Cat Eccles MP: votes, interests and costs
Cat Eccles represents Stourbridge in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Cat Eccles; earlier posts are below.
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill | 13 May 2025 | 14 May 2025 |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] | 6 November 2024 | 13 November 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 28c3fe1bc633.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Cat Eccles, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 18 July 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Councillor, (unpaid since 15 July 2024 and previously registered under Category 1)
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee of Wollaston Village Hall. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 27 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 £123,076 for Cat Eccles in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £26,925 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 | £123,076.13 |
| Office costs: spent | £26,925.18 |
| Accommodation: spent | £19,932.84 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £9,455.57 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (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).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Stourbridge BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Administrative Officer (casual), Caseworker (permanent part time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Cat Eccles is recorded voting in 357 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".
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
Cat Eccles has tabled 139 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Department of Health and Social Care; Home Office; Cabinet Office; and others.
Press: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department will consider the potential merits of establishing a new independent system of press regulation, audited against the Leveson criteria.
Independent Press Standards Organisation
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness and independence of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, in light of its record on upholding complaints, conducting standards i …
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking through penalties to help tackle the sale of illegal tobacco and vapes.
Animal Experiments: Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with MBR Acres about rehoming beagles who do not meet laboratory requirements.
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what her Department's policy is on choosing whether to issue an Emergency Alert nationally or to target a specific geographical location; and whether she plans to enhance the system's proportionality and precisi …
NHS Trusts: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of NHS Trusts willingness and financial ability to take on new specialty medical training posts for the August 2026 recruitment round.
Israeli Settlements: Sanctions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of sanctions on companies involved in settlements in the West Bank on the medicines supply chain.
Health: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish the consultation on the introduction of mandatory reporting and health targets for large food businesses.
NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Royal Mail delivery delays on NHS service delivery, including in Stourbridge constituency.
NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS patients are not missing (a) appointments and (b) operations due to Royal Mail delivery delays (i) in the Stourbridge constituency and (ii) el …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 1eec7140084a. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Cat Eccles.
2024 general election
Cat Eccles won Stourbridge at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 15,338 votes (38.5%), a majority of 3,073 over Suzanne Webb (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Stourbridge 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.