Member of Parliament
Claire Coutinho
Conservative MP for East Surrey
Shadow Minister (Equalities)·Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
At a glanceClaire Coutinho is a Conservative MP for East Surrey, and has represented the seat for 6 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Shadow Minister (Equalities). They have cast 318 votes in Commons divisions (55% attendance), tabled 147 written questions and registered 6 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Claire Coutinho did not vote in 257. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
She currently undertakes the roles of Shadow Minister (Equalities), and Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Current roles
- Shadow Minister (Equalities) Opposition post · Department for Education since 6 Nov 2024
- Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Opposition post · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero since 8 Jul 2024
- East Surrey Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 12 Dec 2019
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Bradley Thomas
Conservative
100.0% · 312 of 312 shared votes
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 304 of 304 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 304 of 304 shared votes
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Dr Andrew Murrison
Conservative
100.0% · 302 of 302 shared votes
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Greg Smith
Conservative
100.0% · 300 of 300 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 248 shared votes
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Pamela Nash
Labour
1.2% · 3 of 252 shared votes
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Gen Kitchen
Labour
1.2% · 3 of 252 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
1.2% · 2 of 163 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
1.3% · 3 of 238 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP4
- John James - £15,000.00 (registered 7 May 2026)
- Simon Camamile - £2,000.00 (registered 9 Apr 2026)
- Graham Edwards - £5,000.00 (registered 24 Mar 2026)
- IPGL Limited - £5,000.00 (registered 19 Dec 2025)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Property in London (registered 28 Sep 2020)
Miscellaneous1
- I have been involved in fundraising activities for the Friendship Project, a ringfenced fund managed by the Tandridge Community Fund. This raises money for distribution to groups working to address social isolation in East Surrey. I will be consulted but will not have a final say on how funds are distributed. (registered 3 Feb 2023)
Written questions
Medical Records: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct NHS England to implement the revisions to the Professional Records Standards Body's Core Information Standard on data items relating to sex and gender.
Answer · 8 Jul 2026
The Professional Records Standards Body's (PRSB) updates to the sex and gender data item representation for clinical use in the Core Information Standard have not yet been updated in the NHS England Standards Directory repository. Although these changes l...
Anti-Muslim Hostility
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has provided to police forces on their use of the Government's official definition of anti-Muslim hostility.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
The Home Secretary has not provided guidance to police forces on their use of the Government’s non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility. The definition is intended to support understanding and consistency in identifying hostility directed at Musl...
Energy: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will be consulting on the design of the energy bill levy framework.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The gov...
Energy: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the energy bill levy framework will be introduced.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The gov...
Energy: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce the energy bill levy framework announced in the Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
As announced at Autumn Budget 2025, the government is committed to introducing a new framework to subject levies to enhanced scrutiny and ensure they are affordable, value for money and do not impose unnecessary costs on households and businesses. The gov...
Nuclear Power: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals in the Nuclear Regulation Bill.to implement recommendations 11 and 12 of the Nuclear Regulatory Review 2025 in full.
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
We are taking forward all of the recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Review and have published our implementation plan with all reforms expected to be completed by the end of 2027. The Department is actively progressing work on the Nuclear Regulatio...
Nuclear Power: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has established a dedicated bill team within his Department to oversee the Nuclear Regulation Bill.
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
We are taking forward all of the recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Review and have published our implementation plan with all reforms expected to be completed by the end of 2027. The Department is actively progressing work on the Nuclear Regulatio...
Nuclear Power: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he intends to introduce the Nuclear Regulation Bill before the summer recess.
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
We are taking forward all of the recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Review and have published our implementation plan with all reforms expected to be completed by the end of 2027. The Department is actively progressing work on the Nuclear Regulatio...
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 National Energy System Operator: Blackout Risk
Control room operators at the National Energy System Operator have the life-or-death job of balancing our electricity supply and demand. If they do not get it right, we will have blackouts, and in blackouts, people die; it is that serious.…
15 Jul 2026 National Energy System Operator: Blackout Risk
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero if he will make a statement on allegations from whistleblowers within the National Energy System Operator regarding summer blackout risk.
