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Sarah Champion · Labour Party · sitting since 29 Nov 2012 · every division, speech and committee appearance.
Since election
4895days
from 29 Nov 2012
Divisions
312
of 504 possible
Attendance
62%
192 absent / paired
Whip alignment
100%
vs party majority
Speeches
76
34 debates
Written Qs
228
223 answered
Committees
3
1 chair
Expenses
£291k paid
FY 2024–2025 · 188 claims
Interests
5
3 categories
A · Overview
Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted — engagement only, not direction.
| Issue | Volume | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Taxation | 68 | |
| Economy | 53 | |
| Crime & Policing | 34 | |
| Welfare and Benefits | 22 | |
| Employment | 22 | |
| Energy | 20 | |
| Constitution and Democracy | 18 | |
| Education | 16 |
Speech topics
Words spoken, by topic. Source: Hansard.
| Topic | Debates | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Mp Performance | 1 | — |
| Environment | 12 | 9,432 |
| Economy Jobs | 10 | 8,071 |
| Defence | 18 | 5,412 |
| Cost Of Living | 2 | 2,810 |
| Crime | 5 | 2,310 |
| Health | 2 | 1,486 |
| Local Government | 4 | 1,310 |
B · Notable divisions
Free votes, rebellions and high-salience whipped votes — the moments that distinguish this MP from the party machine. The full division-by-division record will follow once the per-MP archive is wired.
No notable votes recorded for this MP yet.
C · Speeches
| Date | Contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Apr 2026 | Gulf ConflictLebanon’s humanitarian flash fund secured less than a third of the money that was required. Some 20% of the Lebanese population is currently displaced, and 40,000 housing units hav… DefenceEnergyCost Of Living | 109 |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Security VettingThere are 61 conflicts raging around the world, and I have never known international diplomatic relationships to be more fractured. The FCDO is pushing through 40% cuts of aid and … Mp PerformanceDefence | 59 |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Victims and Courts BillI welcome this Bill and this Government’s laser focus on supporting victims and survivors, which has been lacking in our courts system for a very long time. I hear what the Ministe… Crime | 83 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)Thank you. Projects in Sudan, Somalia and Tunisia that were previously described by FCDO as essential to counter the rise of violence and extremism are now being cut. The integrate… | 101 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)Again, I am really pleased and proud that you have made tackling violence against women and girls a priority in the UK. Is it also your intention to have it as a priority internati… | 34 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)I view foreign aid as an early intervention arrangement. | 9 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)Prime Minister, can I build on Debbie’s point? I have been really shocked at the rapid rate of expansion of the unlawful settlements, so I am really grateful for the sanctions that… | 107 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)That comes beautifully into my last question. You will have heard today the warning from the UN that basically there is now more CO2 in the air than in the last 2 million years. We… | 62 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)I am thinking, for example, that the US has basically put a gagging clause on any agency—state agencies as well as charities—that are working with sexual and reproductive health ri… | 44 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)Are you able to do anything to push back against the challenge—if I call it that—of the anti-gender movement, and the backsliding on both women’s and girls’ rights but also LGBT ri… | 57 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Liaison Committee (Commons) — Oral Evidence (HC 530)Is it still your priority to get back to more spend on overseas development? | 14 |
| 19 Mar 2026 | International DevelopmentThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that my voice will last—the Foreign Secretary might get off lightly. This was meant to be a statement about the 40% cuts that the Government… DefenceEconomy JobsEnvironment | 448 |
| 04 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeI will of course give way. DefenceEconomy JobsEnvironment | 6 |
| 04 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeI thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. Polio is one of the success stories to show what can happen when countries work together, and we have almost completely eradicated it… DefenceEconomy JobsEnvironment | 298 |
| 04 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we have FCDO and trade staff working together to support the work that he and many others are doing. Trade is fantastic—it is somethi… DefenceEconomy JobsEnvironment | 97 |
D · Written questions
Top departments
| Department | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 56 | 24.6% |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 45 | 19.7% |
| Home Office | 26 | 11.4% |
| Ministry of Justice | 22 | 9.6% |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 19 | 8.3% |
| Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | 14 | 6.1% |
| Department for Transport | 12 | 5.3% |
| Department for Business and Trade | 11 | 4.8% |
Most recent
| Date | Department | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2026 | Department for Transport | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the current average distance between emergency refuge areas on All Lane Running Smart Motorways. | Pending |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the planned consultation on banning the use of high-concentration carbon dioxide gas stunning for pigs will include a proposed timetable for phasing out that met… | Pending |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Department for Transport | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Third Report of the Transport Committee of Session 2021–22, Rollout and safety of smart motorways, HC26, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that emergency refuges… | Pending |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Ethiopian counterpart on evidence published by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab on the use of… | Pending |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps their department will take to ensure all police forces will be kept updated to latest trends and best practice relating to modern slavery and human trafficking now support th… | Answered |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to include decapod crustaceans in the Animal Welfare Act 2006; and if she will publish a timeline for an announcement on that decision. | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of Greenpeace’s report entitled Equity, Benefit-Sharing and Financial Architecture… | Answered |
