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Division Votes
8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 294 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 300 Noes - 96
8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 305 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 162
8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 309 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 326 Noes - 162
8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 305 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 395 Noes - 98
8 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 308 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 327 Noes - 96
9 Dec 2025 - Railways Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 316 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 332
9 Dec 2025 - Railways Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 314 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 329 Noes - 173
10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 311 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 98 Noes - 325
10 Dec 2025 - Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 290 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 90 Noes - 297
10 Dec 2025 - Seasonal Work - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 312 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 98
15 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 311 Noes - 96
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 333 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 118 Noes - 340
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 329 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 341 Noes - 195
17 Dec 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context Liz Twist voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 300 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 165

Speeches
Liz Twist speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (96 words) Wednesday 17th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office
Liz Twist speeches from: Oral Answers to Questions Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (54 words) Thursday 11th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Business and Trade
Liz Twist speeches from: Business of the House Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (74 words) Thursday 11th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House
Liz Twist speeches from: Fairtrade Certification Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (72 words) Thursday 11th December 2025 - Westminster Hall Department for Business and Trade
Liz Twist speeches from: Business of the House Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (88 words) Thursday 4th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House
Liz Twist speeches from: Acquired Brain Injury Action Plan Liz Twist contributed 1 speech (1,036 words) Thursday 4th December 2025 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care

Written Answers
Living Wage and Minimum Wage Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon and Consett) Friday 12th December 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on helping reduce the number of employers underpaying the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage. Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) As a Government we are clear: everyone must get the pay they are entitled to. In 2024/25, HMRC identified £5.8 million owed to 25,000 workers and issued 750 penalties worth £4.2 million to employers. We are going further- setting up the Fair Work Agency to improve join up with other enforcement and will ensure that every complaint a worker makes will be followed up. We will also publish names of employers breaching the minimum wage more regularly, helping to level the playing field for the vast majority of businesses who do play by the rules. These reforms will benefit constituents in my honourable friend's area and across the country.

Written Answers

Living Wage and Minimum Wage
Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon and Consett)
Friday 12th December 2025

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on helping reduce the number of employers underpaying the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.

Answered by Kate Dearden - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

As a Government we are clear: everyone must get the pay they are entitled to.

In 2024/25, HMRC identified £5.8 million owed to 25,000 workers and issued 750 penalties worth £4.2 million to employers.

We are going further- setting up the Fair Work Agency to improve join up with other enforcement and will ensure that every complaint a worker makes will be followed up. We will also publish names of employers breaching the minimum wage more regularly, helping to level the playing field for the vast majority of businesses who do play by the rules.

These reforms will benefit constituents in my honourable friend's area and across the country.

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4 Dec 2025, 11:35 a.m. - House of Commons " Liz Twist. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It's now been five " Liz Twist MP (Blaydon and Consett, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
17 Dec 2025, 12:23 p.m. - House of Commons " Liz Twist. >> Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In 2020, in 2020, my constituents John and " Liz Twist MP (Blaydon and Consett, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript

Calendar
Wednesday 14th January 2026 11:30 a.m. Scotland Office Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Scotland Graham Leadbitter: What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her policies on the cost of living in Scotland. Alan Gemmell: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Kenneth Stevenson: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Scott Arthur: What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on funding for tertiary education. Elaine Stewart: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle child poverty in Scotland. Liz Twist: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Liz Saville Roberts: What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her policies on the cost of living in Scotland. Shaun Davies: Whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on support for mountain rescue services. Mike Reader: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Euan Stainbank: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. John Lamont: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help prevent the overdevelopment of electricity infrastructure in rural communities in Scotland. David Mundell: What assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress in delivering the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal. Lillian Jones: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Ayrshire. Chris Kane: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Bradley Thomas: What estimate he has made of the time it will take to create 1,000 new jobs in the energy sector in Aberdeen. View calendar - Add to calendar
Monday 12th January 2026 2:30 p.m. Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Housing, Communities and Local Government Damian Hinds: If he will review the methodology for assessing housing affordability used to set local house building targets. Peter Prinsley: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Munira Wilson: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Katie Lam: What discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the rate of housebuilding in London. Lincoln Jopp: What recent progress his Department has made on delivering 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament. Mary Kelly Foy: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Juliet Campbell: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Tulip Siddiq: What steps he is taking to implement the provisions on leasehold reform in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. Sean Woodcock: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Banbury. Gill Furniss: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Martin Wrigley: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. David Smith: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle the causes of homelessness in North Northumberland constituency. Luke Evans: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Liz Twist: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Blaydon and Consett constituency. Tom Collins: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. David Chadwick: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of sales commission charges on park home residents. Yuan Yang: What steps he plans to take to reform the property management system. Steve Darling: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Dan Carden: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle private rent inflation. Liz Twist: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Perran Moon: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Camborne and Redruth constituency. Mary Kelly Foy: What steps he plans to take to reform the leasehold system. Sonia Kumar: If he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of establishing a statutory national register of electricians. Alex Baker: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Aldershot constituency. James McMurdock: What recent discussions he has had with Basildon and Thurrock councils on proposals to postpone the local elections of May 2026. Liam Conlon: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle damp and mould in social housing. Afzal Khan: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-27 on Greater Manchester. Gareth Snell: What steps his Department is taking to help support housebuilding in Stoke-on-Trent. Jonathan Brash: What assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of trends in the level of the dispersal of homeless families from local authorities in the South East and the Midlands to the North East. Caroline Dinenage: What steps he is taking to strengthen the rights of leaseholders. Torcuil Crichton: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of Pride in Place funding on neighbourhoods in Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency. Elsie Blundell: If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring at least 10% of social housing stock to be let as furnished. Lee Barron: What steps he is taking to consult with communities on the use of Pride in Place funding in Corby and East Northamptonshire constituency. Simon Opher: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Stroud. Chris Vince: What steps he is taking to help reduce the number of families in temporary accommodation in Harlow constituency. View calendar - Add to calendar

