MP for Brent West
Barry Gardiner is a Labour (Co-op) MP for Brent West, first elected in 1997. He currently sits on the Environmental Audit Committee (since October 2024) and has a long parliamentary career that includes roles such as Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change and several environment-related committee assignments.
He shows high party loyalty (99%) and his voting attendance is 66% (above his party average). He sits on the centre-left of the spectrum (37/100) and has 9 rebel votes against his party. On policy, he generally supported NHS funding and Universal Credit, opposed tighter immigration controls and the Rwanda deportation scheme, and has mixed voting on VAT changes, transgender rights, and asylum policy.
He has 32 declared financial interests, including 20 entries for ad hoc payments linked to employment, four entries for other earnings, four miscellaneous interests, three visits outside the UK, and one entry noting a family member employed.
Generated 21 February 2026
25 positions
Environmental Audit Committee
Since Oct 2024
Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill
May 2024 - May 2024
Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Energy Security and Net Zero Committee
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research
Jan 2023 - May 2024
Based on parliamentary votes
has voted a mixture of ways on universal credit
has almost always voted against immigration controls
has voted a mixture of ways on bus services regulation
has generally voted against vat changes
has almost always voted against asylum system
has generally voted against transgender rights
has generally voted against trade union powers
has voted a mixture of ways on nhs funding
Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada
8 Feb 2017
Cross-Border Trade Resolution: Amendment (e)
20 Nov 2017
Motion on National Policy Statement and New Runway Capacity
25 Jun 2018
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 24
20 Jun 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 12
20 Jun 2025
Referendums Relating to Council Tax Increases (Principles) (England) Report 2026-27
Local Government Finance Report (England) 2026-27
Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026
Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2026
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill: Second Reading