Kirsteen Sullivan MP: votes, interests and costs
Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour (Co-op)) is the MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow, elected on 4 July 2024.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Kirsteen Sullivan as a current member of these 3 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission | 13 October 2026 | Current |
| Administration Committee | 28 April 2025 | Current |
| Scottish Affairs Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill | 9 June 2025 | 11 June 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 0ee44ec137ec.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Kirsteen Sullivan, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2), Shareholdings (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). Latest registration 1 August 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Shares in Yardley Programme Management Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Yardley Programme Management Limited
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: IT & Business management and consultancy service
- Held jointly or on behalf of a spouse, partner, or dependent child: Spouse
Company Director, Yardley Programme Management Limited. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Company Secretary, Yardley Programme Management Limited. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Property in Alicante province
- Location of the land or property: Alicante province
- A description of the property: House
- Details about the ownership arrangements: co-owned with family member
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: Spain
- The type of property: Residential
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 Kirsteen Sullivan's 2024-25 staffing spend as £128,860 (budget £185,538). Office costs came to £25,882 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 | £128,860.31 |
| Office costs: spent | £25,881.81 |
| Accommodation: spent | £20,093.92 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £23,695.05 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £59.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £36,491 (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, with an uplift to cover the cost of three dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Bathgate and Linlithgow CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Caseworker & Office Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Manager (permanent full time), Policy Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (casual) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Kirsteen Sullivan is recorded voting in 434 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 43 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 15 October 2026, was a No on "Highways (Financing) Bill: Second Reading: Reasoned Amendment".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 15 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Kirsteen Sullivan has tabled 66 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 for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade ; Department of Health and Social Care; Women and Equalities; and others.
Tickets: Touting
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she expects to bring forward measures to stop the for-profit resale of live event tickets.
Tickets: Touting
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the relationship between ticket fraud and activity in the secondary ticketing market.
Health Services: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of health services for women.
Candidates: Equality
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what plans she has to enact Section 106 of the Equality Act 2010.
Protective Clothing: Standards
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there has been any uptake of BS30417 standards in Government procurement specifications.
Energy: Storage
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information his Department holds on the weighting that Ofgem gives (a) social value, (b) domestic economic impact and (c) onshore manufacturing when allocating the first round of the cap …
Endometriosis: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the status of endometriosis as a possible condition for the NHS outcomes and registry programme.
Landmines: Bomb Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure that UK-funded mine action and demining programmes include (a) child-focused victim assistance, (b) access to prosthetics, (c) physica …
Sudan: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has investigated and reviewed licenses of arms components in the context of arms used by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.
Palestine: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will call for an end to the military detention of Palestinian children on the basis international juvenile justice standards.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 45a6f269f367. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Kirsteen Sullivan.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Bathgate and Linlithgow returned Kirsteen Sullivan with a majority of 8,323: 19,774 votes, 47.0% of those cast, against 11,451 for Martyn Day. Result as published: Lab gain from SNP.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Bathgate and Linlithgow figures
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