Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.

Gill Furniss broke with Labour five times in a single day -- June 2025 -- to vote against key provisions of the assisted dying bill, including opposing its Third Reading. Her rebel votes place her notably to the right of her party on this issue: she scores 75% against assisted dying compared to Labour's 51%, a 24-point gap. She also chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt and Financial Inclusion, hosting stakeholder roundtables on debt policy as recently as March 2026, and previously drew coverage for criticising the MoD's treatment of Sheffield veterans and co-signing a parliamentary letter demanding accountability from Sky over job losses.

At 74% voting participation -- somewhat below the Commons average -- Furniss is a 98.4% party-line voter outside assisted dying. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, social care, local government, crime, and health, suggesting a bread-and-butter constituency focus. She scores low on pro-welfare expansion (33% versus Labour's 49%) and pro-criminal-justice reform (45% versus Labour's 64%), meaning she sits to the right of the Labour mainstream on both counts. She consistently backs progressive taxation and workers' rights.

Her committee portfolio -- Privileges, Standards, Procedure, and Panel of Chairs -- places her in Parliament's internal governance machinery rather than in policy-facing select committees, which may explain why her public profile is tied more to APPG work and constituency casework than to legislative scrutiny. Recent local news coverage, spanning 76 articles over 90 days, is broadly neutral and dominated by culture and sport stories rather than political controversy. Voting data covers her full term since her 2016 by-election win; speech-level data provides further context on her priorities.