MP for Leigh and Atherton
Jo Platt is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Leigh and Atherton, elected in 2024. She sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and the Modernisation Committee, and has prior parliamentary experience including a spell as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office (2018–2019) and service on several policy committees.
She has 100% party loyalty and 30% attendance (party average 33%). She has two rebel votes and a centrist political stance (52/100). In voting on key topics, she has a mixture of positions on Universal Credit and Trade union powers, generally supports bus services regulation, VAT changes, renter protections and data protection, and generally opposes stricter immigration controls and harsher prison sentencing.
Declared financial interests include two miscellaneous entries.
Generated 21 February 2026
6 positions
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Since Oct 2024
Modernisation Committee
Since Sept 2024
Crime and Policing Bill
Mar 2025 - May 2025
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Based on parliamentary votes
has voted a mixture of ways on universal credit
has generally voted for bus services regulation
has generally voted against workers rights protections
has voted a mixture of ways on vat changes
has generally voted against trade union powers
has generally voted against transgender rights
has generally voted against immigration controls
has generally voted against prison sentencing
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
