Affiliation
House: Commons
Constituency: Swansea West
Status: Current member
TB
Torsten Bell
LabBackbencher (MP)
CommonsSwansea West
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-03-19
Activity total: 5
Contributions: 5
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
No current post data is attached to this profile.
Recent Votes
Recent recorded divisions
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6
Commons - 2026-03-25T16:00:00+00:00
AyePassed
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:48:00+00:00
AyePassed
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:37:00+00:00
AyePassed
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:26:00+00:00
AyePassed
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:15:00+00:00
AyePassed
Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1
Commons - 2026-03-25T15:01:00+00:00
AyePassed
Opposition Day Motion: Defence
Commons - 2026-03-24T19:01:00+00:00
No vote recordedDefeated
Opposition Day Motion: Oil and Gas
Commons - 2026-03-24T16:00:00+00:00
No vote recordedDefeated
Recent Participation
Recent speeches in the feed
Pre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary Increases
2026-03-19 · 17:29My hon. Friend has been a powerful campaigner on this issue. I recognise her point about situations where there was a habit of paying discretionary increases in the past. On the q…
Pre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary Increases
2026-03-19 · 17:27I hear the right hon. Member’s point. I am not going to comment on individual legal cases, obviously, but the basis of the distinction at 1997 reflects the decisions taken in 1995…
Pre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary Increases
2026-03-19 · 17:20I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Luke Akehurst) has secured the debate on this important matter and thank him for the thoughtful way in which he descr…
Pre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary Increases
2026-03-19I will come in a second to the point that the right hon. Gentleman is making, which is about where power lies in the system.
Pre-1997 Pensions: Discretionary Increases
2026-03-19I think there is a slightly harder case, which is examples where schemes had an established practice of paying discretionary increases—my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham m…