Wendy Morton MP: votes, interests and costs
Wendy Morton (Conservative) is the MP for Aldridge-Brownhills, in the seat since 7 May 2015. Current post: Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), held since 6 November 2024.
Offices and committees
Current post held by Wendy Morton, as recorded by UK Parliament:
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 6 November 2024 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) | Whips Office (Commons) | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 |
| Minister of State (Department for Transport) | Department for Transport | 9 February 2022 | 6 September 2022 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) | Department for Transport | 19 December 2021 | 9 February 2022 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 2 September 2020 | 19 December 2021 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development) | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 13 February 2020 | 2 September 2020 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) | Ministry of Justice | 26 July 2019 | 13 February 2020 |
| Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) | Whips Office (Commons) | 9 January 2018 | 26 July 2019 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Backbench Business Committee | 21 October 2024 | 9 December 2024 |
| Backbench Business Committee | 27 November 2023 | 30 May 2024 |
| Speaker's Conference (2022) | 19 January 2023 | 30 May 2024 |
| Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill | 8 December 2022 | 14 December 2022 |
| Backbench Business Committee | 21 November 2022 | 26 October 2023 |
| Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill | 2 February 2022 | 9 February 2022 |
| Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill | 5 January 2022 | 5 January 2022 |
| Backbench Business Committee | 13 June 2016 | 31 October 2016 |
| Committees on Arms Export Controls | 10 February 2016 | 3 May 2017 |
| Regulatory Reform | 12 October 2015 | 3 May 2017 |
| International Development Committee | 8 July 2015 | 3 May 2017 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 f6793d087579.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 11 entries for Wendy Morton: Miscellaneous (6), Visits outside the UK (2), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1), Shareholdings (1). The most recent was registered on 12 August 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
The Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP) - £3,900.00
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: The services of a Senior Policy Adviser for 1 day per week from 5 August to 31 October 2026
- Value of the benefit: £3,900.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-08-01
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-08-05
- End date, if the benefit was received over time: 2026-10-31
- Name of the donor: The Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP)
International visit to Italy between 17 April 2026 and 19 April 2026
- Purpose of the visit: British-German Parliamentary Dialogue with CDU and CSU Members of the German Bundestag.
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-04-17
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-04-19
International visit to Gibraltar between 15 December 2025 and 16 December 2025
- Purpose of the visit: To visit the Gibraltar Government in my capacity as the Shadow Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Minister.
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-12-15
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-12-16
Political Governor of the Board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-12-16
- Date on which the interest ended: 2027-12-15
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Life Membership of the Friends of the British Overseas Territory provided by the organisation. (A one-off payment for this was provided in 2023 and was originally registered under Category 3.)
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2023-11-30
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Chairman of the United & Cecil Club. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-09-18
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member of the British-American Parliamentary Group.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-04-03
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Advisory Board Member to the Friends of the British Overseas Territories. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2023-12-14
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Vice-President of the Lotteries Council. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2023-03-01
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Commercial in North Yorkshire
- Location of the land or property: North Yorkshire
- A description of the property: small industrial units on a business park
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Owned by DM Electronics Ltd
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 2
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Commercial
Shares in DM Electronics Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: DM Electronics Ltd
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: An electronics design and manufacturing company
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Wendy Morton's 2024-25 staffing spend as £205,700 (budget £250,820). The figure for 2023-24 was £153,362. IPSA lists office spending of £18,328 in the same year. 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 | £205,699.97 | £153,361.96 | £117,739.68 |
| Office costs: spent | £18,328.29 | £15,910.36 | £9,648.80 |
| Accommodation: spent | £17,719.60 | £15,962.12 | £15,868.62 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £11,626.00 | £12,577.64 | £8,373.13 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £19,940 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property outside the London area).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Aldridge-Brownhills BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (permanent full time), Intern (fixed term part time), Constituency Support Manager (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Wendy Morton is recorded voting in 366 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 42 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. On 20 October 2026 Wendy Morton voted No on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
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
The Written Questions API lists 2,017 written questions from Wendy Morton since 4 July 2024. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade , Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Transport and 2 other departments.
Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether the Government plans to introduce binding requirements for developers of the most powerful AI models, in the context of reports concerning the availability of Anthropic’s C …
Solar Power: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that planning decisions on large-scale solar developments consider their potential effects on (a) Green Belt land, (b) Sites of Special Scienti …
Green Belt: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether assurance is required at local plan examination that infrastructure relied upon to justify Green Belt allocations is costed, funded and capable of being delivered when ne …
Housing: Walsall
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated to Walsall Council for brownfield housing development in each financial year from 2024-25 to 2028-29; and how many homes that funding is expec …
Green Belt: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions the Department has held with Walsall Council and the West Midlands Combined Authority about the brownfield-with-intervention option identified in paragraph 4.22 …
High Speed 2 Line: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many residents of (a) Aldridge-Brownhills constituency and (b) Walsall local authority area have (i) started and (ii) completed an apprenticeship connected with HS2; and how many of those completing an appr …
Youth Guarantee: Walsall
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people aged 18 to 24 in (a) Aldridge-Brownhills constituency and (b) Walsall local authority area who will be eligible for the Jobs Guarantee in ea …
School Meals: Monitoring
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects to publish the school-food monitoring framework being developed with the Food Standards Agency; whether compliance checks will be independent and findings published for individual schools; and …
School Meals: Nutrition
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the additional cost per meal of implementing the revised School Food Standards; and whether funding will be available to schools and caterers for those costs, including …
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish data on the number of Jobs Guarantee participants who (a) start a placement, (b) complete a placement and (c) enter sustained employment six and 12 months after completing a …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 e94d01671411. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Wendy Morton.
2024 general election
Wendy Morton won Aldridge-Brownhills at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 15,901 votes (38.9%), a majority of 4,294 over Luke Davies (Labour). Result as published: Con hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Aldridge-Brownhills figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Wendy Morton corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Wendy Morton:
- Wendy Morton corrected a written answer on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Stonewall
- Wendy Morton corrected a written answer on Water Supply: Finance
- Wendy Morton corrected the Commons record on Covid-19 Vaccine Access
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.