Sam Carling MP: votes, interests and costs
Sam Carling (Labour) is the MP for North West Cambridgeshire, elected on 4 July 2024.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Sam Carling as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee | 6 January 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill | 15 September 2025 | 28 October 2025 |
| Renters’ Rights Bill | 16 October 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 3b0471298c8b.
Register of interests
Sam Carling has 9 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 29 June 2024 and the latest on 8 September 2026. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (8), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-09-08
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-09-08
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-29
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-29
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-05-18
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-05-18
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-03-02
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-03-02
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-01-20
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-01-20
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG - £65.00
- Whether the benefit was via an All Parliamentary Group (APPG): Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of my meal at a working lunch discussing science policy
- Value of the benefit: £65.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-30
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-30
- Name of the donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
- Status of the donor: Other
Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd - £27.50
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Cost of an informal lunch for me and a member of my staff as part of a visit to discuss the work of the Burghley House Preservation Trust
- Value of the benefit: £27.50
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-09-19
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-09-19
- Name of the donor: Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd
- Status of the donor: Trust
- Details of the trust: Company Number 00951524
Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd - £561.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Two sets of tickets (one for me and one for a member of my staff) to attend a formal lunch and show jumping event at the 2025 Burghley House Trials in my constituency
- Value of the benefit: £561.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-09-07
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-09-07
- Name of the donor: Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd
- Status of the donor: Trust
- Details of the trust: Company Number 00951524
Cambridge City Councillor, (unpaid since 18 July 2024 and previously registered under Category 1)
- Date on which the interest ended: 2025-03-21
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Sam Carling's 2024-25 staffing spend as £104,003 (budget £185,538). Office costs came to £24,258 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 | £104,003.32 |
| Office costs: spent | £24,258.20 |
| Accommodation: spent | £16,045.24 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £5,916.67 |
| 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: North West Cambridgeshire CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Researcher (permanent part time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (casual), Constituency Assistant (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Sam Carling voted in the House of Commons: 553 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. 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
The Written Questions API lists 42 written questions from Sam Carling since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: House of Commons Commission; Home Office; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Department of Health and Social Care; and others.
Members' Constituency Work: ICT
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the potential impact of Parliamentary Digital Service permissions for third-party casework management systems on …
Slavery
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support alleged victims of modern slavery in the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light.
Crime and Policing Bill: Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Church of England on the application of the statutory duty to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Act 2026 to disclosures made in religious …
Roads: Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has advised Cambridgeshire County Council that it is prohibited from re-procuring a contract for highway maintenance due to planned local government reorga …
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered automatic enrolment into the Healthy Start scheme for eligible families, in the context of ensuring maximum levels of take-up.
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the Healthy Start scheme eligibility criteria to include all families on Universal Credit, in the context of recent expa …
Offences against Children: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse, introduced in the Crime and Policing Act, will come into effect.
Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to examine how AI could speed up the issuance of Remedial Service Statements to people in receipt of public sector pensions affected by the McCloud judgement.
Pensions: Inheritance Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to changes to the inheritance tax treatment of pension pots whether it is her policy that a) the total estate will be taken to include the unused pension pot, and b) donations to charity made from the …
Workplace Pensions: Lump Sum Payments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of amending the definition of a charitable lump sum death benefit so that people with dependents do not face barriers to donating to charity from their …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 665e6d60f0af. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Sam Carling.
2024 general election
Sam Carling won North West Cambridgeshire at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 14,785 votes (33.3%), a majority of 39 over Shailesh Vara (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · North West Cambridgeshire 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.