Ben Maguire MP: votes, interests and costs
Ben Maguire (Liberal Democrat) is the MP for North Cornwall, elected on 4 July 2024. The Members API lists the post of Liberal Democrat Shadow Attorney General from 18 September 2024.
Offices and committees
Ben Maguire holds this post, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat Shadow Attorney General | Opposition Department | 18 September 2024 | Current |
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Home Affairs Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee | 23 October 2024 | 31 October 2024 |
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill | 23 October 2024 | 31 October 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 728c96413797.
Register of interests
Ben Maguire has 6 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 4 August 2024 and the latest on 20 July 2026. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (2), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (1), Employment and earnings (1), Shareholdings (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Simon Ruddick - £948.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Communication development which included facilitator, overnight accommodation, food and drink
- Value of the benefit: £948.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-07-09
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-07-09
- End date, if the benefit was received over time: 2026-07-10
- Name of the donor: Simon Ruddick
- Status of the donor: Individual
Anthony Dunn - £5,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: to cover leaflet and communications expenses
- Value of the benefit: £5,000.00
- Name of the donor: Anthony Dunn
- Status of the donor: Individual
Consultant Solicitor - Paddle and Cocks LLP
- Type of work or service being provided: Consultant Solicitor
- Date the agreement started: 2026-03-09
- Name of the payer: Paddle and Cocks LLP
- Brief description of the payer's business: Law firm
National Liberal Club - £1,310.75
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Honorary membership of National Liberal Club offered to Liberal Democrat MPs who reside outside of London
- Value of the benefit: £1,310.75
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2024-12-31
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2024-12-31
- End date, if the benefit was received over time: 2025-12-31
- Name of the donor: National Liberal Club
- Status of the donor: Company
Shares in Maguire Cervantes Property Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Maguire Cervantes Property Limited
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: It is a holding company for one let residential property which is already registered under Category 6
- Held jointly or on behalf of a spouse, partner, or dependent child: Jointly with my spouse
Property in Plymouth
- Location of the land or property: Plymouth
- A description of the property: Terraced House
- Details about the ownership arrangements: co-owned with family member through limited company Maguire Cervantes Property Limited. This is the only property I own and the only property Maguire Cervantes Property Limited owns.
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Ben Maguire's 2024-25 staffing spend as £131,412 (budget £185,538). Office costs came to £25,289 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 | £131,412.22 |
| Office costs: spent | £25,289.25 |
| Accommodation: spent | £12,558.79 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £8,865.23 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £14,750 (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 outside the London area from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: North Cornwall CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Communications Advisor ×2 (permanent part time), Intern (fixed term part time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Constituency Communications Manager (fixed term part time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Administrative Manager (fixed term full time), Communications Officer (fixed term part time), Constituency Assistant (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Ben Maguire is recorded voting in 373 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 29 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 an Aye on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 25 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Ben Maguire has tabled 603 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Treasury; Department for Transport; Department for Work and Pensions; and others.
Bluetongue Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department considered the potential merits of including a screening for bluetongue virus at abattoirs within the National Disease Surveillance scheme.
Hospitality Industry and Tourism: Cornwall
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funding his Department is making available for small businesses in the a) hospitality and b) tourism sector in Cornwall.
Driving Licences: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to driving licence renewals on medical grounds, what the current average waiting time is from submission of an application to the return of a licence.
Driving Licences: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to driving licence renewals on medical grounds, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that drivers who must renew annually are notified of timescales ahead of deadlines to avoid interrupt …
Personal Care Services: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the reported 70% decline in apprenticeships in the hairdressing sector.
Personal Care Services: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that small hair salons can continue to train young people as apprentices.
Personal Care Services: Operating Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to prevent increases in employment costs from discouraging small salon businesses from (i) employing, and (ii) training people.
Personal Care Services: Operating Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the cumulative impact of increases in the (i) National Minimum Wage, (ii) employer National Insurance contributions, (iii) business rates …
Veterans: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will consider the potential merits of distributing monies left over in the the £75m LGBT Veterans Financial Recognition Scheme to eligible veterans, amended from the current cap of £50m earmarke …
Spinal Injuries: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the report by the APPG on Spinal Cord Injury entitled Fragmented to Coordinated: Building a National Strategy for S …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 7f3218862c13. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Ben Maguire.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election North Cornwall returned Ben Maguire with a majority of 9,957: 24,094 votes, 47.0% of those cast, against 14,137 for Scott Mann. Result as published: LD gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · North Cornwall figures
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