| 16 Mar 2026 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether their department plans to collect and publish data on the number of modern slavery and human trafficking police investigations, after this is no longer done by the National Poli… | Answered |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the working group on fur, announced in the Animal Welfare Strategy, will include virologists and environmental scientists with expertise in the public health and… | Answered |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Chevening Scholars have subsequently claimed asylum in the UK. | Pending |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure a coordinated national policing response to modern slavery, in the context of the removal of funding for the Modern Slavery and Organi… | Answered |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring remote electronic monitoring systems on all pelagic freezer trawlers of 100 meters or more operating in… | Answered |
| 05 Mar 2026 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the FCDO 2030 restructure on availability of qualified staff at gold, silver and bronze commander level… | Answered |
| 04 Mar 2026 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the removal of funding from the Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Unit on dedicated national policing fun… | Answered |
| 04 Mar 2026 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards will be included in the UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to ensure the UK maintains the ability to set animal welfare standards unilaterally, f… | Answered |
E · Committees
| Committee | Role | House | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liaison Committee (Commons)Select | Member | Commons | 04 Dec 2024 | present |
| International Development CommitteeSelect | Member | Commons | 11 Sept 2024 | present |
| International Development CommitteeSelect | Chair | Commons | 11 Sept 2024 | present |
F · Expenses
Every business-cost claim reimbursed by IPSA in the current financial year, grouped by category. “Aggregated” rows are IPSA’s own year-end totals for cost types like payroll and rent that aren’t itemised claim-by-claim.
Category breakdown
| Category | Claims | Paid (£) | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office Costs | 141 | 23,179 | 8.0% |
| Accommodation | 13 | 27,139 | 9.3% |
| Staffing | 12 | 229,186 | 78.7% |
| MP Travel | 0 | 7,520 | 2.6% |
| Staff Travel | 0 | 4,169 | 1.4% |
Top itemised cost types
| Cost type | Category | Claims | Paid (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pooled staffing services | Office Costs | 1 | 4,600 |
| Stationery & printing | Office Costs | 34 | 3,641 |
| Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Office Costs | 23 | 2,695 |
| Recruitment Services &Costs | Office Costs | 3 | 1,330 |
| Software & applications | Office Costs | 12 | 1,059 |
| Mobile telephone - contract & usage | Office Costs | 15 | 968 |
| Equipment - purchase | Office Costs | 9 | 752 |
| Council tax | Accommodation | 1 | 730 |
| Utilities | Accommodation | 12 | 550 |
| Mobile telephone - equipment purchase | Office Costs | 3 | 451 |
| Newspapers, journals, magazines | Office Costs | 13 | 370 |
| Utilities | Office Costs | 8 | 203 |
Most recent
| Date | Category | Description | Paid (£) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Apr 2025 | Accommodation Utilities | Electricity | 19 | Paid |
| 25 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Mobile telephone - contract & usage | GIFFGAFF [200011725-7308] | 10 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 479 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 304 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 208 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 203 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 137 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 69 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 12 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 12 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 12 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 12 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 11 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 6 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 6 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 6 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 5 | Paid |
| 19 Mar 2025 | Accommodation Utilities | Electricity | 42 | Paid |
| 14 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | ADOBE ADOBE [200011725-4081] | 119 | Paid |
| 13 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Surgery leaflets | 167 | Paid |
G · Register of interests
Every financial interest declared by the MP, grouped under the Register’s official categories. Retracted entries are hidden but counted above.
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1 entry
15 Jul 2025
Name of donor: Silverstone
Address of donor: The Jimmy Brown Centre, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester NN12 8TN
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality for myself and my partner to the British Grand Prix Saturday qualifier, value £1,400
Date received: 5 July 2025
Date accepted: 5 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 00882843
(Registered 9 July 2025)
4. Visits outside the UK3 entries
06 Jan 2026
Name of donor: Doha Forum Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the state of Qatar
Address of donor: Al Mirqab Tower, West Bay, Doha Qatar
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£5233) and accommodation (£405), value £5,638
Destination of visit: Qatar (Doha)
Dates of visit: 5 December 2025 to 8 December 2025
Purpose of visit: To attend the Doha Forum on Diplomacy, Dialogue and Diversity and meetings with Qatari ministers to discuss Conflict Resolution.
