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Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 181 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 328 Noes - 250
Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 251
Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 181 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 255
Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 321 Noes - 252
Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 182 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 324 Noes - 253
Division Vote (Commons)
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 255
MP Financial Interest
Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Original Source (18th March 2024)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited
Address of donor: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality for the BRIT Awards 2024, total value £3,000
Date received: 2 March 2024
Date accepted: 2 March 2024
Donor status: company, registration 01132389

Written Question
Chambers of Commerce: Finance
Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department allocated to the (a) Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce, (b) British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, (c) British Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, (d) UK-India Business Council, (e) Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and (f) British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)

The Department for Business and Trade and the former Department for International Trade have not provided any funding to the Chambers of Commerce requested except for the UK-India Business Council. The funding provided to it is as follows:

Year

Spend

2013 (October-March inclusive)

£441,344.54

2014

£3,428,243.20

2015

£2,269,682.03

2016

£1,955,098.94

2017

£1,499,191.33

2018

£1,311,455.20

2019

£1,059,669.00

2020

£828,695.00

2021

£1,115,025.00

2022

£270,835.00

Division Vote (Commons)
13 Mar 2024 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 141 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 291 Noes - 147
Division Vote (Commons)
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Gareth Thomas (LAB) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 292