Statistics

MPs Asking the Most Parliamentary Questions

Current MPs ranked by the number of written and oral parliamentary questions tabled in the last 12 months, highest first.

Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative) has tabled the most parliamentary questions in the last 12 months, with 3,196 questions.

  1. Ben Obese-Jecty , 3,196 questions
  2. James McMurdock , 3,098 questions
  3. Mike Wood , 2,005 questions
  4. Mr Richard Holden , 1,942 questions
  5. Sir James Cleverly , 1,618 questions

Showing 1-25 of 650 MPs

# MP Questions tabled
1 3,196 questions
2 3,098 questions
3 2,005 questions
4 1,942 questions
5 1,618 questions
6 1,547 questions
7 1,421 questions
8 1,161 questions
9 1,132 questions
10 1,061 questions
11 905 questions
12 839 questions
13 823 questions
14 759 questions
15 747 questions
16 735 questions
17 700 questions
18 685 questions
19 681 questions
20 680 questions
21 634 questions
22 621 questions
23 609 questions
24 599 questions
25 561 questions
Member source UK Parliament Members API
Voting source Commons Votes API

FAQs

How is this ranking calculated?

Current MPs ranked by the number of written and oral parliamentary questions tabled in the last 12 months, highest first.

Where does the data come from?

Rankings use official UK Parliament data, the Commons Votes API for voting and the Members API for MP details. Some measures are locally derived analysis by Ayes and Noes and are labelled as such; see the methodology on the statistics overview.

How often is it updated?

The ranking reflects the most recent data import. It refreshes as new divisions and member data are imported.

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