Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley South
Stephanie Peacock has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2024 to 2026 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Defence) (Ministry of Defence) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2018 to 2019 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Football Governance Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Football Governance Bill | 2024 | |
| Media Bill | 2023 | |
| Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Online Safety (Re-committed Clauses and Schedules) Bill | 2022 | |
| Northern Ireland Affairs Committee | 2020 to 2022 | |
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2019 | |
| International Trade Committee | 2017 to 2018 |
Show the other 1
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 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.
No interests are currently registered for Stephanie Peacock.
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.
Stephanie Peacock 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.
51 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
Stephanie Peacock represents Barnsley South. 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
Stephanie Peacock won with 47% of the votes, and David White (Reform UK) came second with 33%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Peacock | Labour | 16,399 | 46.7% |
| David White | Reform UK | 11,651 | 33.2% |
| Suzanne Pearson | Conservative | 3,247 | 9.3% |
| Trevor Mayne | Green Party | 1,521 | 4.3% |
| Simon Clement-Jones | Liberal Democrat | 1,172 | 3.3% |
| Simon Biltcliffe | The Yorkshire Party | 716 | 2.0% |
| Terry Robinson | Socialist Labour Party | 227 | 0.6% |
| Maxine Spencer | English Democrats | 149 | 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 Stephanie Peacock took part in 168 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Stephanie Peacock voted the same way as their party in 166 of the 166 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 |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | 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 |
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