Privacy policy
Privacy Notice
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As your MP, and elected representative, my office and I use your personal data for many reasons. We are known as a ‘data controller’ for the use of your personal data listed in this notice. My use is separate to the Labour Party uses.
To understand how the Labour Party uses your personal data, you can see this on their website privacy pages.
Why do I use your personal data?
My main uses of your personal data are for what’s known as, democratic engagement purposes. This means I use your personal data to help me make choices about the best way to run the constituency and the country, and how best to represent your views in parliament.
It means I use your personal data to communicate with you, to gather your opinions through interactions with you, like meetings, phone/video calls and surveys, and to conduct casework or get you involved in casework. Democratic engagement purposes allow the use of personal data to support my work as an elected representative.
In the discharge of my duties as an MP, for example, where you have engaged in any casework with me (part of my democratic engagement activities), once that work is underway, I will keep you informed of my local work and achievements within a newsletter. These are service messages and not attempting to market, promote or advertise anything. Where you have interacted with me outside of this, I’ll ask for your consent to keep you informed. You can opt-out at any time.
Democratic engagement also means going campaigning on local, national and global issues, registering you as a supporter, fundraising and processing donations, taking photos and videos of you for social media and relevant websites, and asking you to campaign for the Labour Party alongside each other.
All MPs use personal data to build networks and relationships with constituents, community groups, local businesses, business groups, schools, charities, hospitals, religious establishments and local and central government sources. Where I think you may be influential (possibly known as an ‘influencer’) in supporting my work, civic duties and in my campaigning activities I will ask if you would like to be part of my influential supporter network. You can opt-out at any time.
Sometimes we need to connect you with people to help with your casework or hopefully create a beneficial connection for you by giving them your contact details.
It may also include ‘Special Category’ data which is usually considered more private and sensitive. Special Category data relates to a person’s racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; genetic data; biometric data (where used for identification purposes); health; sex life; sexual orientation.
MPs often like to say thank you, wish you happy birthday, send you letters or emails to tell you what I’ve been doing and to invite you to attend an event we think may be of interest to you. If you have made a donation to my or donated to my Constituency Labour Party I will follow up to thank you and see if you have interest in getting more involved (if you’re not already). It is within our legitimate interest to do this, and you can ask us to stop using your personal data in this way if you wish.
I will use your personal data if you’ve applied for a job (paid or voluntary) to work with me, or to work with me on a local, national or global initiative I’m involved in. I use personal data when managing complaints, political concerns and any legal or police matters as they may arise from time to time and I’m obliged to share your personal data with the nation Labour Party safeguarding team if I feel there is a safeguarding issue that warrants it or I need advice about a circumstance.
Engaging with you comes in many forms including knocking on your door, social media interactions, and conversations we have. Each interaction generates information and statistics which we analyse through the use of secure research partners and data intermediary service providers providing functional anonymity within analysis techniques.
As you might expect, MPs conduct a lot of research to understand your opinions about global, national, local and personal issues you may have which helps us inform views, formulate local and national policies, take action to improve things, make political choices, and understand how best to engage with you in the future.
Our research work spans polling, surveys, interviews, social media listening, aggregated statistics we generate and from publicly available sources, and from secure government locations such as the Office for National Statistics and other highly secure regulated databases.
For further information on how political parties may use your personal data from the Electoral Register as specified by the UK regulatory body for data protection, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), you can access this information by clicking here. 
How is personal data collected?
I mainly collect your personal data directly from you when you interact with me. You may have submitted some casework, spoken to me at an event or while I was campaigning, signed up to receive a newsletter, donated to my campaign or maybe filled in a survey or a poll I’m running. You may have made contact via email or a ‘Contact Me’ webform on my website or via a social media post.
Where you may be influential in an area or sector which I’m performing casework or am looking for advice and support I will reach out to you using publicly available contact details to ask if you’re interested in engaging with me.
Sometimes people will pass me your contact details because they feel I could help with something you’re doing. I’ll always make sure you were happy (get your consent) for me to contact you if someone else has given me your contact details.
