Phil Brickell MP: votes, interests and costs
Phil Brickell represents Bolton West in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Phil Brickell as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Public Accounts Commission | 17 December 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Rare Cancers Bill | 26 June 2025 | 2 July 2025 |
| Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL] | 5 February 2025 | 11 February 2025 |
| Tobacco and Vapes Bill | 18 December 2024 | 5 January 2025 |
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 16 December 2024 | 13 April 2026 |
| Finance Committee (Commons) | 18 November 2024 | 20 January 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 1e1e7ed1b1ba.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 2 entries for Phil Brickell: Miscellaneous (1), Visits outside the UK (1). The most recent was registered on 22 December 2025. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Elected member of the Executive of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-11-26
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
International visit to Germany between 14 October 2025 and 16 October 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Participation in annual UK-German Parliamentary Dialogue organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-10-14
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-10-16
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 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 £133,257 for Phil Brickell in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £19,287 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 | £133,256.57 |
| Office costs: spent | £19,286.72 |
| Accommodation: spent | £17,479.26 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £9,902.13 |
| 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: Bolton West CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Phil Brickell voted in the House of Commons: 494 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 48 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. The most recent, on 21 October 2026, was a No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 24 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Phil Brickell has tabled 199 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Treasury; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Home Office.
Pharmacy: Opening Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of working with local Integrated Care Boards to ensure that every Local Authority area has at least one late opening pharmacy which is open past …
Respiratory Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research into pulmonary fibrosis her Department is supporting; and what steps her Department is taking to improve the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes for people living with the condition.
Technology: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of introducing an anti-fraud levy on technology sector companies.
Corruption
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the annual budget for the UK Action Against Corruption programme is for (a) 2024-25, and (b) 2025-26.
Developing Countries: Corruption
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the next 5-year business case for the UK Action to Support Developing Countries Fighting Corruption programme will be published.
Developing Countries: Corruption
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when the annual review of the UK Action to Support Developing Countries Fighting Corruption programme for the 2024/25 financial year will be published.
Fraud Investigation Service: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of the annual budget for HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service was allocated to its Proceeds of Crime division in each of the previous 5 years.
Fraud Investigation Service: Finance and Staff
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what was the annual a) budget, and b) headcount FTE for HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service for each of the years 2024/25 and 2025/26.
Money Laundering: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mutual legal assistance requests received by the UK Central Authority related to money laundering for each year from 2018 to 2025.
National Crime Agency: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) annual budget, broken down by core budget and external funding lines and (b) headcount FTE in each of the past 5 years for the National Crime Agency’s (i) National Economic Crime Comm …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 1a12edab37df. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Phil Brickell.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Bolton West returned Phil Brickell with a majority of 4,945: 17,363 votes, 38.9% of those cast, against 12,418 for Chris Green. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Bolton West 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.