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Let us look at the facts: bills went down £500 under me, but they have gone up £300 under him. The Secretary of State said that he has raked in investment, but that is because he has promised that consumers will pay sky-high prices to wind…
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
According to the press, the Secretary of State is applying for a new job, which means that he must be in need of references. Who will he ask first: the trade unions, who are calling for him to be sacked; the public, who have faced a £300 r…
7 Jul 2026 Energy Security
Last month, I asked the Secretary of State about the risk of blackouts from the increasing instability of our electricity grid, and he accused me of scaremongering. Since then, I can inform the House that I have been contacted by a whistle…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
I appreciate the hon. Member’s tone and the quality of his remarks, but does he not agree that denying that the Government are making electricity more expensive and deterring electrification—something the former Labour Prime Minister has a…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
Will the hon. Lady give way?
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
If the evidence is so science-led, will the hon. Member explain why the Climate Change Committee was out by a factor of three—300%—on the cost of offshore wind, which is one of the key inputs for the target that she will be voting for toda…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
The hon. Member is making an emotional speech, and I understand she cares deeply about this issue. This target is imposing costs on our businesses in Britain, which is driving them away from one of the cleanest energy systems in the world.…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. The question is, can we protect the environment, the economy and living standards? Is what the Government are proposing today going to help us do those things? I would argue that it is not. [Int…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
The analysis that the hon. Gentleman points to refers to TIMES modelling. That is used for the baseline. A few pages away, its says that the TIMES modelling specifically does not look at the impact of jobs on the overall energy transition.…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
I have taken interventions from so many Labour Members, and none of them could give a figure—[Interruption.] I will happily give way.
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
I will make this point. When I wrote to the Climate Change Committee asking it to look at this matter, it sent me a dismissive reply. So I wrote about it in a newspaper. What did the committee do? It reported me—a democratically elected po…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
Oh dear. So the hon. Gentleman has not read that report either, because it includes among those jobs waste, recycling and nuclear power—does he think we did not have those jobs before the net zero target? It also includes soil restoration …
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
If it is going to be about jobs, then please—go ahead.
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
Look, I have given way to a number of hon. Members, and nobody has had an answer. Let me put this to them—
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
I will come to the evidence of the Climate Change Committee in a second, but first I note that once again, a Member from the Labour Benches cannot cite an overall figure on jobs—I would have thought that the Labour party would be able to c…
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
If the hon. Gentleman would like to tell us about the impact on jobs, he is more than welcome to do so.
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
Well, the hon. Gentleman could not answer the question on jobs. If he had read it, he would know that the Government’s own impact assessment admits that the modelling does not consider any upside, or downside risks, to the economy arising …
24 Jun 2026 Climate Change
The hon. Gentleman also did not answer my question on jobs. I inherited my party’s position on net zero. I made it clear from the outset that my priority was affordability for Brits in this country, and that net zero should not impoverish …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 31 Aug 2023 – 5 Jul 2024
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) · Department for Education 27 Oct 2022 – 31 Aug 2023
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) · Department for Work and Pensions 21 Sep 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
Committee memberships
- Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] 19 Jan 2022 – 27 Jan 2022
- Local Government (Disqualification) Bill 24 Nov 2021 – 1 Dec 2021
- National Insurance Contributions Bill 16 Jun 2021 – 22 Jun 2021
Previous seats
- East Surrey · Elected 1 time 12 Dec 2019 – 30 May 2024
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Claire Coutinho, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Claire Coutinho?
Claire Coutinho is a Member of Parliament representing East Surrey in the House of Commons. See Claire Coutinho's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Claire Coutinho represent?
Claire Coutinho sits as Conservative. See Claire Coutinho's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Claire Coutinho represent?
Claire Coutinho is the Member of Parliament for East Surrey. See Claire Coutinho's official Parliament profile.
How long has Claire Coutinho been an MP?
Claire Coutinho has served in the House of Commons for 6 years, 7 months. See Claire Coutinho's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Claire Coutinho?
Claire Coutinho has 6 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Claire Coutinho's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.