Sarah Edwards MP: votes, interests and costs
Sarah Edwards represents Tamworth in the House of Commons for Labour and has done since 19 October 2023.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Sarah Edwards as a current member of these 3 committees.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls | 5 March 2025 | Current |
| Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art | 6 February 2025 | Current |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Pension Schemes Bill | 15 July 2025 | 11 September 2025 |
| Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill | 10 January 2024 | 30 January 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 a30a401d8ecf.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Sarah Edwards, as the MP registered them: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (1). Latest registration 28 October 2025. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Edwin DeSilva - £495.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Invitation to the SME Housebuilders innovation conference with hospitality and an overnight hotel stay
- Value of the benefit: £495.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-10-02
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-10-02
- Name of the donor: Edwin DeSilva
- Status of the donor: Company
- Name of the donor company: Edwin DeSilva
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 £184,299 for Sarah Edwards in 2024-25 against a budget of £250,820. In 2023-24 it was £57,409. Office costs came to £23,848 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £184,298.73 | £57,408.76 |
| Office costs: spent | £23,847.56 | £18,288.43 |
| Accommodation: spent | £19,905.97 | £5,625.28 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £9,099.31 | £4,093.57 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £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, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Tamworth CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager ×2 (permanent full time), Administrative Officer/Comms Officer (fixed term full time), Constituency Assistant ×3 (fixed term part time), Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term full time), Caseworker (fixed term full time), Administrative Officer (fixed term full time), Constituency Assistant (fixed term full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Sarah Edwards voted in the House of Commons: 400 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 30 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
Sarah Edwards has tabled 87 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Home Office; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Department for Transport; Cabinet Office; and others.
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of (a) the appropriateness of using hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in areas that experienced violent disorder during summer 2024, and (b) the potential im …
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to end the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers in Staffordshire; and what timetable has been set for the closure of remaining asylum hotels in the county.
Asylum: Tamworth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the continued use of a hotel that has been closed to the public since 2022 to accommodate asylum seekers on the economy of Tamworth t …
Sports: Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide a list of organisations that she has met with advocating for community sports partners, such as Parkrun, to remove gender self-identification from participants; wheth …
Buses: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to support UK bus manufacturing and strengthen the domestic supply chain, in the context of increasing competition from China in the zero-emission bus market; and what assess …
Buses: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures she is taking to support small and medium sized businesses in the UK bus manufacturing supply chain.
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Government's definition of social value rewards bidders who support businesses across the supply chain and create jobs.
Private Rented Housing: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment has been made of the effectiveness for renters of the two redress schemes currently endorsed by the government.
Employment Schemes: Young People
What steps he is taking to support young people into employment, education or training.
Personal Savings: Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC is taking to ensure retirees and others with pensions and savings get clear help in avoiding mistakes with tax codes.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 68ff7c0f49ff. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Sarah Edwards.
2024 general election
Sarah Edwards won Tamworth at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 15,338 votes (35.0%), a majority of 1,382 over Eddie Hughes (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Tamworth 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.