I have a legal entitlement to the full electoral register for my constituency, which includes the full name and address of every registered elector, and I may write to you in connection with my activities as an MP. There is a useful Frequently Asked Questions page about this on the Labour Party Website (FAQ).
Where a registered elector within my constituency (possibly you) has provided an opinion or notified any part of the Labour Party of an issue they are alerting us to, I’m able to collect and collate this information from the other parts of the Labour Party and their databases.
This provides a joined-up approach to gathering views and understanding the required democratic activities within my constituency. Sometimes this creates what is known as derived data, i.e. a demographic associated with you from the analysis of your personal data from multiple Labour Party controlled sources.
In the technical systems such as websites and my social media platforms there is an automatic collection of personal and non-personal data. This is the data automatically sent by your devices while accessing digital locations I control. All statistics are shared centrally to support my work, increase voter turnout and contribute to national opinions which can inform government policy.
Sometimes the national Labour Party, other MPs, Local Government, central government departments and quite often the Constituency Labour Party will pass me your personal data because there is a requirement to interact with you on an important issue or you’ve asked for such contact.
If you’re a Labour Party Member within my constituency I can access your personal data within the national Labour Party membership databases. The information to know how I use your personal data when you’re a Labour Party member is found on the Labour Member’s Privacy Notice.
I do not knowingly collect data relating to children unless it may be within casework or a safeguarding issue I’ve been made aware of, but this website is not intended for children or for the collection of their data.
Who is your personal data shared with?
I maintain digital systems for data storage and email and have contracts in place with these digital systems service providers. I use polling, survey and mass email service providers which are a mix of services from the national Labour Party and commercially available service providers in accordance with a contract I have with them.
I will only share as much personal data as is necessary for the purpose it was collected, and I never sell your personal data to any organisations, and it is never used for commercial gain.
Your personal data may be processed via my parliamentary email address which means the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) are providing data storage and email facility for me and my work. PDS act as a technology service provider to me and are not allowed to use any personal data you share with me unless there is a legal or safeguarding reason for them to do so.
If it is relevant to casework, we will share your personal with people that can help with the casework. Also, if we think you can help on another person’s casework as a good or influential contact, we will seek your permission and share your personal data (contact details) with them. Casework is quite diverse and may also mean your personal data is shared by me with local and national government departments.
If initiated by you or us and where relevant and agreed by you, we will share your personal data with charities, charitable causes or individual families which have the possibility of being positively impacted from your contact and engagement with them.
Whilst campaigning, or when you contact me, when you have told me of a personal, local, national or global issue which is of concern to you I will note your concern into my copy of the Labour Party constituency electoral database. Your concern is captured alongside your electoral details which is intrinsically integrated with the national Labour Party electoral register data base.
I work with secure research organisations that have passed national Labour Party security due diligence risk assessments to help me analyse information I obtain during all the work that I do as an elected representative. I only share information and possibly personal data via secure digital environments that have been set up by my research partner and have but there is no focus on personal data which will be either anonymised, pseudonymised or reduced to the minimum requirement for the research projects I engage with. Each research project has a data protection risk assessment conducted before information of any type is shared – it may also mean I decide not to move forward with the research.
Your personal data is never shared with any Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems or large data models and all uses of AI algorithms are used only with anonymous data, they are not trained or iterated using personal data, and where there is a more sophisticated AI use case, we ensure that functional anonymisation is observed so the data meets the threshold of being for altruistic purposes only.
Data altruism within data use is ‘data that is made available without reward for purely non-commercial usage that benefits communities or society at large’.
At times this will mean engaging with a secure data intermediation service provider (DISP) with regulatory oversight. A DISP acts in a similar way to any normal email service provider, it is the provision of a secure platform (within a server) that only I and the national Labour Party have access to, to perform research and analysis.
A DISP allows me to have data matched throughout the Labour Party to help formulate policies and viewpoints to help unify the country from the information you have provided us and to tell you how your thoughts have helped improve people’s lives in the UK. There is a risk assessment performed before every use of data in any DISP.
