Leigh Ingham, MP for Stafford
Leigh Ingham has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Immigration and Asylum Bill; Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority; Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Immigration and Asylum Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 2026 to now | Now |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls | 2026 to now | Now |
| Modernisation Committee | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill | 2025 | |
| Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 2025 |
Show the other 3
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker's Conference (2024) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Northern Ireland Affairs 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.
Leigh Ingham has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Taiwan between 28 March 2026 and 03 April 2026 | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Elected member of the Executive of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union (BGIPU). This is an unpaid role. | 29 Jan 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Governor of Burton Manor School, Stafford. This is an unpaid role. | 25 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.
Leigh Ingham asked 25 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.
101 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
Leigh Ingham represents Stafford. 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
Leigh Ingham won with 40% of the votes, and Theo Clarke (Conservative) came second with 30%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Ingham | Labour | 18,531 | 40.3% |
| Theo Clarke | Conservative | 13,936 | 30.3% |
| Michael Riley | Reform UK | 8,612 | 18.7% |
| Scott Spencer | Green Party | 2,856 | 6.2% |
| Peter Andras | Liberal Democrat | 1,676 | 3.6% |
| Titus Anything | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 307 | 0.7% |
| Craig Morton | Heritage Party | 91 | 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 Leigh Ingham took part in 171 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Leigh Ingham voted the same way as their party in 169 of the 169 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