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Michael Payne, MP for Gedling

Michael Payne has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Public Accounts Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill2025
Public Accounts Committee2024 to nowNow

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.

Michael Payne has 10 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to France between 30 April 2026 and 04 May 202631 May 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Poland between 02 November 2025 and 04 November 202530 Nov 2025
MiscellaneousMembership Secretary of Arnold Branch Labour Party.4 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousA member of Nottingham Playhouse Strategic Board. This is an unpaid role.4 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousLGBT+ Officer of Gedling Constituency Labour Party.4 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousA member of the Carlton Town Board. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousTreasurer of St. Mary's Community Kitchen in Arnold. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousChair of Friends of Church Lane & St. Mary's Play Park & Recreation Ground. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousA member of the Gedling UK Shared Prosperity Fund Local Partnership Group. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousGedling Borough Councillor, (unpaid since 10 October 2024 and previously registered under Category 1).2 Aug 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.

Michael Payne asked 5 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care2
Department for Education1
Ministry of Defence1
Department for Business and Trade1

Latest questions

18 May 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 2 Jun 2026
10 Mar 2026 · to the Ministry of Defence
Answered 16 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 19 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 12 Mar 2026
4 Dec 2025 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 12 Dec 2025

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
£26,572
Office costs · claims for running an office£22,893
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£3,679

55 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

Michael Payne represents Gedling. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Michael Payne

Labour

MAJORITY
11,881

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
63%

of people who could vote did

Michael Payne won with 48% of the votes, and Tom Randall (Conservative) came second with 23%.

Votes for each party

Labour48% · 23,278
Conservative23% · 11,397
Reform UK17% · 8,211
Green Party6% · 3,122
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,473
Independent0% · 241
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Michael PayneLabour23,27847.8%
Tom RandallConservative11,39723.4%
Simon ChristyReform UK8,21116.9%
Dominic BerryGreen Party3,1226.4%
Tad JonesLiberal Democrat2,4735.1%
Irenea MarriottIndependent2410.5%

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
£752 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
3.4%
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 Michael Payne took part in 202 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Michael Payne voted the same way as their party in 200 of the 200 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
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteForFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateForFree vote
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 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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MonthThis MPParty average
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Jan 26100%100%
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May 26100%100%
Jun 26100%100%
Jul 26100%99%
Sep 26100%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