Katie White, MP for Leeds North West
Katie White has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero).
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 Energy Security and Net Zero) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | 2025 to 2026 |
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.
Katie White has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Italy between 27 July 2026 and 31 July 2026 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The Conduit Club - £1,750.00 | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Wellcome Trust - £1,500.00 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | I have become an ambassador for Leeds Women’s Aid: this is an unpaid role. | 27 May 2025 |
| Family members engaged in third-party lobbying | Sam White employed as Lobbyist | 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.
Katie White 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.
51 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
Katie White represents Leeds North West. 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
Katie White won with 46% of the votes, and Thomas Averre (Conservative) came second with 22%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katie White | Labour | 22,882 | 46.0% |
| Thomas Averre | Conservative | 10,986 | 22.1% |
| Jayne Bond | Reform UK | 5,935 | 11.9% |
| Ryk Downes | Liberal Democrat | 5,641 | 11.3% |
| Mick Bradley | Green Party | 3,231 | 6.5% |
| Bob Buxton | The Yorkshire Party | 1,024 | 2.1% |
| Kathy Bushell | Social Democratic Party | 78 | 0.2% |
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 Katie White took part in 162 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Katie White voted the same way as their party in 160 of the 160 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 |
| 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 |
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