(Registered 17 December 2025)
15 Jul 2025
Name of donor: (1) Government of Jersey (2) States of Guernsey
Address of donor: (1) 2 Queen Annes Gate Buildings, Dartmouth Street SW1H 9BP (2) Sir Charles Frossard House, La Charotterie, Guernsey GY1 1FH
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) Flights (£210), hotel (approx. £740), local transportation (approx £750) and food (approx. £700), value £2,400 (2) Flights (£435), local transportation (approx £480) and food (approx. £116), value £1,031
Destination of visit: Jersey and Guernsey
Dates of visit: 24 June 2025 to 30 June 2025
Purpose of visit: Orientation and research trip as Chair of APPG Channel Islands, with Senior Researcher
(Registered 8 July 2025)
17 Jun 2025
Name of donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar
Address of donor: Embassy of the State of Qatar in London, 1 South Audley Street, London W1U 4FB
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£3200), hotel (approx. £1400), local transportation (approx £500) and food (approx. £600), value £5,700
Destination of visit: Qatar
Dates of visit: 19 May 2025 to 23 May 2025
Purpose of visit: Attending the Bloomberg Qatar Economic Forum 2025 and to meet with Ministers and associated organisations to discuss Qatar’s leading role in peace negotiations and humanitarian issues globally.
(Registered 3 June 2025)
8. Miscellaneous1 entry
13 May 2025
Membership of Advisory Board of the SOAS China
Institute (SCI). This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 25 April 2025
Date interest ended: 24 April 2028
(Registered 6 May 2025)
H · Ward results
Most recent winning councillor in each ward — 9 wards, 23 councillor seats.
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Votes | Election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Castle | Ashiq Hussain | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,166 | 02 May 2024 |
| Boston Castle | Saghir Alam | Labour Party | 1,126 | 02 May 2024 |
| Boston Castle | Taiba Yasseen | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,389 | 02 May 2024 |
| Brinsworth | Adam Jonathon Carter | Liberal Democrats | 1,190 | 02 May 2024 |
| Brinsworth | Charlotte Rachel Carter | Liberal Democrats | 1,114 | 02 May 2024 |
| Dalton Thrybergh | Jodie Ryalls | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 628 | 02 May 2024 |
| Dalton Thrybergh | Michael Bennett-Sylvester | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 930 | 02 May 2024 |
| Greasbrough | Linda Beresford | Labour Party | 636 | 02 May 2024 |
| Greasbrough | Rob Elliott | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 616 | 02 May 2024 |
| Keppel | Carole Foster | Labour Party | 1,092 | 02 May 2024 |
| Keppel | Gill Garnett | Labour Party | 1,179 | 02 May 2024 |
| Keppel | Sid Currie | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,068 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rother Vale | Jamie Baggaley | Labour Party | 840 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rother Vale | Terry Adair | Labour Party | 841 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham East | Angham Ahmed | Labour Party | 1,072 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham East | Haroon Rashid | Labour Party | 1,037 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham East | Rukhsana Bibi Haleem | Labour Party | 1,001 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham West | Cameron McKiernan | Labour Party | 779 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham West | Eve Rose Keenan | Labour Party | 939 | 02 May 2024 |
| Rotherham West | Ian Paul Jones | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,495 | 02 May 2024 |
| Wickersley North | James Jonathon Mault | Labour Party | 1,273 | 02 May 2024 |
| Wickersley North | Lynda Marshall | Labour Party | 1,177 | 02 May 2024 |
| Wickersley North | Stuart Knight | Labour Party | 1,116 | 02 May 2024 |
I · Demographics
| Indicator | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Population (2021 Census) | 114,639 | Electorate 75,929 (2024) |
| Median age | 40 | years |
| Degree-educated | 22.5% | level 4 or above |
| Ethnicity (White) | 84.5% | 2021 Census ethnic group |
| Owner-occupied | 59.2% | households |
| Private-rented | 16.5% | households |
| Social-rented | 23.9% | households |
| Employment rate | 53.3% | 16-64 in work |
J · Public spending
HMT publishes headline spending identifiable by region in PESA. Constituency-level capital allocations (Levelling-Up Fund, Towns Fund, UKSPF, transport capital, BEIS R&D) are published as separate departmental datasets. We are evaluating the cleanest reconciliation for a per-constituency view.