Dr Allison Gardner MP: votes, interests and costs
Dr Allison Gardner represents Stoke-on-Trent South in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Dr Allison Gardner as a current member of these 2 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill | 21 January 2026 | Current |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] | 24 June 2025 | 3 July 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 fc12b18fa429.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Dr Allison Gardner, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 26 July 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Keele University. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Director of Women Leading in AI. 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 £141,512 for Dr Allison Gardner in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £28,594 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 | £141,512.33 |
| Office costs: spent | £28,593.63 |
| Accommodation: spent | £19,753.92 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £11,120.94 |
| 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: Stoke-on-Trent South CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent part time), Caseworker (fixed term full time), Senior Caseworker ×2 (fixed term part time), Researcher (fixed term full time), Communications Officer (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Dr Allison Gardner voted in the House of Commons: 522 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 48 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. The most recent, on 20 October 2026, was an Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
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
Dr Allison Gardner has tabled 135 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Work and Pensions; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade ; Cabinet Office.
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to improve coordination between employers and disabled people.
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking with employers to support disabled people into work.
Beef and Poultry: Brazil
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to restrict the importation of Brazilian beef and chicken.
Artificial Intelligence: Public Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Artificial Intelligence applications used across the public sector are subject to ongoing assurance, auditing and governance.
Bluetongue Virus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to improve testing capacity for blue tongue.
Farmers: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of devolution in England on equitable grant funding for English farmers in line with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Artificial Intelligence: Safety
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what measures her Department is taking to ensure the safe development and deployment of agentic AI.
Government Departments: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to implement a cross-government Artificial Intelligence Assurance strategy.
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards are in place to ensure disabled workers do not lose workplace support from Access to Work at renewal without change in (a) need and (b) circumstances.
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what accountability mechanisms are available to disabled people for Access to Work decisions.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 989df11af6ca. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Dr Allison Gardner.
2024 general election
Dr Allison Gardner won Stoke-on-Trent South at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 14,221 votes (34.7%), a majority of 627 over Jack Brereton (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Stoke-on-Trent South 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.