Tom Watson MP. Labour MP for West Bromwich East

Tom Watson MP. Labour MP for West Bromwich East

• Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (since 25 Jan 2008)
• Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
• Majority: 11,652 votes. — 93rd out of 637 MPs.

Last year Watson pocketed his £60,000 salary and his parliamentary expenses amounted to £150,000-plus – bringing his total package to £211,000 - making him the 73rd highest claiming MP out of 646 MPs. Quite an achievement for an MP not claiming for travel to and from Scotland. He of course employs his wife Siobhan at the public's expense, his brother, Dan, is constituency director to Euro MP Michael Cashman, Dan Watson's wife, Joanna, has no fewer than three jobs. Like her husband, she also works for Mr Cashman and for Wolverhampton Labour MP Pat McFadden, yet still finds time to be a Labour councillor in Sandwell. Amy Watson, cousin of Tom and Dan, works for Birmingham Northfield Labour MP Richard Burden. The West Midlands constituency Labour Party offices are packed with Watsons...

The total annual cost to the taxpayer of the Watson family's five not-so-little piggies is in excess of £300,000. Far more than the disgraced Derek Conway fiddled...

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Tom Watson voted on key issues since 2001: