Ben Coleman’s record in Parliament
Labour · MP for Chelsea and Fulham, the seat covering Fulham · email your MP
What your MP has actually voted for, said in the Commons and asked ministers about, topic by topic. We don’t tell you what they think — we show you what they did, with a link to the official record on every line, so you can read it yourself.
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Has said “Fulham” in the Commons 44 times.
“I have the pleasure of representing the constituency of Chelsea and Fulham, and Fulham is under the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which has long been twinned with the Berlin borough of Neukölln. I was very impressed, when we visited Neukölln, to see that it actually had the Hammersmith…”
What they work on most
- Housing23
- NHS and health8
- Schools7
- Small business6
How many times they have spoken or asked a minister about each topic in the record below. It shows where their time goes — not what they think about it.
Housing
Building, renting and homelessness
In their own words
“Does my hon. Friend recognise that London has the highest housing costs in the whole country and a quarter of Londoners live in poverty? Coming down the track towards London is the Government’s fair funding review, under which local authorities in London could lose up to £700 million in funding.…”
“What leaps out in page after page of the report is the council’s absolute lack of respect for so many of its residents—how it refused to listen to people living in social housing when again and again they raised concerns about the problems with the Grenfell building that eventually contributed to…”
3 contributions mention “housing” — read them all on Hansard.
Questions they tabled
- Private Rented Housing: Standards · 15 April 2026
- Private Rented Housing: Standards · 15 April 2026
- Private Rented Housing: Standards · 15 April 2026
Rivers and sewage
The Thames, water quality and discharges
How they voted
- AYEOpposition Day: Sewage: Government amendment · 23 April 2025
- NOOpposition Day: Sewage: Lib Dem motion · 23 April 2025
In their own words
“I will talk about sewage, of which there is plenty. The manifesto says: “Britain’s coasts, rivers, and lakes are being polluted by illegal sewage dumping… Labour will put failing water companies under special measures to clean up our water.” We have brought in the Water (Special Measures) Bill,…”
“In my constituency—I have been following this for well over two years—the amount of sewage discharge has been absolutely contemptible. In 2023 alone, Thames Water pumped sewage into the river 116 times, for 990 hours, even when it was not raining. I am heartened to hear that, unlike the last…”
Transport
Rail, buses, roads and cycling
In their own words
“According to Contact, a charity for families with disabled children aged 25 or under, 79% of disabled young people are being denied or charged for school transport when they turn 16. One in 10 of them pays more than £1,000 a year, and nearly half of families experience increased stress and…”
NHS and health
Hospitals, GPs and social care
In their own words
“What changed everything for her was a specialist NHS clinical service, where she got a co-ordinated team who understood her condition. They knew her, and they became a genuine lifeline. I met Amy’s wonderful mother, Jayne, and sister Louise on Monday at a rare disease day at St Thomas’ hospital,…”
“We have lost billions in tax revenue for our NHS and schools. The idiot comment from the previous Prime Minister that the NHS would get money from Brexit turned out to be totally the opposite: we have lost billions in tax revenue for the NHS. Alongside my determination to increase trade with…”
7 contributions mention “NHS” — read them all on Hansard.
Questions they tabled
- NHS: Food · 23 March 2026
Schools
Education and childcare
How they voted
- AYEDraft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 · 8 July 2026
- AYEChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: motion to insist on Amendment 38J and disagree with Lords Amendments 38V to 38X · 22 April 2026
- AYEChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Amendments (a) to (c) in lieu of Lords Amendment 106 · 15 April 2026
- AYEChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Amendments (a) to (e) in lieu of Lords Amendment 102 · 15 April 2026
Showing 4 of 24 divisions matching “schools”.
In their own words
“Parents who cannot easily afford to send their children to private schools are digging deep into their pockets, as my constituents in Chelsea and Fulham have written to me. That is the situation we are faced with. Local councils are sending kids to private schools because they cannot do otherwise,…”
“The availability of fast food right outside schools needs to be looked at and curtailed. The food is cheap, but it is incredibly low quality, and it is not doing our children any good. And school food standards are not properly enforced. There is a lot of cheap school food, but in some of the…”
6 contributions mention “schools” — read them all on Hansard.
Questions they tabled
- Schools: Processed Food · 23 March 2026
Policing and crime
Police numbers, safety and courts
How they voted
- AYECrime and Policing Bill: motion to insist on Amendments 439C and 439D and disagree with Lords Amendments 439E and 439F · 22 April 2026
- AYECrime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) to (b) in lieu of Lords Amendments 359 and 439 · 20 April 2026
- AYECrime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) and (b) in lieu of Lords Amendment 342 · 20 April 2026
- AYECrime and Policing Bill: Amendments (a) to (d) in lieu of Lords Amendment 11 · 20 April 2026
Showing 4 of 27 divisions matching “policing”.
Cost of living
Bills, benefits and wages
In their own words
“We will change the remit of the independent Low Pay Commission so for the first time it accounts for the cost of living. Labour will also remove the discriminatory age bands, so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage”. We have raised the national minimum wage and the national living wage;…”
Planning and development
What gets built, and where
How they voted
In their own words
“On new homes, we said: “Labour will get Britain building again…We will immediately update the National Policy Planning Framework” to enable us to build 1.5 million homes. We are bringing in the new planning and infrastructure Bill. We said that we will “build an NHS fit for the future…Labour’s…”
Climate and environment
Emissions, air quality and green space
How they voted
Small business
High streets and the self-employed
In their own words
“It is also no wonder that 20,000 small businesses, all with fewer than 10 employees, have simply stopped exporting to Europe—not by choice but because the costs got too high. The war with Iran is making things even worse. It is pushing up energy and food costs around the globe. Our country’s…”
“These are import businesses, but the costs fall on exporters just as hard, and small businesses can least afford the costs they now face. Large sectors are also paying heavily for our rigid distancing from the European Union. British cars now have to meet a separate set of regulatory requirements…”
Questions they tabled
- Small Businesses: Business Rates · 19 June 2025
- Small Businesses: Business Rates · 19 June 2025
- Small Businesses: Business Rates · 19 June 2025
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How this page works
Everything here comes from Parliament’s own published data: the Commons votes register, Hansard and the written questions service. For each topic we search the record for a key term and show the most recent results, along with how many we found in total so you can see what isn’t on the page.
“What they work on most” is simply a count of those results — the topics they raise most often, which is a fact about their diary, not their opinions. Motions are Early Day Motions they tabled themselves, from Parliament’s EDM service; we show only ones from the current Parliament, because a motion from a previous one tells you what an MP argued then, not what they are pressing for now.
Last checked 1 August 2026; it refreshes every week.
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