Mike Wood
Conservative - Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
6,303 (14.0%) majority - 2024 General ElectionFirst elected: 7th May 2015
Opposition Whip (Commons)
(since July 2024)Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
(since November 2024)6 APPG Officer Positions (as of 7 May 2025)
Bus and Coach, Cyprus, Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion, Global Education, Sepsis, Speech and Language Difficulties6 APPG Memberships
Beer, Autism, Events, Parks and Green Spaces, Tidy Britain, Waterways21 Former APPG Officer Positions
Autism, Beer, Black Country, Black Country Economy, Chemical Industry, City Regions Transport, Commonwealth Games, Commonweatlth Games, Education Governance and Leadership, Football, Furniture Industry, Global Education for All, Homelessness, Learning Disability, Local Growth, Qatar, Road Passenger Transport, Road Passenger Transport - Recovery and Renewal, SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders, Thalassaemia, West MidlandsDivision Voting information
Mike Wood voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 23 Conservative Aye votes vs 35 Conservative No votes
Tally: Ayes - 415 Noes - 47
Mike Wood voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 24 Conservative Aye votes vs 31 Conservative No votes
Tally: Ayes - 366 Noes - 41
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.
Sparring Partners
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
(12 debate interactions)
(9 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(83 debate contributions)
(51 debate contributions)
(9 debate contributions)
(8 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(25,458 words contributed)
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(735 words contributed)
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire Petitions
e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
of 54,487 signatures (0.19%)
of 246,646 signatures (0.19%)
of 75,090 signatures (0.16%)
of 269,754 signatures (0.16%)
of 246,646 signatures (0.19%)
of 269,754 signatures (0.16%)
of 159,592 signatures (0.15%)
of 136,053 signatures (0.14%)
Petition Closed
Don't change inheritance tax relief for working farms
Gov Responded - 5 Dec 2024 Debated on - 10 Feb 2025 View Mike Wood's petition debate contributionsclosed 1 month ago
We think that changing inheritance tax relief for agricultural land will devastate farms nationwide, forcing families to sell land and assets just to stay on their property. We urge the government to keep the current exemptions for working farms.
Petition Closed
Call a General Election
Gov Responded - 6 Dec 2024 Debated on - 6 Jan 2025 View Mike Wood's petition debate contributionsclosed 3 weeks, 5 days ago
I would like there to be another General Election.
I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.
Latest EDMs signed by Mike Wood
Mauritius Treaty
Tabled by: Kemi Badenoch (Conservative - North West Essex)That the Agreement, done at London and Port Louis on 22 May 2025, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia, should not be ratified.
(Most recent: 11 Jun 2025)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 80
Reform UK: 4
Democratic Unionist Party: 3
Independent: 2
Traditional Unionist Voice: 1
Ulster Unionist Party: 1
Labour: 1
Social Security
Tabled by: Rishi Sunak (Conservative - Richmond and Northallerton)That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (S.I., 2024, No. 869), dated 22 August 2024, a copy of which was laid before this House on 22 August 2024, be annulled.
(Most recent: 10 Sep 2024)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 74
Independent: 4
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Scottish National Party: 1
Commons initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Mike Wood, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
Mike Wood has not been granted any Urgent Questions
Mike Wood has not been granted any Adjournment Debates
2 Bills introduced by Mike Wood
This Bill received Royal Assent on 23rd March 2016 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to require local authorities to maintain a register of heritage public houses in their area and to make provision in connection with the compilation and maintenance of such registers; to make provision relating to planning applications in respect of public houses on such a register; to place restrictions on the sale of heritage public houses; to make provision relating to the nomination of heritage public houses as assets of community value; to make provision about the listing of heritage public houses; and for connected purposes.
Monday 21st October 2024
Friday 20th June 2025
Order Paper number: 20
(Unlikely to be Debated - would require unanimous consent to progress)
Mike Wood has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 50 Written Questions
(View all written questions)11 Other Department Questions
Where a public body decides to undertake an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) to fulfill its Public Sector Equality Duty obligations, this would be funded as part of the organisation’s administrative budget. EIAs are well embedded in Government policy making and are not considered an additional cost but part of mainstream administrative functions.
In fact, EIAs are likely overall to reduce costs for public bodies, because the entailed analysis and discussion, by highlighting any equality issues greatly reduces the risk of subsequent litigation for alleged law breaches resulting from the particular policy.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)
There is no definition of gender, sexual orientation or gender identity formally recognised and used by the diversity networks in the Cabinet Office.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)
The Call for Evidence on Equality Law, published on 7 April 2025, seeks evidence on how we can better remove barriers to ambition and success for everyone, to improve the lives of working people and strengthen our country as part of our Plan for Change.
The purpose of the Call for Evidence is not to put forward detailed policy proposals and it would therefore not be possible or appropriate to produce an impact assessment at this stage. All evidence submitted to the Call for Evidence will be taken into account when developing policy. We will assess the impact of any proposed policy in the normal way, working in partnership with business, trade unions and civil society, to ensure any potential impacts are fully considered.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)
The Government is sharing with the EHRC all the submissions that met the criteria of the previous Government’s call for input on single-sex spaces guidance.
