Gregor Poynton, MP for Livingston
Gregor Poynton has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2025 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls | 2025 | |
| Finance Bill | 2025 | |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 2024 to 2025 |
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.
Gregor Poynton has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Hanbury Strategy and Communications Limited - £750.00 | 8 Jun 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Football Association Limited - £360.00 | 1 Apr 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | One ticket to the Kebab Awards (the value of the ticket was below the threshold for registration under Category 3.) | 12 Mar 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Community Union - £1,000.00 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Daniel Luhde-Thompson - £10,000.00 | 13 Nov 2025 |
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.
Gregor Poynton 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.
65 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
Gregor Poynton represents Livingston. 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
Gregor Poynton won with 41% of the votes, and Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party) came second with 33%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregor Poynton | Labour | 18,324 | 40.9% |
| Hannah Bardell | Scottish National Party | 14,796 | 33.0% |
| David McLennan | Reform UK | 3,977 | 8.9% |
| Damian Doran-Timson | Conservative | 3,469 | 7.7% |
| Caron Lindsay | Liberal Democrat | 2,025 | 4.5% |
| Cameron Glasgow | Scottish Green Party | 1,704 | 3.8% |
| Debbie Ewen | Alba Party | 545 | 1.2% |
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 Gregor Poynton took part in 181 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Gregor Poynton voted the same way as their party in 179 of the 179 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 |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 4 Sep | Motion to sit in private | 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% |
| 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