Antonia Bance MP: votes, interests and costs
Antonia Bance represents Tipton and Wednesbury in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Antonia Bance as a current member of these 2 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls | 5 March 2025 | Current |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d005d0f9b72c.
Register of interests
Antonia Bance has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 3 October 2025 and the latest on 28 September 2026. By category: Family members engaged in third-party lobbying (1), Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Charlotte Dawkins employed as Lobbyist
- Job title or role: Director
- Name of employer: Charlotte Dawkins Consulting
- Name of the family member acting as a lobbyist: Charlotte Dawkins
- Who the family member is directly related to: Related to member directly
- Nature of relationship: Partner
GMB - £900.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Hotel room and breakfast for two nights at Labour party conference in Liverpool, at £450 per night
- Value of the benefit: £900.00
- 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: 2025-09-30
- Name of the donor: GMB
- Status of the donor: Trade Union
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £161,178 for Antonia Bance in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £25,380 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 | £161,177.81 |
| Office costs: spent | £25,379.68 |
| Accommodation: spent | £1,012.61 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £9,429.17 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
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: Tipton and Wednesbury BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker (casual), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent part time), Communications Officer (permanent part time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time), Caseworker ×2 (fixed term part time), Research Officer (fixed term part time), Policy Assistant (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Antonia Bance is recorded voting in 446 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 52 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".
| Date | Division and vote recorded |
|---|---|
| 21 October 2026 | Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers: No |
| 19 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 | Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading Aye; Programme Motion Aye |
| 19 October 2026 to 20 October 2026 | Northern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 12 No; New Clause 7 No; Amendment 32 No; Amendment 51 No; New Clause 21 No; Amendment 47 No; Amendment 4 No; Amendment 52 No; Amendment 23 No |
| 14 October 2026 | Opposition Day motion: Inheritance Tax No; MoD Bicester and illegal migrants No |
| 13 October 2026 | Courts and Tribunals Bill: Third Reading: Aye |
| 13 October 2026 | Courts and Tribunals Bill Report Stage: Amendment 18 No; Amendment 1 No; New Clause 25 No |
| 11 September 2026 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading: No |
| 7 September 2026 | Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No; Report Stage: New Clause 6 No |
| 2 September 2026 | Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading Aye; Report Stage: New Clause 88 No; Report Stage: New Clause 67 No; Report Stage: New Clause 65 No |
| 14 July 2026 | Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No; Amendment 199 No; Amendment 3 No |
| 13 July 2026 | Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Aye; Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No |
Source: Commons Votes API, read 24 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 62 written questions from Antonia Bance since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Department for Transport; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Treasury; and others.
Pancreatic Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that patients with pancreatic cancer are automatically linked to available clinical trials.
Pancreatic Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve access to clinical trials for people with pancreatic cancer.
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions her Department has had with haulage businesses, training providers, insurers, and industry bodies on the impact of the 2021 removal of staged access to Category C+E HGV licences.
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how frequently the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency audits approved providers delivering Module 3A of the HGV driving test; and how many providers have been found not to meet the required standards in each y …
Iron and Steel: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will consider bringing the Contracts for Difference Scheme under the remit of the Procurement Policy Note for Steel and the national security clauses of the Procurement Act.
Iron and Steel: Imports
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of restricting the UK CBAM to primary materials on imports of finished steel goods.
Net Zero Teesside Power: Iron and Steel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reviewing public procurement policy to (a) incentivise and (b) require greater use of UK-made steel in publicly funding projects in th …
Iron and Steel: Energy Intensive Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will expand the Energy Supercharger package to include a larger proportion of the steel industry and related sectors, including scrap.
Procurement: Renewable Energy
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on extending the Procurement Act and Procurement Policy Note for Steel to Contracts for Difference.
Academies: Electric Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2026 to Question 1603 on Academies: Electric Vehicles, whether the review of electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes for academy trusts has concluded; and when academy trusts …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 22e5a08e2e0e. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Antonia Bance.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Tipton and Wednesbury returned Antonia Bance with a majority of 3,385: 11,755 votes, 36.9% of those cast, against 8,370 for Shaun Bailey. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Tipton and Wednesbury figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Antonia Bance corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Antonia Bance:
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.