If applicable at any point, we will share your personal data with the Police, Law Enforcement Agencies, Healthcare Services including the NHS, Adult Services, Children Services, Local Authority Designated Officers (LADO), charities, charitable organisations or agencies or any other safeguarding related institutions or organisation(s), solicitors, legal counsel and/or claimants. 
There may be scenarios where we are subject to a legal obligation to disclose or share your personal data, such as with law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies or public authorities to prevent or detect crime or prove we have adhered to their request. We will only ever disclose your personal data to these third parties to the extent we are required to do so by law. 
Data sharing with a third-party organisation that is not a supplier of a product or service to Labour does not occur unless there is a legal obligation or sound lawful purpose for such sharing.  For any such sharing we put a Data Sharing Agreement in place between myself, the Labour Party and the third-party (this includes research organisations and DISPs) containing specific information in accordance with the Information Commissioner’s Office ‘Data sharing code of practice’.  
What does the law say about MP’s uses of your personal data?
The laws that govern my use of your personal data are the Representation of the People Act 2001, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
The Representation of the People Act 2001 allows for a legal basis for my access to the electoral register for campaign purposes and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 allows for my use of your personal data for campaigning in elections and referendum, election spending, and donations.
The Data Protection Act 2018 defines the term ‘democratic engagement’ and allows for personal data to be used for democratic engagement purposes as a ‘task in the public interest’ under Article 6.1(e) of the UK GDPR. The use of your special category personal data, including your political opinion, within democratic engagement purposes is governed under ‘substantial public interest’ under Article 9.2(g) of the UK GDPR.
Democratic engagement covers the discharge of my duties as an MP and your representative which means the lawful basis is a task in the public interest as mentioned above.
For most of the uses of your personal data, we are not required to get your consent from you. For example, when we send you service messages, this is known as use of your personal data for purposes of ‘legitimate interest’ under UK GDPR Article 6.1(f). Using personal data for recruitment purposes is also under ‘legitimate interest’ and when you are employed or volunteer to work with me I will provide you with a separate privacy notice for this new use of your personal data.
Research I’m conducting with a research organisation or with the national Labour Party or my Constituency Labour Party is conducted for purposes of legitimate interest and for democratic engagement uses and any special categories of personal data use under ‘substantial public interest’. Direct interactions with people for research purposes have an ethical requirement of gaining permission for their participation as well which falls under uses for legitimate interest purposes as well.
There may be times when I feel I need to protect an individual from neglect, or physical or emotional harm and share their personal data which I do as necessary to protect the vital interests of individuals under Article 6.1(d) of the UK GDPR, special category data use is for ‘substantial public interest’ here as well.
To use your data for any rights requests you may make or to deal with legal claims or litigation the UK GDPR Article 6.1(c) for compliance with legal obligations is used, and again special category data use is for ‘substantial public interest’ or Article 9.2(f) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
When you make yourself known to me as a supporter of mine, I will capture your consent for sending you campaign marketing materials. This could be captured on one of my digital systems or within an email you send to me. You can opt-out at any time. The best way to remove your consent will be to use the unsubscribe button on an email you have received from me.
Also, it is worth knowing that when you opt-out of receiving my marketing materials, it won’t automatically mean you are opted-out of the national Labour Party marketing databases. These databases are separate systems which I do not have access to and unfortunately don’t have the resources to pass this on to them for you.
How long do we keep your personal data?
Unless you specifically tell me otherwise, I will retain your personal data in all locations where it is currently held until such a time it is no longer tenable to keep your personal data for any reason. This is usually until I am no longer an MP.
For casework, personal data related to casework will only be kept for as long as necessary to resolve your case and then minimised to (e.g., a record of contact) for future reference if you contact me again.
For campaigning and communications, if you provided consent to receive communications from me, I will retain your data if I remain your MP or until you request that I stop contacting you. If you unsubscribe, your information will be removed from my contact lists.
Casework handover to new MPs that may take over from me is not a standard practice. It is usual for this data to be deleted. My hope is that casework is not lost (i.e. all casework related personal data is not deleted) if there is a change of MP so you don’t have to start again with a new local MP. I feel this is within your legitimate interest for this sharing of your personal data when I stop being your MP.
