Liz Twist, MP for Blaydon and Consett
Liz Twist has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Work and Pensions Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Levelling Up, Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Scotland) (Scotland Office) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2020 to 2023 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Work and Pensions Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Health Bill | 2026 | |
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] | 2022 | |
| Financial Services and Markets Bill | 2022 | |
| Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] | 2022 | |
| Finance (No.2) Bill | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Judicial Review and Courts Bill | 2021 |
Show the other 13
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| National Insurance Contributions Bill | 2021 | |
| Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill | 2021 | |
| Standing Orders Committee (Commons) | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Scottish Affairs Committee | 2020 to 2023 | |
| Procedure Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| European Statutory Instruments Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Committee of Privileges | 2019 | |
| Committee on Standards | 2019 | |
| European Statutory Instruments Committee | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Petitions Committee | 2017 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.
Liz Twist has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | UNISON - £2,000.00 | 26 Jan 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Co-Chair, UNISON group of Labour MPs | 11 Nov 2024 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in Maine et Loire | 7 Jul 2017 |
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.
Liz Twist asked 9 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.
118 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
Liz Twist represents Blaydon and Consett. 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
Liz Twist won with 50% of the votes, and David Ayre (Reform UK) came second with 24%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liz Twist | Labour | 21,160 | 50.1% |
| David Ayre | Reform UK | 10,007 | 23.7% |
| Angela Sterling | Conservative | 6,052 | 14.3% |
| Richard Simpson | Green Party | 2,589 | 6.1% |
| Vicky Anderson | Liberal Democrat | 2,273 | 5.4% |
| Paul Topping | Social Democratic Party | 135 | 0.3% |
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 Liz Twist took part in 245 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Liz Twist voted the same way as their party in 243 of the 243 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
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