Kate Osborne MP: votes, interests and costs
Kate Osborne (Labour) is the MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East, in the seat since 12 December 2019.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Kate Osborne; earlier posts are below.
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Finance Committee (Commons) | 18 November 2024 | 1 December 2025 |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill | 28 February 2024 | 6 March 2024 |
| Backbench Business Committee | 27 November 2023 | 30 May 2024 |
| Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill | 16 November 2022 | 23 November 2022 |
| Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill | 2 March 2022 | 22 March 2022 |
| Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill | 8 December 2021 | 15 December 2021 |
| Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill | 24 November 2021 | 28 November 2021 |
| Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill (England and Wales) | 27 October 2021 | 3 November 2021 |
| Building Safety Bill | 9 September 2021 | 26 October 2021 |
| Education Committee | 13 July 2021 | 13 March 2023 |
| National Insurance Contributions Bill | 16 June 2021 | 22 June 2021 |
| Backbench Business Committee | 25 May 2021 | 26 October 2023 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 8fbd241659c0.
Register of interests
Kate Osborne has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 14 October 2022 and the latest on 29 July 2026. By category: Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (1), Shareholdings (1), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Geoff Thompson - £4,000.00
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: Donation to Kate Osborne Campaigns Ltd to support campaigns and awareness in the constituency
- Value of the benefit: £4,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-07-06
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-07-06
- Name of the donor: Geoff Thompson
- Status of the donor: Individual
Shares in Kate Osborne Campaigns Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Date on which the holding was acquired, or achieved registrable value: 2022-10-06
- Name of the company or partnership: Kate Osborne Campaigns Ltd
Director of Kate Osborne Campaigns Ltd. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2022-10-06
- 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 Kate Osborne's 2024-25 staffing spend as £250,820 (budget £250,820). In 2023-24 it was £236,168. Office costs came to £33,020 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 | £250,820.00 | £236,167.80 | £220,629.84 |
| Office costs: spent | £33,020.00 | £29,203.91 | £28,570.00 |
| Accommodation: spent | £33,639.87 | £31,965.95 | £28,420.48 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £27,351.59 | £22,544.79 | £20,520.55 |
| 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: Jarrow and Gateshead East BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Communication Officer (permanent full time), Member of Parliament Representative (permanent full time), Administrative Officer (fixed term part time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term full time), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (fixed term full time), Administrative Officer (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Kate Osborne is recorded voting in 377 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 42 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 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Kate Osborne has tabled 85 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Treasury; Cabinet Office; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; and others.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle violence and aggression towards Emergency Department staff.
Fuels: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of extending the fuel duty freeze on CPI inflation.
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Capita plc processes Civil Service pension cases in (a) a timely and (b) an efficient manner; and what that timeframe will be.
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the efficiency of Capita plc in processing outstanding Civil Service pension cases; and if he will provide guidance on the expected timescales within which all outstanding pension …
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June to Question 6798 on Travellers: Caravan Sites, how many new Gypsy and Traveller sites and pitches have been built since September 2024.
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the forthcoming changes to earned settlement will preserve eligibility to apply for settlement after five years under Appendix Settlement Protection for people granted five years’ permission t …
Fuels: Excise Duties
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the continued freeze in fuel duty on (a) CPI inflation and (b) the cost of living.
Credit Reference Agencies
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the length of time Credit Reference Agencies retain information on defaults; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of limiting that length of time, …
Travellers: Caravan Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department has taken to implement the recommendation issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2024 to ‘ensure the provision of ade …
Morrisons: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with Morrisons on its reported plans to close 100 Morrisons Daily stores, including the store on Edinburgh Road in Jarrow; and what assessment he has made of the potentia …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 383feccb5254. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Kate Osborne.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Jarrow and Gateshead East returned Kate Osborne with a majority of 8,964: 18,856 votes, 51.3% of those cast, against 9,892 for Lynda Alexander. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Jarrow and Gateshead East 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.