Stephen Yemm (born January 1964) is a British
Labour Party politician who has been
Member of Parliament for
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...
since 2024.
Early life and career
Yemm received a
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...
degree in Applied Chemistry from the
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948.
Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...
.
He was the Labour candidate in the 2011
Mansfield mayoral election, and defeated by
Mansfield Independent Forum candidate
Tony Egginton
Tony Egginton (born 1951) was the first directly elected Mayor of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. He was elected to the position on 17 October 2002, beating Labour's Lorna Carter by 588 votes, ending 30 years of Labour control.
Egginto ...
by a majority of 67 votes on
second preference voting.
Prior to becoming an MP, Yemm worked in
IT and was a long-term chairman of Mansfield's local Labour group between 2008 and 2017.
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Parliamentary career
In March 2023 Yemm was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Mansfield.
Yemm was elected as
Member of Parliament for
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...
at the
2024 general election
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, defeating his Conservative predecessor
Ben Bradley.
In January 2025, Yemm called on the UK Government to release surplus funds from the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme to support former mineworkers and their families. This followed the government's earlier decision to release £1.5 billion from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme.
In April 2025, Yemm apologised and referred himself to the
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is an officer of the British House of Commons. The work of the officer is overseen by the Commons Select Committee on Standards.
The current commissioner is Daniel Greenberg.
Duties
The commissio ...
after failing to declare a £10,000 donation from Power Saving Solutions while praising the company in a House of Commons speech about construction standards.
Personal life
Yemm has three adult daughters with his wife,
a consultant radiographer at
Kings Mill Hospital. He has lived in Mansfield all his life.
References
External links
Living people
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
UK MPs 2024–present
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Year of birth missing (living people)
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