Richard Baker, MP for Glenrothes and Mid Fife
Richard Baker has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
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.
Richard Baker has 6 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in Val de Louyre | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Falkland Islands between 17 February 2025 and 21 February 2025 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Jordan between 20 July 2025 and 25 July 2025 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Ukraine between 10 September 2025 and 15 September 2025 | 6 Oct 2025 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in Aberdeen | 4 Jul 2025 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in Edinburgh | 26 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.
Richard Baker asked 13 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
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.
36 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
Richard Baker represents Glenrothes and Mid Fife. 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
Richard Baker won with 44% of the votes, and John Beare (Scottish National Party) came second with 36%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Baker | Labour | 15,994 | 44.3% |
| John Beare | Scottish National Party | 13,040 | 36.1% |
| Ian Smith | Reform UK | 3,528 | 9.8% |
| Debbie MacCallum | Conservative | 1,973 | 5.5% |
| Jill Reilly | Liberal Democrat | 1,604 | 4.4% |
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 Richard Baker took part in 154 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Richard Baker voted the same way as their party in 152 of the 152 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 | Against | 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 |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: 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