Damien Egan MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Bristol North East is Damien Egan (Labour), MP there since 15 February 2024.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Damien Egan as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Work and Pensions Committee | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Pension Schemes Bill | 15 July 2025 | 11 September 2025 |
| Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] | 24 June 2025 | 3 July 2025 |
| Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill | 12 February 2025 | 18 March 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 84d8b8cbc6c3.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Damien Egan, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (1). Latest registration 4 March 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Trustee of the Jewish Museum London. 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)
In 2024-25 Damien Egan's office spent £189,392 on staff, from a staffing budget of £250,820, according to IPSA. In 2023-24 it was £12,162. Office costs came to £16,965 of a £39,020 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £189,391.96 | £12,162.06 |
| Office costs: spent | £16,964.66 | £174.21 |
| Accommodation: spent | £19,940.00 | £0.00 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £6,855.33 | £0.00 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £39,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £19,940 (Standard non-London area budget, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property outside the London area).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Bristol North East BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Administrative Manager (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Manager (fixed term part time), Intern (fixed term full time), Senior Researcher (fixed term part time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Damien Egan is recorded voting in 455 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 46 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 an Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 27 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Since 4 July 2024, 160 written questions have been tabled by Damien Egan, the parliamentary record shows. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Education; Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health and Social Care.
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will revise the funding formula for schools in England to better reflect educational disadvantages among young people from white working-class backgrounds.
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress the Government has made toward reaching the target of 10,000 new foster care places by the end of the Parliament.
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government is taking steps to expand access to apprenticeships specifically among young people from white working-class backgrounds.
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what alternatives to the current formula for calculating interest rates for Plan 2 student loans are under consideration by her Department.
Dental Health: Bristol
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for preventive dental health programmes in Bristol.
Dental Services: South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of dental workforce shortages on the provision of NHS dental services in the South West; and what steps she is taking to recruit and retain NHS …
Dental Services: Bristol
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of availability of NHS dental appointments in Bristol; and what steps her Department is taking to increase access to NHS dentistry for new adult and chi …
Special Educational Needs: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department maintains records of local authorities that have received multiple Ombudsman findings relating to failures in the delivery of Education, Health and Care Plans, SEND assessments or statuto …
Special Educational Needs: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what enforcement powers are available to her Department where a local authority is repeatedly found by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to have failed in its statutory duties towards children and …
Special Educational Needs: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the number and proportion of complaints relating to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) that are escalated to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsm …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 7eb35f798753. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Damien Egan.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Bristol North East returned Damien Egan with a majority of 11,167: 19,004 votes, 45.3% of those cast, against 7,837 for Lorraine Francis. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Bristol North East figures
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