Mary Kelly Foy MP: votes, interests and costs
Mary Kelly Foy represents City of Durham in the House of Commons for Labour and has done since 12 December 2019.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Mary Kelly Foy as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Procedure Committee | 4 November 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Tobacco and Vapes Bill | 18 December 2024 | 30 January 2025 |
| Tobacco and Vapes Bill | 24 April 2024 | 14 May 2024 |
| Bishop's Stortford Cemetery Bill | 10 January 2024 | 30 May 2024 |
| Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill | 7 June 2023 | 11 July 2023 |
| Health and Care Bill | 7 September 2021 | 2 November 2021 |
| Northern Ireland Affairs Committee | 8 June 2020 | 30 May 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 3b45b02cc512.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests API returned no entries for Mary Kelly Foy when read on 27 October 2026.
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 £221,610 for Mary Kelly Foy in 2024-25 against a budget of £250,820. In 2023-24 it was £231,509. Office costs came to £25,281 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 | £221,609.72 | £231,508.81 | £192,374.77 |
| Office costs: spent | £25,281.16 | £24,962.48 | £24,505.14 |
| Accommodation: spent | £26,308.48 | £20,434.58 | £25,080.00 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £13,481.18 | £7,546.13 | £9,137.94 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £29,290 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: City of Durham CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Constituency Support Manager (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term full time), Caseworker (fixed term full time), Intern (fixed term full time), Caseworker (fixed term part time), Constituency Assistant (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Mary Kelly Foy is recorded voting in 450 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 29 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 27 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
The Written Questions API lists 221 written questions from Mary Kelly Foy since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Ministry of Justice; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Education; and others.
Music Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the role of music therapy in community mental health support.
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of regional variation in the (a) frequency and (b) quality of dementia care plan reviews; and what steps she is taking to reduce varia …
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of arrangements for the ongoing monitoring of people with dementia who have been discharged from specialist memory and older people’s mental …
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to integrated care boards and NHS trusts on the frequency of planned reviews for people diagnosed with dementia following discharge from specialist memory and …
Prisons: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with relevant stakeholders on moving the departmental responsibility for the provision of education within prisons from the Ministry of Justice to the Department for Educatio …
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she can confirm if the forthcoming consultation on phasing out farrowing crates will be based on a transition to free farrowing systems rather than permitting the use of contin …
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to publish the consultation on phasing out the use of fallow farming crates.
Schools: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on the timeframe for consulting on changes to home to school transport provision and the implementation of any proposed changes.
Department for Work and Pensions: Women against State Pension Inequality
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Department has considered participating in Alternative Dispute Resolution or mediation in relation to the ongoing legal proceedings associated with the WASPI campaign.
State Retirement Pensions: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the comparative cost to the public purse of compensating women affected by maladministration in State Pension Age communications.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 294c7017b883. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Mary Kelly Foy.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election City of Durham returned Mary Kelly Foy with a majority of 11,757: 19,131 votes, 47.1% of those cast, against 7,374 for Mark Belch. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · City of Durham 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.