Melanie Onn MP: votes, interests and costs
Melanie Onn represents Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
Melanie Onn sits on 2 committees, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Immigration and Asylum Bill | 9 September 2026 | Current |
| Energy Security and Net Zero Committee | 17 March 2025 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Housing) | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 9 January 2018 | 27 March 2019 |
| Shadow Minister (Housing) | Department for Communities and Local Government | 3 July 2017 | 9 January 2018 |
| Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons | Office of the Leader of the House of Commons | 18 September 2015 | 27 June 2016 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Football Governance Bill [HL] | 14 May 2025 | 17 June 2025 |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 5 March 2025 | 20 March 2025 |
| Crown Estate Bill [HL] | 29 January 2025 | 6 February 2025 |
| Committee on Standards | 28 October 2024 | 24 March 2025 |
| Committee of Privileges | 28 October 2024 | 24 March 2025 |
| Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) | 6 November 2017 | 6 November 2019 |
| Procedure Committee | 11 September 2017 | 6 November 2019 |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 31 October 2016 | 3 May 2017 |
| Procedure Committee | 31 October 2016 | 3 May 2017 |
| Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) | 9 November 2015 | 3 May 2017 |
| Energy and Climate Change Committee | 8 July 2015 | 26 October 2015 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 b0175b4c1b61.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 6 entries for Melanie Onn: Miscellaneous (6). The most recent was registered on 18 March 2025. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Co-Chair for 'Pathways to Net Zero' and project bringing together energy businesses and parliamentarians to discuss energy related policy. Sponsoring meetings, lunches, dinners & receptions in House of Commons/Westminster. Supported by Palace Yard communications.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-01-30
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Executive Committee member of the British American Parliamentary Group. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-12-17
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee of Youth Charity, Shalom based in the East Marsh of Grimsby. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2020-02-01
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Co-Chair of the Commission for Carbon Competitiveness (a small group of MPs, former MPs and industry experts researching and producing reports on industrial competitiveness). Hanover Communications is appointed by the Commission to provide Secretariat duties, but Commissioners are not part of a formal contractual arrangement and do not appoint Hanover.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-10-14
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Elected parliamentary representative on Labour Party National Executive Committee,
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-09-01
- The type of interest: Formal role with a party organisation
Director of Grimsby Community Energy (cooperative model, principal aims to increase take up of community ownership of electricity generation, increase renewable sources of energy, deliver community benefit through lower bills and grants for sustainable or environmentally positive community projects). This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2022-10-30
- 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)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £156,628 for Melanie Onn in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. IPSA lists office spending of £18,926 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 | £156,627.70 |
| Office costs: spent | £18,926.40 |
| Accommodation: spent | £14,797.19 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £10,864.42 |
| 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: Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Senior Researcher (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Intern (fixed term full time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Melanie Onn voted in the House of Commons: 467 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 53 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 Melanie Onn 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
Since 4 July 2024, 202 written questions have been tabled by Melanie Onn, the parliamentary record shows. The latest 10 were addressed to Home Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Education and 3 other departments.
Emergencies: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential use of geographically targeted Emergency Alerts to assist police in cases involving missing children and vulnerable adults who are considered to be at imm …
Freeports
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has considered establishing a formal review mechanism for Freeport tax sites that have not delivered the (a) investment and (b) employment outcomes anticipated.
Freeports
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department can amend the boundaries of an existing Freeport tax site through secondary legislation.
Sign Language: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing opportunities for pupils to learn British Sign Language as part of the school curriculum.
Parcels: Delivery Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the level of reliability of private parcel delivery and courier services on small and medium sized businesses.
Parcels: Delivery Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of protections available to small businesses when seeking compensation from private parcel delivery and courier companies for lost, dama …
Television: Digital Broadcasting
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact on digitally excluded and vulnerable households of withdrawals of digital terrestrial television services.
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will bring forwards the consultation on the retail licensing scheme under the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 to 2026.
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration she has given to the potential merits of including a pre-licensing integrity assessment within the forthcoming tobacco, vaping and nicotine licensing scheme, akin to the model un …
Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ringfencing revenue raised from the retail licensing scheme to fund Trading Standards enforcement against illicit high street retailers.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 0a67d5bacb8a. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Melanie Onn.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes returned Melanie Onn with a majority of 4,803: 15,336 votes, 41.9% of those cast, against 10,533 for Oliver Freeston. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes 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.