Kate Dearden, MP for Halifax
Kate Dearden has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2024 to 2025 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill | 2025 | |
| Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Armed Forces Commissioner Bill | 2024 |
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.
Kate Dearden has 7 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The Football Association - £500.00 | 2 May 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | I organised a fundraiser for WomenCentre (Calderdale and Kirklees), to mark International Women’s Day | 20 Mar 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Labour Renaissance Advisory Board. This is an unpaid role. | 4 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Advisory board member for the Labour Climate and Environment Forum. This is an unpaid role. | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | National Executive Committee member of Labour Women's Network. This is an unpaid role. | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Board member of United Against Malnutrition and Hunger. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Board member of Unions21. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Jul 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.
Kate Dearden 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.
96 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
Kate Dearden represents Halifax. 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
Kate Dearden won with 35% of the votes, and Hazel Sharp (Conservative) came second with 20%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kate Dearden | Labour | 14,135 | 35.1% |
| Hazel Sharp | Conservative | 7,866 | 19.6% |
| James Griffith-Jones | Reform UK | 7,811 | 19.4% |
| Martin Hey | Green Party | 4,133 | 10.3% |
| Shakir Saghir | Workers Party of Britain | 2,543 | 6.3% |
| Samuel Jackson | Liberal Democrat | 2,359 | 5.9% |
| Perveen Hussain | Independent | 1,367 | 3.4% |
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 Kate Dearden took part in 208 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Kate Dearden voted the same way as their party in 208 of the 208 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 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