At a glanceDr Kieran Mullan is a Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, and has represented the seat for 6 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Shadow Minister (Justice). They have cast 437 votes in Commons divisions (76% attendance), tabled 440 written questions and registered 1 financial interest.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Dr Kieran Mullan did not vote in 138. 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
He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Minister (Justice).
Current roles
- Courts and Tribunals Bill Committee since 18 Mar 2026
- Shadow Minister (Justice) Opposition post · Ministry of Justice since 6 Nov 2024
- Bexhill and Battle 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% · 425 of 425 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 419 of 419 shared votes
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 416 of 416 shared votes
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Dr Andrew Murrison
Conservative
100.0% · 414 of 414 shared votes
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Greg Smith
Conservative
100.0% · 411 of 411 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.6% · 2 of 353 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
0.8% · 3 of 386 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
0.9% · 3 of 338 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 234 shared votes
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
1.0% · 4 of 386 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.
Miscellaneous1
- Trustee of ValueYou, a volunteer recognition scheme. (registered 9 Jan 2020)
Written questions
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders will be released (a) on 2 September 2026 and (b) at each of the following monthly release points under the Sentencing Act 2026 by offence including rape, child grooming, sexual assault, manslau
Awaiting an answer from the Ministry of Justice.
Asylum: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help enforce no alcohol policies at asylum accommodation sites.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
Asylum support is for essential living needs and nothing more.There is a strict no alcohol policy within accommodation sites where residents are required to comply with site rules.Upon arrival asylum seekers are given an induction setting out acceptable a...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders (broken down by type of offence) will be released at each of the scheduled early releases as part of the earned progression model as laid out by The Sentencing Act 2026 (Commencement No. 4) Reg
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
This Government inherited a prisons system days from collapse. We had no choice but to take decisive action to stop our prisons overflowing and keep the public safe. Our landmark Sentencing Act 2026 will now deliver a more sustainable solution to the pris...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many victims have been sent letters advising them their perpetrator may be released from prison early as a result of the Sentencing Act 2026.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
This Government inherited a prison system on the brink of collapse, and we are fixing this crisis. Through the introduction of the landmark Sentencing Act, we are ensuring that courts retain the ability to impose custodial sentences on serious and dangero...
Asylum: Crowborough Training Camp
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of using Crowborough Training Camp to accommodate asylum seekers.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
All large sites used for asylum accommodation are part of the Asylum Accommodation Programme which is part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and, as such, are required to publish Accounting Officer Advice summaries on GOV.UK, with the most...
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reduce delays in Ofsted registration for new children’s homes.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
There has been a sustained and unprecedented rise in applications to register children’s homes, particularly in certain areas of the country such as the North West.In September 2025, in response to this rise Ofsted published their revised policy for prior...
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average waiting time was for Ofsted registration of new children’s homes in each region in England in the last five years.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
There has been a sustained and unprecedented rise in applications to register children’s homes, particularly in certain areas of the country such as the North West.In September 2025, in response to this rise Ofsted published their revised policy for prior...
Prisoners
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners in custody serving standard determinate sentences, both in total, and broken down by offence, on the latest date on which the data is available.
Answer · 1 Jun 2026
Data on prisoners serving determinate and indeterminate sentences are published regularly in the Offender Management Statistics Quarterly, which includes information on offenders by main custody type and offence group: https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
As I have said, this could have been a Bill that we supported without reservation, but I am afraid that we maintain reservations about it, entirely as a result of its mismanagement by the Prime Minister. I want to conclude by saying tha…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
If the Government were so concerned about this Bill passing, they should have organised it. We have just listened to a raft of amendments to the Bill being nodded through in this House, with absolutely no scrutiny. [Interruption.]
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
A Government who have, inadvertently, repeatedly misled us on this Bill now want us to take them on trust. I heard personally and directly from Ministers and officials repeatedly that independent safeguards were needed, and now, apparently…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
I thank the right hon. Lady for raising that point. It was on that basis that I sought sincerely to engage properly with the Bill, and the Ministers and officials who met me repeatedly would be able to attest to that. That cannot be sustai…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
If the Prime Minister wanted to truly live up to that promise, he would not have introduced legislation with less than 24 hours’ notice on an issue of national security. As the House has alluded to, I would have wanted the opportunity to m…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
I would challenge any MP, no matter how supportive of this legislation—which has such far-reaching consequences for the operation of the Government—to say that its progress, particularly over the last 24 hours, is anything like careful and…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
No. I would challenge any MP— [Interruption.] Not yet, not yet. No matter how supportive of this legislation, with far-reaching—[Hon. Members: “Give way!”] No, I will finish this moment. With far-reaching consequences—[Interruption.]
