UK Parliament · member 5069
Torsten Bell MP
- Party
- Labour — Labour Party
- Constituency
- Swansea West
- Member for this seat since
- 4 July 2024
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Torsten Bell, and how each was tied to them
Declared interests
MPs must register financial interests within 28 days. This is the register’s own text, republished verbatim from the official Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Registering an interest is a requirement met, not a finding against anyone.
Employment and earnings
- Paperback publication - Robert Caskie (registered 1 April 2025)
Visits outside the UK
- International visit to France between 15 January 2026 and 17 January 2026 (registered 14 February 2026)
Source: UK Parliament Register of Members’ Financial Interests API (Open Parliament Licence). Amounts are shown only where the register itself records one as a figure; nothing is parsed out of the free text.
Voting record
In the 414 recorded divisions where Torsten Bell and at least one other Labour member were recorded voting, Torsten Bell voted the same way as most voting Labour members 414 times (100.0%).
This compares Torsten Bell with other members of their own party who were recorded voting in the same division. It is not a measure of loyalty to a whip: Civometry holds no whipping records, so it cannot say which votes were whipped, and voting differently from party colleagues is not described here as a rebellion. Members not recorded in a division are excluded from the comparison rather than counted, because an absence from a division list is not a vote and does not mean the member was absent from the House.
Donations reported to the Electoral Commission
The register holds no donations reported against this name. Donations are matched on the regulated entity name exactly as the Electoral Commission publishes it; a member who reports under a different form of their name will not match here, and no similar name is substituted.
Source: Electoral Commission register of donations. Reporting thresholds apply, so this is not every sum given. A donation is a lawful, reported transaction; its presence here says nothing about why it was made and nothing about anything that followed it.
Staffing and business costs paid by IPSA
2025-26: £18,955 across 49 claim lines; 2024-25: £152,220 across 86 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 43 | £12,417 |
| 2025-26 | Accommodation | 6 | £6,538 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 2 | £126,867 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 17 | £11,140 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 60 | £6,332 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 2 | £5,014 |
| 2024-25 | Staff Travel | 3 | £2,493 |
| 2024-25 | Dependant Travel | 2 | £375 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2025 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment — WWW.ARGOS.CO.UK | £99 | Paid |
| 2 August 2024 | Office Costs · Software & applications | ELECTED TECHNOLOGIES [200011799-83] | £955 | Paid |
| 31 March 2025 | Staff Travel · Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25 | £950 | Paid |
| 23 September 2025 | Office Costs · Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £96 | Paid |
| 21 July 2025 | Office Costs · Utilities | Electricity — Constituency Office Electricity | £96 | Paid |
| 10 June 2025 | Office Costs · Advertising and contact cards | LOW COST PRINTING | £91 | Paid |
| 26 February 2025 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Office furniture — SP DOMLI LIMITED | £903 | Paid |
| 20 March 2025 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | £90 | Paid |
| 16 January 2025 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Banner February 2025 | £10 | Paid |
| 16 January 2025 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | Banner February 2025 | £10 | Paid |
| 31 March 2025 | Staff Travel · Hotel - UK Not London | Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-25 | £864 | Paid |
| 22 November 2024 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | SP SHOP.PARLIAMENT.UK | £84 | Paid |
| 22 April 2025 | Office Costs · Advertising and contact cards | FACEBK [***] | £75 | Paid |
| 1 July 2025 | Accommodation · Utilities | Electricity — OVO ENERGY LTD | £74 | Paid |
| 18 January 2025 | Office Costs · Venue hire, meetings & surgeries | — | £72 | Paid |
Source: IPSA, MP staffing and business costs (Open Government Licence v3), joined on IPSA’s Parliamentary ID, which is Parliament’s member id. These are the running costs of an MP’s office and staff, claimed within IPSA’s rules and paid by IPSA; they are not the member’s salary and not personal income. A claim is a claim, not a finding. Staffing costs are published by IPSA in aggregate categories, not per employee.
Meetings recorded in departmental transparency returns
141 meetings recorded under this name as a minister in the quarterly returns of Department for Work and Pensions. The name in the department’s file matched exactly one member of the Commons, which is the only reason it is shown here.
| Date | Met | Purpose, as recorded | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | Royal Society of Arts | To discuss Collective Defined Contribution pension schemes | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 25 March 2026 | Aegon | To discuss the Pension Schemes Bill and wider private pensions policy | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 25 March 2026 | AFORE | To discuss the UK pension landscape | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 19 March 2026 | TPT Retirement Solutions | To discuss the Pension Schemes Bill | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 18 March 2026 | George Eaton, Senior Editor, New Statesman | Routine media engagement | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 17 March 2026 | Motability | To discuss the Motability scheme | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 16 March 2026 | Oli Dugmore, Executive Editor (digital), New Statesman | Routine media engagement | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 12 March 2026 | People's Partnership | Visit to the People�s Partnership headquarters to open their refurbished office space and meet with staff. | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 5 March 2026 | Trade Union Congress | Keynote speech on the pension policy landscape at the Trade Union Congress Pensions Conference. | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 4 March 2026 | Social Market Foundation | Broad discussions on the UK pension system | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 3 March 2026 | UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association | Keynote speech on pension policy developments at UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association's annual flagship Conference | Department for Work and Pensions |
| 3 March 2026 | Resolution Foundation, Sunday Times, Institute of Fiscal Studies, Panmureliberum, Institute for Government, Deloitte, Item-Club, KPMG, The Observer, Confederation of British Industries, Capital Economics | Economic Roundtable | Department for Work and Pensions |
Source: each department’s “ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings” return on GOV.UK (Open Government Licence v3), read by Civometry and listed under ministerial transparency. A recorded meeting establishes that the department published the line; it does not establish what was said or what followed. Every meeting is on the member’s graph page.
Sources on this page: UK Parliament Members API, Register of Members’ Financial Interests API and Commons Votes API (Open Parliament Licence); Electoral Commission register of donations; IPSA business costs. Each section links its own official record. This page assembles public registers and draws no conclusion from their appearing together.