Calendar

Wednesday 14th January 2026 11:30 a.m.
Scotland Office

Oral questions - Main Chamber
Subject: Scotland
Graham Leadbitter: What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her policies on the cost of living in Scotland. Alan Gemmell: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Kenneth Stevenson: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Scott Arthur: What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on funding for tertiary education. Elaine Stewart: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle child poverty in Scotland. Liz Twist: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Liz Saville Roberts: What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of her policies on the cost of living in Scotland. Shaun Davies: Whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on support for mountain rescue services. Mike Reader: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Euan Stainbank: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. John Lamont: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help prevent the overdevelopment of electricity infrastructure in rural communities in Scotland. David Mundell: What assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress in delivering the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal. Lillian Jones: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Ayrshire. Chris Kane: What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support economic growth in Scotland. Bradley Thomas: What estimate he has made of the time it will take to create 1,000 new jobs in the energy sector in Aberdeen. View calendar - Add to calendar

Monday 12th January 2026 2:30 p.m.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Oral questions - Main Chamber
Subject: Housing, Communities and Local Government
Damian Hinds: If he will review the methodology for assessing housing affordability used to set local house building targets. Peter Prinsley: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Munira Wilson: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Katie Lam: What discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on the rate of housebuilding in London. Lincoln Jopp: What recent progress his Department has made on delivering 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament. Mary Kelly Foy: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Juliet Campbell: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Tulip Siddiq: What steps he is taking to implement the provisions on leasehold reform in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. Sean Woodcock: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Banbury. Gill Furniss: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Martin Wrigley: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. David Smith: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle the causes of homelessness in North Northumberland constituency. Luke Evans: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Liz Twist: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Blaydon and Consett constituency. Tom Collins: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. David Chadwick: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of sales commission charges on park home residents. Yuan Yang: What steps he plans to take to reform the property management system. Steve Darling: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Dan Carden: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle private rent inflation. Liz Twist: If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities. Perran Moon: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Camborne and Redruth constituency. Mary Kelly Foy: What steps he plans to take to reform the leasehold system. Sonia Kumar: If he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of establishing a statutory national register of electricians. Alex Baker: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Aldershot constituency. James McMurdock: What recent discussions he has had with Basildon and Thurrock councils on proposals to postpone the local elections of May 2026. Liam Conlon: What steps his Department is taking to help tackle damp and mould in social housing. Afzal Khan: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement 2026-27 on Greater Manchester. Gareth Snell: What steps his Department is taking to help support housebuilding in Stoke-on-Trent. Jonathan Brash: What assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of trends in the level of the dispersal of homeless families from local authorities in the South East and the Midlands to the North East. Caroline Dinenage: What steps he is taking to strengthen the rights of leaseholders. Torcuil Crichton: What assessment he has made of the potential impact of Pride in Place funding on neighbourhoods in Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency. Elsie Blundell: If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring at least 10% of social housing stock to be let as furnished. Lee Barron: What steps he is taking to consult with communities on the use of Pride in Place funding in Corby and East Northamptonshire constituency. Simon Opher: What steps he is taking to build more social and affordable homes in Stroud. Chris Vince: What steps he is taking to help reduce the number of families in temporary accommodation in Harlow constituency. View calendar - Add to calendar

Parliamentary Debates
Acquired Brain Injury Action Plan 32 speeches (12,398 words) Thursday 4th December 2025 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) Friend the Member for Blaydon and Consett (Liz Twist) mentioned mental health. - Link to Speech