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Helen Goodman

Labour Bishop Auckland F
Helen Goodman is no longer a Member, but was most recently the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland, and left the Commons on 6 November 2019.

Pay & earnings · 2026

MP base salary £0 / £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date · annual rate £93,904
Declared outside earnings £0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared) £0
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.

Constituencies represented

2010-05-062019-11-06
Bishop Auckland
2005-05-052010-05-06
Bishop Auckland

Party history

2005-05-052019-11-06
Labour

Government posts

2009-06-092010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
2008-10-052009-06-09
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)
2007-07-022008-10-05
Deputy Leader of the House of Commons

Opposition posts

2017-07-062019-11-06
Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
2014-12-032015-09-18
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
2011-10-072014-12-03
Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
2010-10-082011-10-07
Shadow Minister (Justice)
2010-05-122010-10-08
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Committee memberships

2005-07-122007-06-04
Public Accounts Committee
2007-03-182007-08-03
Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)
2017-10-312019-11-06
Ecclesiastical Committee
2015-10-282017-05-03
Ecclesiastical Committee
2010-10-262015-03-30
Ecclesiastical Committee
2017-09-112019-11-06
Procedure Committee
2016-02-012017-05-03
Procedure Committee
2011-03-012014-01-27
Procedure Committee
2015-07-082017-05-03
Treasury Committee
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s)

No APPG officerships found for this MP. (Officer matching is by name — if the parliamentary register lists them under a slightly different form, the join may miss; check /appgs directly.)

Commons votes · 2026

No Commons votes recorded for 2026.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are MPs who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Freehold Properties (Management Charges and Shared Facilities) Bill Sponsored 2nd reading 2018-11-14
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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