Carla Lockhart MP: votes, interests and costs
Carla Lockhart (Democratic Unionist Party) is the MP for Upper Bann, in the seat since 12 December 2019.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Carla Lockhart; earlier posts are below.
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill | 15 May 2024 | 22 May 2024 |
| Northern Ireland Affairs Committee | 8 November 2022 | 30 May 2024 |
| British Sign Language Bill | 9 February 2022 | 23 February 2022 |
| Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill | 5 January 2022 | 12 January 2022 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 24e90c01baa8.
Register of interests
Carla Lockhart has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 3 February 2020 and the latest on . By category: Employment and earnings (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Farming and administrative duties
- Name of the payer: Carla Lockhart and Rodney Condell
- Agreement - £2,500.00
Agricultural in County Fermanagh
- Location of the land or property: County Fermanagh
- Details about the ownership arrangements: I own jointly with my husband
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- Use of the land: Agricultural
Governor of Dickson Primary School, Lurgan, Magheralin Primary School and Lurgan Junior High School.
- 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)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Carla Lockhart's 2024-25 staffing spend as £204,743 (budget £250,820). In 2023-24 it was £181,669. Office costs came to £28,057 of a £33,020 budget. 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 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £204,742.73 | £181,668.60 | £178,144.10 |
| Office costs: spent | £28,056.65 | £28,491.19 | £27,610.18 |
| Accommodation: spent | £6,914.86 | £5,468.90 | £25,213.81 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £18,911.67 | £15,040.10 | £17,010.04 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £35,970 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area, with an uplift to cover the cost of one dependant).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Upper Bann CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Communication Officer (casual), Constituency Assistant (casual), Office Manager (permanent full time), Administrative Officer (permanent part time), Constituency Support Officer (casual), Constituency Support Officer (permanent part time), Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent part time), Communications Officer (casual), Administrative Officer (casual), Administrative Officer/Comms Officer (permanent full time), Press Officer (casual), Administrative Officer/Comms Officer (casual), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Carla Lockhart is recorded voting in 303 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 20 October 2026, was a No on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
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 368 written questions from Carla Lockhart since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Home Office; Department for Work and Pensions.
Surrogacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2026 to Question 120432, what recent assessment he has made of the consistency between (a) the Government’s policy of recognizing parental orders arising from com …
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2026 to Question 122234, what steps were taken in response to those three whistleblowing reports; and whether any procedural, governance and training change …
Iran: Disinformation
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 reports of networks linked to the Iranian regime using AI-generated images and videos to dissem …
Nigeria: Surrogacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the (i) risks to women involved in commercial surrogacy arrangements in Nigeria, including (a) maternal mortality, (b) contractual condi …
Gaza: Conflict Resolution
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the risks of the international community agreeing a diplomatic framework relating to the Gaza conflict before the dismantling of Hamas’s milit …
Israel: Hamas
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with international counterparts on survivor accounts of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on and since 7 October 2023.
Hong Kong: Oppression
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of reports that individuals legally residing in the UK who previously resided in Hong Kong have been the subject of bounty noti …
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what Northern Ireland-specific data her Department holds but does not publish on asylum, immigration enforcement, removals and foreign national offenders.
Canada: Religious Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with the government of Canada on protections for peaceful religious expression in proposed hate speech legislation.
Social Security Benefits: Surrogacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2026 to Question 120434, and pursuant to PQ v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason payments received by a surrogate mother are treated as income f …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 a6c99cc18fa7. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Carla Lockhart.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Upper Bann returned Carla Lockhart with a majority of 7,406: 21,642 votes, 45.7% of those cast, against 14,236 for Catherine Nelson. Result as published: DUP hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Upper Bann 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.