Josh Newbury MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase is Josh Newbury (Labour).
Offices and committees
Josh Newbury sits on one committee, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | 28 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 24a69e971e64.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Josh Newbury, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 7 September 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
I am an unpaid member of the Executive of the Labour Rural Research Group (LRRG), a formally constituted group within the Labour Party focused on rural policy development and advocacy. Alongside fellow Executive members and LRRG officers, I provide strategic direction and organisation for the group.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2026-09-07
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee of Norton Canes Community Association (Norton Canes Community Centre). This is an unpaid role.
- 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)
In 2024-25 Josh Newbury's office spent £72,517 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £15,589 in the same year. 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 | £72,516.99 |
| Office costs: spent | £15,589.30 |
| Accommodation: spent | £18,259.43 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £3,048.35 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £30,433 (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, with an uplift to cover the cost of one dependant from 5 July 2024 and two dependants from 4 September 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Cannock Chase CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (fixed term full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Communication Officer (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Josh Newbury voted in the House of Commons: 530 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 56 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. On 21 October 2026 Josh Newbury voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
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
Josh Newbury has tabled 193 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade , Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Cabinet Office and 2 other departments.
Energy Intensive Industries: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to support energy intensive businesses with energy costs.
Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling producers to transfer their first right of refusal to material recovered under the deposit return scheme to a third par …
Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to raise public awareness of the deposit return scheme due to come into force in October 2027.
Deposit Return Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of lost income from recycling credits from the introduction of the deposit return scheme in October 2027 on local authority budgets …
Plastics: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase post-consumer sorting and processing capacity in the UK in the context of the time taken to introduce mandatory kerbside collection of f …
Plastics: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the context of the delay to mandatory kerbside collection of flexible plastics under Simpler Recycling, what steps her Department is taking to work with industry to stimulate end-ma …
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether she plans to standardise first aid training requirements across public sector contracts; and if she will include first aid provision within social value procurement criteria.
Green Gas Support Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the Office for Gas and Electricity Markets moving to weekly budget monitoring of the Green Gas Support Scheme, in the context of levels …
Small Businesses: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will consider introducing (a) tax relief and (b) grants for SMEs to offset the cost of staff first aid training, similar to the apprenticeship levy model.
Biomethane: UK Emissions Trading Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when the Government plans to proceed with the zero rating of biomethane on the UK ETS.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 14d2676e350f. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Josh Newbury.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Cannock Chase returned Josh Newbury with a majority of 3,125: 15,671 votes, 36.5% of those cast, against 12,546 for Amanda Milling. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Cannock Chase 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.