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Rt Hon Dame Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey

Angela Eagle has been an MP since 1992. Currently: Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Roles and committees

Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.

In government

PostWhen
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)2026 to nowNow
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office)2026
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)2025 to 2026
Minister of State (Home Office) (Home Office)2024 to 2025
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions)2009 to 2010
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) (HM Treasury)2007 to 2009
Parliamentary Secretary (Home office) (Home Office)2001 to 2002
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security) (Department of Social Security)1998 to 2001
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PostWhen
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions)1997 to 1998

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (HM Official Opposition)2015 to 2016
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (Office of the Leader of the House of Commons)2011 to 2015
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury)2010 to 2011
Shadow Minister (Treasury) (HM Treasury)2010
Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons))1996 to 1997

Committees

PostWhen
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill2025
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament2024
Finance (No. 2) Bill2023
Financial Services and Markets Bill2022
Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations2022 to 2024
Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill2021
Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act2020 to 2024
Panel of Chairs2020 to 2024
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Procedure Committee2020 to 2023
Treasury Committee2020 to 2024
European Statutory Instruments Committee2018 to 2019
Palace of Westminster (Joint Committee)2015
House of Commons Commission2015
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority2011 to 2015
Public Accounts Committee2007 to 2009
Treasury Committee2003 to 2007
Public Accounts Committee2002 to 2003
Public Accounts Committee1995 to 1996

Other posts

PostWhen
Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee2005 to 2010

Political Interests

Economic policyNHSpolitics of sport

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 Angela Eagle.

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.

Angela Eagle 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.

PAID IN 2025-26
£13,384
Office costs · claims for running an office£6,514
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£6,870

39 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data

Election result and area

Angela Eagle represents Wallasey. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Angela Eagle

Labour

MAJORITY
17,996

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
58%

of people who could vote did

Angela Eagle won with 58% of the votes, and David Burgess-Joyce (Reform UK) came second with 16%.

Votes for each party

Labour58% · 24,674
Reform UK16% · 6,678
Conservative12% · 4,987
Green Party9% · 3,905
Liberal Democrat4% · 1,843
Workers Party of Britain1% · 462
Everyone else0% · 197
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Angela EagleLabour24,67457.7%
David Burgess-JoyceReform UK6,67815.6%
Robbie LammasConservative4,98711.7%
Jane TurnerGreen Party3,9059.1%
Vicky DownieLiberal Democrat1,8434.3%
Philip BimpsonWorkers Party of Britain4621.1%
Ian PughFreedom Alliance1970.5%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£696 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
3.9%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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How they vote

In the last 12 months Angela Eagle took part in 178 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Angela Eagle voted the same way as their party in 178 of the 178 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

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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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