Cardiff East.

A Cabinet minister first and a backbencher second, Jo Stevens has spent recent months as Secretary of State for Wales using her platform to champion the government's steel strategy -- arguing publicly that state support for Welsh steelmaking is not ideologically driven but economically necessary. Her highest-profile coverage in the past 90 days clusters around economy and jobs, where she has been directly quoted defending industrial policy and securing funding for communities affected by steel industry change, including £80m for steel communities and £15m for the Port Talbot town centre.

Her parliamentary record reflects her ministerial position. At 64% voting participation -- below the Commons average -- her attendance pattern is consistent with the demands of a full Cabinet role rather than disengagement. She has no rebel votes, voting 100% with the Labour majority. Her stance profile shows strong alignment on workers' rights and progressive taxation, and near-zero alignment on pro-business, pro-parliamentary-scrutiny, and pro-lords-scrutiny metrics, the last two reflecting her consistent support for government positions against Lords amendments and opposition procedural motions. She speaks most on economy and jobs, local government, and energy -- topics that map directly onto her ministerial brief.

Her deviations from Labour's party average are worth noting: she sits 43 percentage points below colleagues on pension protection votes, and below the party average on disability benefits and end-of-life autonomy, though small sample sizes limit firm conclusions. Her news coverage beyond steel is largely neutral in sentiment, with transport and community issues generating little positive signal. No committee memberships are recorded, as would be expected for a serving Cabinet minister.