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Michael Shanks

Labour · MP for Rutherglen · Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

  • Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) · since 2025-09-06
Who
Labour
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Where
Rutherglen
Commons
Votes recorded
21
2026-07-01 – 2026-09-08
Declared interests
Not measured
Register coverage stated below
Connections
8
21 votes counted separately
Offices held
3
1 current
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How have they voted?
Held
21

21 recorded votes held against the published identifier.

Voted No
9
Did not vote
6
Voted Aye
6
Who pays them?
Not measured
Not measured

The registered financial interests dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

What power have they held?
Held
6

6 offices and committee memberships held against the published identifier.

Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
2025-09-06
Who are they connected to?
Held
8

8 identifier-linked connections held against the published identifier.

Committee
3
Office held
3
Constituency
1
Party
1
What have they asked and who have they met?
Not measured
Not measured

The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured. No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.

Written questions
Not measured
Ministerial meetings
None found
Committees
3
What changed most recently?
Held
2026-09-08

27 distinct events across 2 publishers.

Voted No: Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140
2026-09-08
Voted No: Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142
2026-09-08
Voted No: Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143
2026-09-08
§ 01

Voting record

Held
Voted No
9
Did not vote
6
Voted Aye
6

Divisions held from 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-08. Counts only — Folio publishes no rebellion rates or ideological scores.

§ 02

Financial interests

Not measured

The registered financial interests dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 03

Career and offices

Held
Committees
§ 04

Connections

Held

Connections are links proved by a published identifier. 21 recorded votes are this person's own activity and are counted in the voting record, not here.

Committee
3
Constituency
1
Party
1
§ 05

Parliamentary activity

Written questions
Not measured

The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Ministerial meetings
None found

No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.

§ 06

Recent activity

Showing the 12 most recent of 27 distinct events.

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Raw rows read
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Distinct events
27
Duplicates collapsed
6
Publishers
  • UK Parliament Divisions
    Published source
    21 events
  • UK Parliament Members API
    Published source
    6 events
Identity
Coverage by domain
  • Votes
    21 votes held against the published identifier.
    21
  • Financial interests
    The financial interests dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.
    Not measured
  • Career
    6 career held against the published identifier.
    6
  • Connections
    8 connections held against the published identifier.
    8
  • Written questions
    The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.
    Not measured
  • Ministerial meetings
    No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.
    None found
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