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)5 APPG memberships (as of 28 Mar 2025)
Bus and Coach, Cyprus, Ethnicity Transplantation and Transfusion, Global Education, SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders21 Former APPG memberships
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, Sepsis, 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)
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Work and Pensions)
(9 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(72 debate contributions)
(51 debate contributions)
(9 debate contributions)
(8 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
(25,458 words contributed)
(1,890 words contributed)
(1,337 words contributed)
(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 50,641 signatures (0.23%)
of 227,381 signatures (0.22%)
of 161,204 signatures (0.20%)
of 227,381 signatures (0.22%)
of 237,537 signatures (0.19%)
of 247,920 signatures (0.16%)
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c. 847 added daily
153,948
(Estimated)
Don't change inheritance tax relief for working farms
Sign this petition Gov Responded - 5 Dec 2024 Debated on - 10 Feb 2025 View Mike Wood's petition debate contributionscloses in 1 week, 4 days
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.
c. 16,939 added daily
3,082,315
(Estimated)
Call a General Election
Sign this petition Gov Responded - 6 Dec 2024 Debated on - 6 Jan 2025 View Mike Wood's petition debate contributionscloses in 2 weeks, 4 days
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
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: 75
Independent: 3
Democratic Unionist Party: 2
Scottish National Party: 1
ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS
Tabled by: Bob Blackman (Conservative - Harrow East)That this House joins the Government to express serious concerns over the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) role in human rights violations in Iran and support for terrorism abroad, including destabilising activities in the region and reports of Iran's links and backing of military and proscribed groups; notes that the …
(Most recent: 9 Jan 2018)
Signatures by party:
Labour: 28
Conservative: 16
Scottish National Party: 7
Democratic Unionist Party: 6
Independent: 5
Liberal Democrat: 3
Plaid Cymru: 3
Non-affiliated: 1
Crossbench: 1
The Independent Group for Change: 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 16th May 2025
Order Paper number: 18
(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)7 Other Department Questions
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 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.
We are currently considering our position on caste discrimination. We will announce our plans in due course.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the Civil Service Commission and the Cabinet Office has been replaced by a consolidated Framework Agreement for the Independent Offices (covering the Civil Service Commission, Advisory Committee on Business Appointments and the Commissioner for Public Appointments). This was published on 18 February 2025.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The government publishes information on the operation of the National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) in the NSIA Annual Report. The most recent report, covering the 2023/24 reporting period, can be found on GOV.UK. The government received 753 mandatory notifications in that period.
Data on the number of mandatory notifications received between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025, broken down by month, will be published in the next Annual Report later this year.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Prime Minister announced on 25 February in the House that a single national security strategy would be published before the NATO summit in June 2025. A full terms of reference for the National Security Strategy will not be published, however the Strategy’s core aims are to:
Cohere national security related reviews into a single narrative.
Articulate the Government’s priorities in the national security space with the aim of making sure the country is safer, growing securely, and increasingly resilient against interconnected threats.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 17 December 2024, Official Report, PQ 19408.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Salary data for the Civil Service is published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics, an Accredited Official Statistics release, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/civil-service-statistics-2024. The most recent estimated salary cost figures as at 31st March 2024 were provided in response to Peter Bedford MP’s question on 16th October 2024. Civil Service Statistics 2025 is due to be published on 30 July 2025.
The Cabinet Office does not hold information on the wage bill for the wider public sector.
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 22nd April is attached.
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 22nd April is attached.
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 22nd April is attached.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office will not be publishing 2024 People Survey data for staff in 10 Downing Street in line with previous administrations.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Child Poverty Taskforce is a ministerial taskforce and members' interests are published regularly, in line with the Ministerial Code.
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
As the ruling has no direct impact on the Cabinet Office, no considerations have been made as yet. The Cabinet Office will consider the impact, on the department and its Arms Length Bodies, in due course.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Since 4 July 2024, the Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals has met on two occasions - 1st August and 19th November.
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
In the last 12 months, no Cabinet Office employees have been made permanent using Exception 10 (conversion to permanency of suitable candidates appointed under Exception 1 and 2) of the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office regularly holds discussions with trade unions including the Public and Commercial Services Union. These discussions relate to Civil Service workforce matters. Information about Cabinet Office ministers' meetings are released quarterly on .gov.uk as part of the department’s transparency publications and can be found here.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office has published guidance on ‘Freedom of Information and the Role of Special Advisers’ and on ‘Communication by Spreadsheet’ on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) is funded by its customers (government departments, the police, industry) through a burden-sharing model. Funding is agreed with customers on an annual basis, and in parallel with Cabinet Office business planning.
In line with the practice followed by successive administrations, the Government does not otherwise comment on security matters.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
In line with the Ministerial Code, Cabinet Ministers and, with the authorisation of the Prime Minister, Ministers who regularly attend Cabinet, may appoint special advisers. All special adviser appointments require approval of the Prime Minister.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Please see below Cabinet Office spend by social platform from 5 July 2024 to 8 April 2025:
Platform | Total Spend |
Meta | £533,432.96 |
£59,908.73 | |
Snapchat | £62,535.42 |
£840.75 |
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Parties with an interest in acquisitions being reviewed under the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act 2021 can submit representations via the Investment Security Unit in the Cabinet Office.
