Jeff Smith, MP for Manchester Withington
Jeff Smith has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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)) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Clean Power and Consumers) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) | 2021 | |
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2021 | |
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2015 to 2021 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Committee of Selection | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Football Governance Bill | 2024 | |
| Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] | 2023 | |
| Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee | 2023 | |
| Charities Bill [HL] | 2022 | |
| Charities Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee | 2022 |
Show the other 4
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Dormant Assets Bill [HL] | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL] | 2021 | |
| Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill | 2021 | |
| Environmental Audit Committee | 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.
Jeff Smith has 4 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Allwyn - £2,200.00 | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The English Football League (EFL) - £900.00 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | British Phonographic Industry Limited (BPI) - £2,860.00 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of the registered charity, Drug Science. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Jul 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.
Jeff Smith asked 12 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.
56 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
Jeff Smith represents Manchester Withington. 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
Jeff Smith won with 53% of the votes, and Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party) came second with 19%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Smith | Labour | 22,066 | 52.9% |
| Sam Easterby-Smith | Green Party | 8,084 | 19.4% |
| Richard Kilpatrick | Liberal Democrat | 5,412 | 13.0% |
| Sarah Garcia De Bustos | Conservative | 2,280 | 5.5% |
| Kaine Williams | Reform UK | 1,961 | 4.7% |
| Lizzie Greenwood | Workers Party of Britain | 1,774 | 4.3% |
| Wendy Andrew | Social Democratic Party | 154 | 0.4% |
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 Jeff Smith took part in 218 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Jeff Smith voted the same way as their party in 218 of the 218 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 7 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