It is vitally important that service providers understand the single-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 and feel confident using them. The Government has committed to ensuring that there is guidance in place which gives service providers assurance about the rights afforded by the Act and how to lawfully apply its single-sex exceptions. We will set out our next steps on this soon.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)
The public consultation seeks views on the proposed approach to mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting in order to inform the drafting of the legislation.
We are separately engaging with a wide range of organisations, including employers, and gathering evidence in a more systematic manner on the likely costs and benefits of the proposed reporting requirements. This work will inform the impact assessment that will be published alongside the draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The Equality Act defines the protected characteristic of gender reassignment as a person that is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of gender reassignment.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office)
The scope of the Public Sector Equality Duty (the PSED) is set out in the Equality Act 2010 (the Act). It extends to all public authorities listed in Schedule 19 of the Act and all parties carrying out public functions. This came into force in April 2011 and includes private sector and voluntary organisations.
The PSED requires organisations in scope to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations between different people.
The government remains committed to upholding the PSED and ensuring that all parties exercising public functions comply with its provisions.
Whoever you are, wherever you come from, Britain should be a country where hard work means you can get on in life. Our work in the Opportunity Mission aims to break the link between background and success to ensure all children, including those from white working-class backgrounds, are able to achieve and thrive today so they can succeed and flourish tomorrow.
We are currently considering our position on caste discrimination. We will announce our plans in due course.
None of the listed flags have been flown from a Government Property Agency managed Government Building since 4 July 2024. We do not hold information relating to buildings not managed by the Government Property Agency.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Director of Policy, Delivery and Innovation is a special adviser. A list of special advisers is published as part of the Annual Report on Special Advisers by the Cabinet Office on gov.uk. The next report will be published in due course.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Government will soon publish the new Resilience Strategy which will set out our approach to building national resilience for all with particular focus on supporting our most vulnerable individuals and communities.
In April, the Cabinet Office published updated Vulnerable People Guidance to strengthen the capability of emergency responders in developing local action plans identifying and supporting vulnerable individuals and groups in an emergency. Additionally, the Cabinet Office has developed a Risk Vulnerability Tool which incorporates data such as ethnicity, age, gender, disability to improve understanding of the scale and location of disproportionately impacted populations to enable targeted support before and during crises.
The recently launched UK Resilience Academy will provide learning and leadership to government, local authorities, organisations, communities, and individuals. We will also use the National Exercising Programme to test how well our planning supports vulnerable people and communities in an emergency.
We will also continue to ensure that our current, and future, resilience guidance, including the Prepare website on GOV.UK reflects the diverse needs of individuals, households and communities.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
To establish the number of FOI responses in the last two years which have detailed Government Procurement Card spending below £500 would require a review of all responses issued by the Cabinet Office during that period and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
In support of the Government’s Transparency agenda, the Cabinet Office publishes Government Procurement Card spend data over £500 on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-procurement-card-data--2
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Plan for Change sets out clear and transparent milestones, and our plan to achieve them. We published graphs and links to the statistics on the outcomes for these milestones. The statistical annex published on gov.uk on the Plan for Change – Milestones for mission-led government provides further detail. These milestones will allow the public to track our progress and hold the government to account for their delivery.
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon Member to my previous answers [UIN42570 and UIN46864] given on the 7th April and 28th April 2025.
The Government has no current plans to publish this data as an Application Programming Interface.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Following updates to the Ministerial Code in November 2024, the Government moved publication of Ministers' gifts and hospitality from quarterly to monthly. This brought declarations broadly in line with those required by Members in Parliament.
As with previous administrations, departments publish transparency data on senior officials and special advisers on a quarterly basis.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer of 23 January 2025, Official Report, PQ 24138.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. Member to my answer of 04 June 2025, Official Report, PQ 54015.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. Member to my answer of 21 May 2025, Official Report, PQ 47333.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. Member to the transcript of the Prime Minister's speech at the press conference on 12 May 2025, available on gov.uk.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
It is important that ethnicity pay gap reporting by employers is accurate and statistically valid.
The public consultation on mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting seeks views on the proposed approach, including questions about data collection, reporting and minimum sample size. The proposed minimum of 10 employees is intended to protect the privacy of employees and to produce statistically robust data.
We are also engaging with a wide range of organisations and specialists, including employers who are already reporting, to understand the challenges of data collection.
The findings from the consultation will inform the development of measures in the draft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
There is no Deputy Director for Meaningful Work. Meaningful work refers to work that an employee must be provided with and undertake during the redeployment process. The nature of the work should be appropriate for their grade, skills and competencies and may take place within or outside of their existing business area.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The current text was agreed by the previous administration and has not changed under the current government.
