Amanda Martin MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North is Amanda Martin (Labour).
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Amanda Martin as a current member of these 3 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| General Cemetery Bill [HL] | 16 September 2025 | Current |
| Norwich Livestock Market Bill [HL] | 25 June 2025 | Current |
| Court of Referees | 27 February 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill | 25 June 2025 | 25 June 2025 |
| Football Governance Bill [HL] | 14 May 2025 | 17 June 2025 |
| Planning and Infrastructure Bill | 24 April 2025 | 22 May 2025 |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 15 January 2025 | 11 February 2025 |
| Armed Forces Commissioner Bill | 4 December 2024 | 12 December 2024 |
| Education Committee | 21 October 2024 | 28 October 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 48075b0080c1.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Amanda Martin, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (6), Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (4), Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK (1), Visits outside the UK (1). Latest registration 12 May 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Portsmouth Community Football Club - £57.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Match tickets to Pompey Women final game of the season and a meal
- Value of the benefit: £57.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-04-26
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-04-26
- Name of the donor: Portsmouth Community Football Club
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Portsmouth Community Football Club
Portsmouth Community Football Club - £300.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Match ticket and hospitality for 2 people
- Value of the benefit: £300.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-05-02
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-05-02
- Name of the donor: Portsmouth Community Football Club
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Portsmouth Community Football Club
Paddy Power part of Flutter Entertainment plc - £1,000.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Two tickets with hospitality to attend the Professional Darts Association World Darts competition as a guest of Paddy Power
- Value of the benefit: £1,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-12-29
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-12-29
- Name of the donor: Paddy Power part of Flutter Entertainment plc
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Paddy Power part of Flutter Entertainment plc
Portsmouth Community Football Club - £375.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Match tickets and hospitality
- Value of the benefit: £375.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-11-22
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-11-22
- Name of the donor: Portsmouth Community Football Club
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Portsmouth Community Football Club
International visit to Bahrain between 02 May 2025 and 05 May 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Armed Forces Parliamentary Navy scheme visit to the United Kingdom Naval Support Facility (UKNSF) Bahrain.
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-05-02
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-05-05
HM Government of Gibraltar - £1,950.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Three nights' accommodation during the Labour Party Conference. I repaid this interest on 2 July 2026
- Value of the benefit: £1,950.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-09-28
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-09-28
- End date, if the benefit was received over time: 2025-10-01
- Name of the donor: HM Government of Gibraltar
- Status of the donor: Other
Trustee of the Lucy Lund Fund, a charity for people who require rest or a holiday and who are in need of financial assistance. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Platform Portsmouth Founding Member. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee National Education Museum. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member of Portsmouth Supporters Trust Board. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee of STEMunity. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee treasurer of Loaves of Love (a constituted community group). This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Amanda Martin's office spent £148,655 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. Office costs came to £30,026 of a £30,426 budget. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £148,654.80 |
| Office costs: spent | £30,025.77 |
| Accommodation: spent | £18,517.65 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £8,156.68 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £309.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £26,608 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024, with an uplift to cover the cost of one dependant).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Portsmouth North BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Parliamentary Assistant (casual), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Administrative Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker ×3 (casual), Caseworker ×2 (permanent part time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Amanda Martin is recorded voting in 516 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 49 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. The most recent, on 21 October 2026, was a No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
The Written Questions API lists 69 written questions from Amanda Martin since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade ; Home Office; Women and Equalities; Ministry of Defence.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support self-employed workers.
Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to Portsmouth City Council over the past two years for domestic abuse services and to tackle violence against women and girls.
Flexible Working: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support women in the workplace with flexible working.
Menopause: Employment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that employers are supporting women managing Menopause in the workplace.
Armed Forces: Paternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the retention rate is for armed forces personnel who (a) have and (b) have not taken paternity leave.
Armed Forces: Paternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel took paternity leave, broken down by (a) branch of the armed forces and (b) age in each of the last five years.
Armed Forces: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of moving parental and compassionate leave requests outside of the direct chain of command.
Armed Forces: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) parental and (b) compassionate leave requests were (i) refused, (ii) deferred and (iii) recalled in each branch of the armed forces in 2025.
Armed Forces: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether commanding officers receive training on implementing parental and compassionate leave policies.
Armed Forces: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he takes to ensure that regulations for parental and compassionate leave are communicated to personnel in each branch of the armed forces.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 7352cee47eec. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Amanda Martin.
2024 general election
Amanda Martin won Portsmouth North at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 14,495 votes (34.8%), a majority of 780 over Penny Mordaunt (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Portsmouth North figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.