Liz Kendall.

As Secretary of State for Work and Pensions — and, since September 2025, Technology Secretary — Liz Kendall is a full cabinet minister, which shapes almost everything about her parliamentary record. Her 49% voting participation is low by backbench standards but typical for senior ministers, who spend far more time running departments than attending Commons divisions. She has no rebel votes: she voted 100% with Labour on every recorded division, including backing the government's amended position on defence spending, the steel nationalisation bill, and accelerated cuts to direct farm subsidies.

Her 741 parliamentary contributions span economy and jobs, social care, the labour market, and technology — the policy territories her cabinet roles cover. Her stance data shows strong alignment with fiscal responsibility and workers' rights, and she deviates from her Labour colleagues in two notable directions: she voted significantly more favourably than the party average on armed forces welfare (+48 percentage points) and backed assisted dying access at 100%, well above the party's 58% average. She sits on no select committees, which is standard for cabinet ministers.

The most significant recent news coverage concerns her role in reversing the government's controversial AI copyright position in March 2026, which she handled jointly with Culture Secretary Nandy after the original policy was rejected by the creative industries. She was first appointed to cabinet as Work and Pensions Secretary in July 2024, then reshuffled to the Technology brief in September 2025. Local coverage over the past 90 days is sparse, averaging near-neutral sentiment across economy, crime, and culture stories. Limited recent constituency-level data makes it difficult to assess her local casework profile independently of her national role.