The text included in Civil Service Job adverts is:
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Inclusive Leadership Programme is delivered by a third party supplier, who owns the intellectual property. The learning objectives for this course can be found on the prospectus online:
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Equality Analysis: Making Scrutiny Relevant to Promoting Equality is delivered by a third party supplier, who owns the intellectual property. An outline for this course can be found on the prospectus online:
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I have no plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of the changes referred to.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This is already in place. Under the current terms of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS), if an individual leaves an organisation with a compensation payment and then returns to any other organisation which uses the CSCS within six months, they are required to pay back a proportion of their compensation.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The exemption requirement from the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Guidance does not apply to arm’s-length bodies. As stated in paragraph four of the guidance, for arm’s-length bodies, the Principal Accounting Officer, in consultation with the Board, must authorise the expenditure.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 30th May is attached.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
There are no plans to publish this information in the Library. This information contains personal data and publishing it in the Library would be considered a breach of data protection legislation. The report that this information was used to inform is available on the Civil Service Commission’s website.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
As set out in the relevant policy, departments are required to ensure that external venues for away days are only used when space in government buildings is unavailable.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Civil Service Jobs website is fully accessible to the public. The website is used to advertise roles available to applicants who are external to the Civil Service, though departments may advertise on other websites. The website may also be used to advertise roles for inter- and intra-departmental moves, which enables an appropriate method of talent management and bears in mind the downward pressure on the cost of the Civil Service.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
There are 39 staff, at multiple grades, who support the 8 Cabinet Office ministers in private office roles.
Minister | Number of staff in Private Office |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | 8 |
Minister for the Cabinet Office | 6 |
Minister Oppong-Asare | 4 |
Minister Reeves | 4 |
Minister Gould | 6 |
Minister Alexander | 1 (Cabinet Office portfolio only) |
Leader of the House of Lords | 3 |
Leader of the House of Commons | 7 |
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office has updated the guidance on the use of external venues for events and away days.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This information is not published by the Cabinet Office on behalf of the Government as departments are responsible for the management of exit schemes. Costs are published in each department's annual report and accounts.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Recruitment is due to conclude in the coming months for Cabinet Office Non-Executive Board Members. At present John Fallon, Maura Sullivan, and Lisa Tremble have been appointed as Non-Executive Board Members.
Full membership of the Cabinet Office Board will be decided once all of the Non-Executive Board Members have been appointed. The Board will comprise ministers, officials, and Non-Executive Board Members.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office requires all Crown Representatives to declare any Conflict of Interest both on appointment and at regular intervals thereafter. None of our current Crown Representatives have declared any party political activity or interests.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The policy setting out the requirement to publish Government Procurement Card transactions over £500 remains in place. This is available to all government departments on gov.uk at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5e8b402686650c18ce2cb541/Procurement_Cards_-_Pan_Government_Policy_V4_06042020.pdf.
There is nothing to prevent government departments from publishing transactions below £500. Where they do so, the Cabinet Office does not hold information relating to their reasons for doing so.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The most recent Public Appointments Order in Council, which sets out all regulated public appointments, was made at Privy Council on 15 November 2023. The Government Lead Non-Executive was not included at that time or any time prior. Consideration of whether a role should be regulated, including whether it should be a significant appointment or subject to pre-appointment scrutiny, should happen at the point the role is created (in this case 2010), and mechanisms exist to make such changes outside of the periodic process for updating the Order in Council and the published lists.
The most recent appointment of the Government Lead Non-Executive in January 2025 was made via an open and transparent recruitment process. This was the first time this appointment has been done in this way. All prior appointments were made directly by the Prime Minister of the day without competition.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The membership of the Cabinet Office Board will be established once the Non-Executive Board Member campaign has concluded.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Lead Non-Executive Board Member declared all interests in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments during the appointments process. Any relevant declarations made during this process can be found on the public appointments website.
The individual also declared interests as a Board Member. Any relevant declarations made in line with this guidance can be found on the Cabinet Office’s website.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Honoural Member to the answer he was given to PQ UIN 6095 on 13th November 2024.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Rt Hon gentleman to the answer to PQ_29020.
Aggregate data is published on details of appointments by exception below SCS2 grade. There has been no change to these arrangements since the new government took office
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The entries marked “nothing supplied by BU” indicate that the Business Unit in which the individual works had not yet provided a role description for the position in the Cabinet Office’s position management system.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The February 2025 dataset is based on data as at 31 December 2024. At this point EU Relations Secretariat staff had commenced work in the Cabinet Office but had not completed their payroll transfer from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Hence they were represented in our structure but did not have pay information attached. Their salary data was included in the April publication and will be included in future publications.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I can advise him that there have been no changes to the guidance or policies that were in place under the previous government. Honours committee members have no formal role in identifying people to receive honours. Members play a role in supporting Government departments to build pipelines of possible future nominees in their area of expertise.
Further information on probity checks is available on gov.uk.
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
I can advise him that there have been no changes to the guidance or policies that were in place under the previous government. Honours committee members have no formal role in identifying people to receive honours. Members play a role in supporting Government departments to build pipelines of possible future nominees in their area of expertise.
Further information on probity checks is available on gov.uk.
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office