Given potential commercial and security sensitivities, the Government will not generally comment on review of specific acquisitions under the NSI Act, including what, if any, representations have been received.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
As has been the policy of successive governments, the government does not comment on matters relating to the intelligence agencies. The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament scrutinises the policies, expenditure, administration and operations of the intelligence agencies on behalf of Parliament.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Ministerial Code refers to a range of duties, obligations and guidance. The Code is the Prime Minister’s document and he is responsible for deciding which duties, obligations and guidance it refers to.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Salary data for the Civil Service is published annually as part of Civil Service Statistics, an Accredited Official Statistics release. The most recent salary cost figures as at 31st March 2024 were provided in response to Peter Bedford MP’s question on 16th October 2024.
The latest estimates of the total paybill with and without estimated employer National Insurance contributions were provided in response to Richard Holden MP’s question on 8th April 2025.
Both Employer Pension contributions and severance costs are not published by the Cabinet Office.
For 2024/25, departmental pay awards have been made within the controls of the 2024/25 Pay Remit Guidance. Information on total paybill costs may be published by individual departments, but there is no routine publication of the overall Civil Service paybill figure.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The UK civil service is made up of civil servants employed at over 100 Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Executive Agencies and Crown NDPBs. These are listed and published each quarter by Office for National Statistics at Table 9 of their quarterly public sector employment statistics available at the following web address:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. member to the answer to PQ 5306.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
In line with the approach under previous administrations, the Government does not publish specific responsibilities of individual special advisers in the Annual Report on Special Advisers.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Special adviser pay bands are published in the Annual Report on Special Advisers.
The most recent publication which includes the payband for the previous administration is availbale at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/674844e62ac8a6da3072393a/Annual_Report_on_Special_Advisers_2024.docx.pdf
The current special adviser paybands will be published as part of the 2025 annual report in the summer.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Between 13 November and 1 December 2024 the candidate pack for the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister was published and available to download via the Civil Service Jobs website.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Transparency data is published according to the standard and best practice guidance from the Government Digital Service and Central Digital and Data Office. Accessible open data formats are already used.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Information on how many departments hire official photographers as staff members is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office.
The Cabinet Office Communications team employs two Digital Media Officers who support government work in Departments and undertake photography as a small part of their duties.
There are also 2 full time, dedicated photographers in the No10 team. Although they are funded by the Cabinet Office, their work is managed by No10.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
There are no policies that exist in respect of asexual and/or aromantic staff specifically.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office published the Infected Blood Compensation Authority Framework Document on 10 March 2025. The document is publicly available on gov.uk, and can be found here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67cecb66df94702964916071/IBCA_Framework_Document.pdf.
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments is operationally independent of government and is responsible for publishing its advice on applications once the appointment or employment has been taken up or announced by the applicant.
In this case, the Committee has publicly stated that the timing of the publication of the advice on GOV.UK was impacted by staffing issues within the Secretariat.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Since 4 July 2024, the Cabinet Office has spent £17,600 on recruitment consultants for public appointments regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. This was paid to Hays Recruitment Agency to retain their services for the recruitment of a Judicial Member to the Senior Salaries Review Body.
The appointment of Hays Recruitment Agency was agreed by a Minister of the previous administration in March 2024, in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. The contract concluded in October 2024, following the appointment of a new Judicial Member.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The 2020 MoU between Cabinet Office and the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) is published on gov.uk (here). The Office for National Statistics is part of UKSA and does not have its own MoU. There is no separate Framework Agreement.
A revised MoU is due to be published in 2025.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office has not issued any guidance to departments about reducing spending on leadership training. Good leadership and management skills will be needed to deliver the Plan for Change and realise the government’s ambition to reshape the state. A cross-Civil Service leadership and management curriculum is being developed to support the standards expected for leadership and management. We are working to ensure this is delivered in the most impactful and cost effective way.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Headline civil service employment statistics on both an headcount and full-time equivalent basis (FTE) are published quarterly by Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their Public Sector Employment Statistics release and are available at the following web address:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/previousreleases
These statistics show that as at June 2024 civil service headcount stood at 546,000. The latest figures available are as at December 2024 where headcount was 548,000.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
I refer the honourable member to the answer provided on 31 March in response to Question 40911.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Information about sickness absence in the Cabinet Office is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-sickness-absence-2024/civil-service-sickness-absence-2024-report#by-organisation
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
The Cabinet Office does not hold any guidance in relation to those appointed to a pay review body as an ex-officio member. The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) is the only pay review body with ex-officio members. All members of pay review bodies are public appointments, who adhere to the governance code sent out by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
A repair project is underway to preserve the integrity of this Grade 1 listed building. Maintenance of the roof will be carried out alongside repair of exterior window frames. This followed a survey in December 2023 which indicated that work must be completed for safety reasons, with the work commencing in January 2024. The repairs are not structural and did not require planning permission. The cost of these works will be published in due course in Cabinet Office transparency returns.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
It is a longstanding policy not to comment on individuals. The Model Contract for Special Advisers is published online and details the circumstances in which severance is payable.
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)