Rt Hon Jo Stevens, MP for Cardiff East
Jo Stevens 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Wales (Wales Office) | 2024 to 2026 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (Wales Office) | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (Wales Office) | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Shadow Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office) | 2016 | |
| Shadow Minister (Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Welsh Grand Committee | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation | 2020 | |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2020 | |
| European Statutory Instruments Committee | 2020 to 2022 | |
| DCMS Sub-Committee on Disinformation | 2019 | |
| European Statutory Instruments Committee | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Justice Committee | 2017 |
Show the other 3
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Committee of Privileges | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Committee on Standards | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Business, Innovation and Skills Committee | 2015 to 2016 |
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.
Jo Stevens has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Solicitor, non-practising since 8 May 2015. | 19 Jul 2021 |
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.
Jo Stevens 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.
68 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
Jo Stevens represents Cardiff East. 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
Jo Stevens won with 40% of the votes, and Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrat) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jo Stevens | Labour | 15,833 | 40.5% |
| Rodney Berman | Liberal Democrat | 6,736 | 17.2% |
| Lee Canning | Reform UK | 4,980 | 12.7% |
| Sam Coates | Green Party | 3,916 | 10.0% |
| Beatrice Brandon | Conservative | 3,913 | 10.0% |
| Cadewyn Skelley | Plaid Cymru | 3,550 | 9.1% |
| John Williams | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 195 | 0.5% |
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 Jo Stevens took part in 165 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Jo Stevens voted the same way as their party in 163 of the 163 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 |
| 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