | Against | For |
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 | 96% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 88% | 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