Updated Parliament Evidence

Party Representation in the House of Commons +in relation to vote share

• Labour: 402 (was 411) → 33% of vote

• Conservative: 116 (Was 121) → 23% of vote

• Lib Dems: 72 → 12% of vote

• Reform: 8 (was 5)

• Greens 5(was 4)

• Independent 8 (was 4)

Demographic rep in HOC in contrast to Society

• Women: 41% in HOC, 50% in society

• Ethnic Minorities: 14% in HOC, 16-18% in society

• LGBT MPs 64mps (9%), 3% in society

• 24% Privately educated (14% in Labour, 46% Conservative), 7% on society

MP representing using the delegate Model

Zarah Sultana, represented constituents interests on 2 child benefit cap over party whip

MP following the Trustee Model

Dominic Grieve, was a prominent remain supporter in a leave leaning constituency, he prioritised his own interests/ beliefs and ended up being de selected at the next election

Consituency representation being undermined by the FPTP system

Jess Phillips, elected with only 31% of the vote in 2024

Example of MPs representing causes

All party parliamentary groups e.g. on Motor Neurone disease, chaired by Ian Byrne

Between when did how many PMBs achieve royal assent?

Between 2019-2024, 31 Private members bills achieved royal assent

Example of a PMB being adopted by a party

Sarah Champion’s private members bill on child exploitation was adopted by the conservatives

Successful use of PMQs for policy

In 2017, Corbyn successfully used PMQs to overturn a premium rate number used for universal credits

Recent Scrutiny in PMQs

Badenoch pressuring Starmer on Mandelssohn

recent PMQs bullying example

2024, Starmer joked that Farage was making a rare appearance in Britain and that he expected to see him in America’s immigration ststistics

Example of the use of an opposition day

2026, Badenoch used an opposition day to debate if Starmer should be received to the privileges committee over Mendelssohn