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Michael Wheeler, MP for Worsley and Eccles

Michael Wheeler has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Assistant Whip; Procedure Committee.

Roles and committees

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

In government

PostWhen
Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons))2026 to nowNow

Committees

PostWhen
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]2025
Committee on Standards2025 to 2026
Committee of Privileges2025 to 2026
Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]2025
Employment Rights Bill2024 to 2025
Procedure Committee2024 to nowNow
Renters’ Rights Bill2024

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 Wheeler has 2 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesWorld Rugby Ltd - £386.401 Oct 2025
MiscellaneousLabour Party Staff Superannuation Scheme trustee. 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.

Michael Wheeler asked 87 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Business and Trade33
Home Office11
Department of Health and Social Care11
Department for Education10
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government8

Latest questions

13 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 4 Aug 2026
8 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 14 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 14 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 13 Jul 2026

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
£13,950
Office costs · claims for running an office£10,825
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£3,124

67 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 Wheeler represents Worsley and Eccles. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Michael Wheeler

Labour

MAJORITY
11,091

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
54%

of people who could vote did

Michael Wheeler won with 48% of the votes, and Craig Birtwistle (Reform UK) came second with 22%.

Votes for each party

Labour48% · 20,277
Reform UK22% · 9,186
Conservative16% · 6,791
Green Party8% · 3,283
Liberal Democrat4% · 1,851
Workers Party of Britain1% · 466
Everyone else2% · 689
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Michael WheelerLabour20,27747.7%
Craig BirtwistleReform UK9,18621.6%
Bradley MitchellConservative6,79116.0%
David JonesGreen Party3,2837.7%
Jemma De VincenzoLiberal Democrat1,8514.4%
Nas BarghoutiWorkers Party of Britain4661.1%
Danny MoloneyIndependent4481.1%
Sally GriffithsTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition2410.6%

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
£731 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
4.2%
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 Wheeler took part in 232 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Michael Wheeler voted the same way as their party in 230 of the 230 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
View data table
MonthThis MPParty average
Oct 25100%100%
Nov 25100%100%
Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
Feb 26100%100%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
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