Where you do submit a right to deletion request, I will delete you from all locations I hold your personal data although will keep it if:
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It has been, or is being used within a complaints, disputes or grievance process by Labour and we may need to evidence this in the future to defend legal claims;
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I need to keep it to comply with a legal obligation;
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Erasing your data would prejudice scientific or historical research;
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There is information associated with your data which is of a safeguarding concern to yourself or others; and
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Erasing will mean I lose our logs of when you made any data protection rights requests.
Where the sharing of personal data is within the context of a product or service being supplied under contract to me, a Data Processing Agreement, is in place that stipulates when they must delete the data on our behalf.
How do we keep your personal data secure?
I align with the national Labour Party processes for keeping your personal data secure which can be found on their website.
I have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, I limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a requirement for access. They will only process your personal data on my instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. I will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where I am legally required to do so.
This website contains links to other websites. I am not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices of these websites.
For any research conducted I make sure a data protection impact assessment is conducted with an anonymisation impact assessment built in if personal data is to be anonymised to enable the use of the data for research purposes.
Where any AI system is used, I ensure an AI impact assessment is conducted with a focus on fundamental rights impacts. I align with the tenets of not allowing any use of AI that could cause physical harm, could impact any consequential services or cause you emotional distress. Obfuscation and techniques of functional anonymisation and where possible, privacy enhancing technologies will be used at all times.
Any access to any personal data for research purposes where anonymisation is not possible or would inversely impact the altruistic intention of use of the data I only work with organisations that can enable access to data through the methodology known as the ‘5 Safes’ used by the NHS and the Office for National Statistics. This will usually be enabled via a data intermediation service provider (DISP) for secure and curated access for researchers to do their research and feedback the results to me.
I also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature or digital platform I use in my work. However, if I combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, I treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
Your Rights
You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
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Where I am relying on your consent to use your personal data, you can withdraw that consent at any time – “right to object” 
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You can request access to the personal data I hold about you at any time – “right of access” 
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You can ask me to update your personal data if it changes. In certain circumstances, you can request I erase the personal data we hold, or ask me to stop or restrict its use if you have an objection – “right to rectification” 
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You can request deletion of the personal data I hold about you at any time – “right to erasure” 
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You can request that I restrict processing of the personal data I hold about you at any time – “right to restrict processing” 
Should you wish to exercise these rights, please contact me via my email on this website. Whenever you submit a rights request to me, I recommend you also submit the same to the national Labour Party.
I do not have access to all the systems available to the national Labour Party and would not want to feel you were disappointed if I’m unable to complete your request because of this.
To understand your data privacy rights in more depth and to submit a rights request to the national Labour Party please see their ‘YOUR RIGHTS’ page on their website.
How can you complain about our use your personal data?
If you want to raise a concern about the way I've handled your personal data, you should contact the Labour Data Protection Team, stating my name and emailing dataprotection@labour.org.uk outlining your concern.
Where you feel the level of concern is higher and you would like to make a complaint to the UK data protection regulator the Information Commission, I ask that you give me the opportunity to address your complaint before this escalation, although I respect that you may still like to make your complaint to the Commission before coming to me and you do have a right to do so.
You can submit your complaint to the Commission by either:
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Clicking here to access to the Commission’s complaints tool; or
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By giving them a call on the Commission’s helpline: 0303 123 1113.
Further information about your rights is on the Commission’s website which can be accessed by clicking here.
How can you contact us about this privacy notice?
If you have any questions about the information in this privacy notice, then you can contact me using my email on this website or by contacting the Labour Party Data Protection Team, make sure you state my name in an email to dataprotection@labour.org.uk or by post within a letter to:
Labour Statutory Data Protection Officer, The Labour Party, Southworks, 20 Rushworth Street, United Kingdom, SE1 0SS
When was this privacy notice last updated?
I may update this notice from time to time. I will notify you of the changes where required by applicable law to do so. Last modified: June 2025.