Rachel Hopkins, MP for Luton South and South Bedfordshire
Rachel Hopkins has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Assistant Whip; Modernisation Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2026 to now | Now |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Defence) (Ministry of Defence) | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office) | 2021 to 2022 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Modernisation Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill | 2025 | |
| Armed Forces Commissioner Bill | 2024 | |
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill | 2024 | |
| Prison Media Bill | 2024 | |
| Football Governance Bill | 2024 | |
| School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill | 2024 |
Show the other 10
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2024 | |
| Justice Committee | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill | 2023 | |
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill | 2021 | |
| Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill | 2021 | |
| Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill | 2021 | |
| Building Safety Bill | 2021 | |
| Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee | 2020 to 2022 | |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2020 to 2022 |
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.
Rachel Hopkins has 2 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Vice President of the LGA, which works with councils to support, promote and improve local government. | 9 Mar 2021 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in Luton | 11 Jan 2020 |
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.
Rachel Hopkins asked 3 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.
85 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
Rachel Hopkins represents Luton South and South Bedfordshire. 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
Rachel Hopkins won with 35% of the votes, and Mark Versallion (Conservative) came second with 18%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Hopkins | Labour | 13,593 | 35.4% |
| Mark Versallion | Conservative | 6,735 | 17.5% |
| Attiq Malik | Independent | 5,384 | 14.0% |
| Norman Maclean | Reform UK | 4,759 | 12.4% |
| Yasin Rehman | Workers Party of Britain | 3,110 | 8.1% |
| Edward Carpenter | Green Party | 2,401 | 6.3% |
| Dominic Griffiths | Liberal Democrat | 2,400 | 6.3% |
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 Rachel Hopkins took part in 253 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Rachel Hopkins voted the same way as their party in 251 of the 251 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