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How Karen Bradley votes

Karen Bradley voted the same way as their party in 100% of the votes where parties gave instructions. In 0 of those 113 votes, they went the other way.

What does this mean?

Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high score is normal and says nothing about whether an MP is good or bad. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. Words explained

Recent votes

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteAgainstFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateAgainstFree vote
2 SepVoting and elections: the final voteAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeForSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeForSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Declared interests

MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.

Karen Bradley has 18 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment expected for services on 15 July 2026 - £150.0015 Jul 2026
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesSilverstone Circuits Ltd - £1,860.0014 Jul 2026
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesAllwyn Entertainment Ltd - £4,400.0014 Jul 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment expected for services on 20 May 2026 - £150.0020 May 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment expected for services on 18 March 2026 - £150.0023 Mar 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment expected for services on 25 February 2026 - £150.0025 Feb 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment expected for services on 17 December 2025 - £150.0017 Dec 2025
MiscellaneousMember of the Inter Parliamentary Union Executive Committee. This is an unpaid role.3 Nov 2025
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesAllwyn Entertainment Ltd - £1,190.007 Oct 2025
MiscellaneousVice-chair of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. This is an unpaid role.21 Feb 2025
Show the other 8
TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousTreasurer of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role.17 Feb 2025
MiscellaneousSubstitute member of the UK delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.4 Dec 2024
MiscellaneousA member of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Board to assist Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in the Governance of the new funding programme. This is an unpaid role.30 Nov 2022
MiscellaneousA Trustee of the Arise Foundation, a charity which seeks to confront modern slavery and human trafficking through frontline organisations. This is an unpaid role.26 Apr 2022
MiscellaneousChair of the new Restoring Your Railway Leek – Stoke Board and Steering Committee. This is an unpaid role and meetings are monthly.8 Apr 2022
MiscellaneousMember (unpaid) of the panel for the Community Foundation for Staffordshire’s We Love the Moorlands programme, which offers funding support to assist grassroots community and voluntary organisations that are based across the Moorlands area.11 Nov 2021
Employment and earningsMember of the Advisory Board of the House Magazine - Political Engagement Limited1 Jul 2021
MiscellaneousTrustee (unpaid) of the Human Trafficking Foundation, a non-profit organisation which works to help victims of human trafficking and modern slavery. I consulted ACOBA about this role.5 Nov 2020

Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page

Questions

MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.

Karen Bradley has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.

Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026

Expenses

MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.

PAID IN 2025-26
£11,589
Office costs · claims for running an office£11,589

51 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data

Election result and area

Karen Bradley represents Staffordshire Moorlands. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Karen Bradley

Conservative

MAJORITY
1,175

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
62%

of people who could vote did

Karen Bradley won with 35% of the votes, and Alastair Watson (Labour) came second with 33%.

Votes for each party

Conservative35% · 15,310
Labour33% · 14,135
Reform UK23% · 10,065
Green Party5% · 2,293
Liberal Democrat3% · 1,499
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Karen BradleyConservative15,31035.4%
Alastair WatsonLabour14,13532.6%
Dave PooleReform UK10,06523.2%
Helen SteadGreen Party2,2935.3%
Graham OakesLiberal Democrat1,4993.5%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£762 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
2.2%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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Has this changed over time? 90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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Source: Commons Votes API

This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this