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Information between 8th September 2025 - 8th October 2025

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Division Votes
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 332 Noes - 160
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 328 Noes - 160
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 327 Noes - 164
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 326 Noes - 160
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 302 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 170
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 314 Noes - 178
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 301 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 329 Noes - 163
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 330 Noes - 158
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 301 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 316 Noes - 161
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 302 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 161
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 302 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 161
15 Sep 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 316 Noes - 172
10 Sep 2025 - Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 282 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 362 Noes - 87
10 Sep 2025 - Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 288 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 153 Noes - 300
9 Sep 2025 - Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 307 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 179
9 Sep 2025 - Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 314 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 116 Noes - 333
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 315 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 335 Noes - 160
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 317 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 401 Noes - 96
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 316 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 325 Noes - 171
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 317 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 404 Noes - 98
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks 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 - 336 Noes - 158
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 319 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 402 Noes - 97
8 Sep 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Michael Shanks voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 317 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Tally: Ayes - 398 Noes - 93


Speeches
Michael Shanks speeches from: Significant Energy Infrastructure Projects: Suffolk Coast
Michael Shanks contributed 3 speeches (2,871 words)
Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade
Michael Shanks speeches from: Great British Energy: Strategic Priorities
Michael Shanks contributed 1 speech (444 words)
Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Written Statements
Department for Business and Trade
Michael Shanks speeches from: Hydrogen Supply Chains
Michael Shanks contributed 4 speeches (2,429 words)
Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade



Michael Shanks mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Points of Order
11 speeches (1,312 words)
Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) Member for Rutherglen (Michael Shanks), now Minister of State in the Department for Energy Security and - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 10th September 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Minister for Energy relating to Contingent Liabilities Notification: Sizewell C Funded Decommissioning Programme and Government Support Package, dated 1 September 2025

Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Michael Shanks MP Minister for

Wednesday 10th September 2025
Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Energy at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero relating to the Sizewell C nuclear power station project, 01 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Found: Michael Shanks MP Minister for

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Lancaster University, The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Dr Roger Harrabin

Building support for the energy transition - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: with very few exceptions—although you have not named them, I guess I will, Ed Miliband and Michael Shanks

Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Greenpeace UK, Involve, and Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations

Building support for the energy transition - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: with very few exceptions—although you have not named them, I guess I will, Ed Miliband and Michael Shanks



Department Publications - Transparency
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: DESNZ: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, April to June 2025
Document: (webpage)

Found: Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: DESNZ: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, April to June 2025
Document: View online (webpage)

Found:

Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality: August 2025
Document: (webpage)

Found: Return Nil Return Kerry McCarthy Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality: August 2025
Document: View online (webpage)

Found:

Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality: August 2025
Document: View online (webpage)

Found:

Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Register of Ministers’ Gifts and Hospitality: August 2025
Document: (webpage)

Found: Return Nil Return Nil Return Kerry McCarthy Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Nil Return Michael Shanks

Monday 15th September 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: DESNZ annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025
Document: (PDF)

Found: McCarthy MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Climate) – from 9 July 2024 • Michael Shanks



Department Publications - News and Communications
Thursday 25th September 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: Pioneering carbon capture projects ready for construction
Document: Pioneering carbon capture projects ready for construction (webpage)

Found: Energy Minister Michael Shanks said:  Our clean energy mission means good jobs, regional growth, and



Deposited Papers
Monday 6th October 2025

Source Page: I. National Energy System Operator. Annual report and accounts 2025. 142p. II. Letter dated 03/10/2025 from Michael Shanks MP to Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the annual report for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: DESNZ_NESO_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_Deposit_Letter.pdf (PDF)

Found: Letter dated 03/10/2025 from Michael Shanks MP to Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the annual report

Monday 6th October 2025

Source Page: I. National Energy System Operator. Annual report and accounts 2025. 142p. II. Letter dated 03/10/2025 from Michael Shanks MP to Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the annual report for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: NESO_Annual_Report_2025.pdf (PDF)

Found: Letter dated 03/10/2025 from Michael Shanks MP to Deposited Papers Clerk regarding the annual report




Michael Shanks mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Tuesday 30th September 2025
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate
Source Page: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: June 2025
Document: Ministerial engagements, travel and gifts: June 2025 (Excel)

Found: -06-17 00:00:00Meeting/ with UK Minister Pre-meeting for Grangemouth Investment Meetings with Michael Shanks

Thursday 25th September 2025
Offshore Wind Directorate
Source Page: Meetings between Scottish Government and UK Government regarding GB Energy: FOI release
Document: FOI 202500470018 - Information released - Annex (PDF)

Found: Ministers Date: 20 March 2025 Time: 16:30 – 16:50 Venue: Microsoft Teams Attendees • Michael Shanks

Wednesday 24th September 2025
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Source Page: Correspondence between the Scottish Government and Shell: EIR release
Document: EIR 202500470130 - Information Released - Annex (PDF)

Found: I am copying this letter to Michael Shanks MP (Minister for Energy), James Murray MP (Exchequer Secretary

Tuesday 23rd September 2025
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Source Page: Energy Consents Unit (ECU) communications and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Strategy in Relation to Mey BESS and Northern Applications: EIR release
Document: Energy Consents Unit (ECU) communications and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Strategy in Relation to Mey BESS and Northern Applications: EIR release (webpage)

Found: Any correspondence with or referring to Jamie Stone MP, Michael Shanks MP, or their offices regarding

Tuesday 23rd September 2025
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Source Page: Energy Consents Unit (ECU) communications and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Strategy in Relation to Mey BESS and Northern Applications: EIR release
Document: FOI 202500467050 - Information released - Annex A (PDF)

Found: Proliferation Jamie Stone MP has recently confirmed that, in a direct meeting with UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks

Wednesday 17th September 2025
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Source Page: Grangemouth Future Industry Board Leadership Forum minutes: June 2025
Document: Grangemouth Future Industry Board Leadership Forum minutes: June 2025 (webpage)

Found: Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, Gillian Martin MSP, as co-chair alongside Minister for Energy, Michael Shanks

Tuesday 9th September 2025
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Source Page: Zonal pricing for electricity representations: EIR release
Document: EIR 202500475435 - Information released - Annex (PDF)

Found: Meeting between Cabinet Secretary NZE and Minister Shanks – REMA 23 April 2025 Attendees Michael Shanks



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Portfolio Question Time
49 speeches (23,065 words)
Thursday 25th September 2025 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) they do not comment on applications, officials have engaged with MSPs and community groups—and Michael Shanks - Link to Speech

Subordinate Legislation
301 speeches (165,258 words)
Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) They also make that point to Michael Shanks, the UK energy minister. - Link to Speech




Michael Shanks mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Committee Publications

PDF - responded

Inquiry: The Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill


Found: I met with Michael Shanks, the lead Minister for the Bill in the Department for Energy Security and