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
Let me begin, as I have throughout the passage of this Bill, by placing at the forefront my admiration for the campaigners—the families and friends of the 97 who lost their lives in the Hillsborough tragedy. On 15 April 1989 their lives we…
14 Jul 2026 Coastal Communities: Isolation and Hidden Deprivation
That is fantastic rhetoric, but the reality of the funding formula is that it does exactly that—it creates hierarchies, inefficiencies and unfairness in the funding. Given that so many Members have raised it in the debate, will the Ministe…
14 Jul 2026 Coastal Communities: Isolation and Hidden Deprivation
I thank the hon. Member for Isle of Wight West (Richard Quigley) for throwing the spotlight on the challenges that many of our communities face. More than 20% of Bexhill’s neighbourhoods are among the most deprived in England. Many of t…
13 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I want to begin by thanking Madam Deputy Speaker, my hon. Friend the Member for Sussex Weald (Ms Ghani), for securing a meeting with the Minister, local MPs, councillors and residents of Crowborough, where the Minister heard for himself re…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I do not know whether hon. Members know this, but just for the record, we took more people than we sent back under the Dublin agreement. It did not act as any deterrent, because a person was more likely to get to the UK on the basis of the…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
But we do not deport all rapists and paedophiles, because some of them make successful ECHR claims and get to stay in the country. Again, unless the Government are willing to tackle that, they will not get to do the things that the Ministe…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
Does the Minister really think that Canada or Australia do not get to deport people? Those countries are not in the ECHR, but they have deportation agreements with third countries, so in no way is it a necessity to be in the ECHR to have d…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
Let us say that in a year from now, all this stuff has not worked and the Home Secretary has committed to doing whatever it takes. Does “whatever it takes” include withdrawing from the ECHR?
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I thank Members for their contributions and the more than 700,000 people who signed the petition, including more than 1,000 in my constituency of Bexhill and Battle. This is a…
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
I have tried to have a fair hand with the victims who attended Parliament today. I invited every Member to meet them, and I facilitated meetings with Labour and Liberal Democrat Members. So what I say now is universal. One of the aspects o…
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
Will she give way on that point?
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
Will the Minister give way?
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
I have a really easy question. The Minister is talking about grooming gang perpetrators and the like. How many of them will be released as a result of this policy? How many spaces are they taking up that you need to free up?
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Transport) · Department for Transport 19 Jul 2024 – 6 Nov 2024
Committee memberships
- Public Office (Accountability) Bill 12 Nov 2025 – 4 Dec 2025
- Victims and Courts Bill 17 Jun 2025 – 24 Jun 2025
- Justice Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill 1 May 2024 – 7 May 2024
- Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL] 28 Feb 2024 – 7 Mar 2024
- Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL] 11 Jan 2023 – 17 Jan 2023
- Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill 6 Dec 2022 – 7 Dec 2022
- Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill 10 Oct 2022 – 18 Oct 2022
- Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] 19 Jan 2022 – 27 Jan 2022
- Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill 8 Dec 2021 – 15 Dec 2021
- Procedure Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 9 Mar 2020
Previous seats
- Crewe and Nantwich · Elected 1 time 12 Dec 2019 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Wolverhampton South East 8 Jun 2017
- Birmingham, Hodge Hill 7 May 2015
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 5260
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
29-31 Sea Road, Bexhill on Sea, TN40 1EE
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Dr Kieran Mullan, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Dr Kieran Mullan?
Dr Kieran Mullan is a Member of Parliament representing Bexhill and Battle in the House of Commons. See Dr Kieran Mullan's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Dr Kieran Mullan represent?
Dr Kieran Mullan sits as Conservative. See Dr Kieran Mullan's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Dr Kieran Mullan represent?
Dr Kieran Mullan is the Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle. See Dr Kieran Mullan's official Parliament profile.
How long has Dr Kieran Mullan been an MP?
Dr Kieran Mullan has served in the House of Commons for 6 years, 7 months. See Dr Kieran Mullan's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Dr Kieran Mullan?
Dr Kieran Mullan has 1 entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Dr Kieran Mullan's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.