At a glanceJosh Babarinde is a Liberal Democrat MP for Eastbourne, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 403 votes in Commons divisions (70% attendance), tabled 274 written questions and registered 7 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Josh Babarinde did not vote in 172. 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
Current roles
- Liberal Democrat Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Eastbourne Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Ian Sollom
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 389 of 389 shared votes
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Sarah Green
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 360 of 360 shared votes
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Tom Gordon
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
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Caroline Voaden
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
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Olly Glover
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 351 of 351 shared votes
Votes least like
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Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
9.7% · 24 of 247 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
12.4% · 34 of 275 shared votes
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Douglas McAllister
Labour
12.7% · 46 of 361 shared votes
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Anneliese Midgley
Labour
13.1% · 41 of 313 shared votes
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Neil Coyle
Labour
13.4% · 43 of 322 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 MP6
- Andrew Little - £15,000.00 (registered 10 Apr 2026)
- Alan Morton - £20,000.00 (registered 3 Mar 2026)
- Adam Management Holdings Limited - £7,500.00 (registered 28 Oct 2025)
- Ian Wrigglesworth - £2,000.00 (registered 17 Sep 2025)
- Carl Michel - £2,000.00 (registered 17 Sep 2025)
- Carl Michel - £2,000.00 (registered 17 Sep 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- Trustee of Eastbourne's Towner Art Gallery. This is an unpaid role. (registered 16 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consideration he has given to reviewing criteria for those in receipt of Attendance Allowance to be able to access to the Motability scheme.
Answer · 21 Jul 2026
Attendance Allowance is intended to help those with a severe disability who have long term care or supervision needs which arise after reaching State Pension age. Government mobility support is focused on people who are disabled earlier in life; developin...
Adoption and Children in Care: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve services to support adopted and looked after children transitioning to adulthood.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation on the future of adoption support, the department is seeking evidence from groups including young people, adopters and carers about the support they would like to see made available, including...
Adoption and Children in Care: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent to which services supporting adopted and looked after children meet their needs.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
Through our ‘Adoption Support that Works for All’ consultation on the future of adoption support, the department is seeking evidence from groups including young people, adopters and carers about the support they would like to see made available, including...
Police: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the needs of people with autism are understood and accommodated by police forces.
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
The College of Policing set the professional standards for police in England and Wales. The College’s core guidance includes the initial training for officers under the Policing Education Qualifications Framework which incorporates autism, learning disabi...
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training is provided to Jobcentre staff on supporting claimants with hidden disabilities.
Answer · 26 Jun 2026
DWP recognises the importance of providing learning to enable all Jobcentre staff in customer contact roles to meet the needs of all our claimants, including those with hidden disabilities. Jobcentre staff receive role specific learning, which: provides a...
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements are in place to ensure that claimants who have previously received support from a Disability Employment Advisor are known to all staff interacted with.
Answer · 6 Jul 2026
To ensure customers with complex barriers receive the right support from Jobcentres, our Disability Employment Advisers offer direct support (1-2-1) to customers on top of the help provided by their work coach or Pathways to Work Adviser. Using their know...
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what procedures are in place to ensure that claimants are immediately informed of their right to challenge a sanction and seek accessible support.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
Claimants are clearly informed of their rights when a sanction decision is made. All sanction decision letters include details of what to do if a claimant disagrees with the decision, including how to seek a review and access support.When a claimant is no...
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department will require Jobcentres to provide claimants and their representatives with named representative for their designated contact officer.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
When a claimant is allocated to a Work Coach or Case Manager they are currently provided with a named point of contact.
Early day motions
| 15 Jul 2026 | Retirement of Godfrey Asare and Margaret Labulo from the Members' Tea Room | 28 sig. |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Endometriosis Awareness Month 2026 | 35 sig. |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Covid Day of Reflection 2026 | 37 sig. |
| 7 Jan 2026 | Homelessness support in Eastbourne | 10 sig. |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Blue Badge wait times | 11 sig. |
| 12 May 2025 | Eastbourne Spring Water Festival 2025 | 7 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Seventeen-year-old Oakley Meer lost his life in a collision on Beachy Head Road in Eastbourne. Will the Minister meet me and Oakley’s family to discuss how we can improve road safety on that treacherous road?
9 Jul 2026 Waste Crime Action Plan
Fly-tippers tend to vanish just as the mess gets traced back to them—much like Nigel Farage earlier this week. Closer to home, I led a community walkabout with the Friends of Outer Devonshire, alongside residents such as Emma Boyes and Kay…
6 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Civil compensation is disregarded from pension credit entitlement calculations, but military compensation is not. I know that the new Minister for Veterans is sympathetic to addressing this injustice, so I wonder whether he would meet me a…
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) for securing this debate. Beachy Head in my constituency is, regrettably, one of the most visited suicide spots in the world. Every year, brave coastguards suc…
30 Jun 2026 Support for Victims of Abuse
Disgracefully, there are some in this House who believe that it is for the England football team to prevent domestic abuse, whereas we all know that it is for perpetrators to stop their abuse. As for those making more positive and valuable…
17 Jun 2026 Engagements
Q12. As an Eastbourne boy born and bred, I can tell the Deputy Prime Minister that Eastbourne pier is an iconic part of our heritage, an iconic part of our local economy, and an iconic part of me; I literally have it tattooed on me, and…
17 Jun 2026 Abuse of Customer-facing Workers
Domestic abuse survivors who work in retail roles are at particular risk in that their perpetrators often know exactly where they are, which till they might be working at and what their shift patterns are. The perpetrators can continue to …
15 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I am leading the campaign to have Eastbourne pier registered as an asset of community value in order to safeguard its future. Will the Government back the campaign to ensure that Eastbourne pier continues to stand strong?
11 Jun 2026 Road Safety
Residents of Park Avenue in Eastbourne like David Tomlinson and Cat Harris have been campaigning with the headteacher of Ratton school, Gavin Peevers, and folks in my team like Euan Morrison to make their road safer after cats have been st…
9 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
Following power outages at Eastbourne district general hospital that left operations and birth services suspended, hospital bosses submitted a strategic bid for more than £10 million to the estates safety fund to urgently fix the problem, …
9 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
4 Jun 2026 Home-to-School Transport
I completely agree. My little brother is autistic so, as a family, we see up close how important consistency is and how disrupting the consistency of a particular service can be hugely disruptive to the flow of his life. The same goes for …
4 Jun 2026 Home-to-School Transport
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Tom Gordon) on securing the debate. Members will be pleased to know that my speech will be under six minutes, so we will have brought that time back. I want to sp…
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill
I speak in support of amendment 88, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire). It would require the Secretary of State to review the way that former service personnel are communicated with about their pension …
1 Jun 2026 Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
I pay tribute to Bourne Out LGBT and Bourne This Way in Eastbourne, which do great work to advance the rights of LGBT folks locally. I also pay tribute to LGBT+ Lib Dems and Liberal Democrat Women, which do great work within my party to ad…
1 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
I was staggered to find in the 1,500 pages published today that the victims and survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes are not referred to in any of the documents dated before Peter Mandelson’s appointment. The only reference to Epstein’s v…
1 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Day
This Armed Forces Day will mark the first that Eastbourne commemorates without Staff Sergeant Pauline Cole, a local veteran who died last year. Pauline received military compensation for injuries she received during her service, but she ha…
21 May 2026 Business of the House
Hon. Members will remember the harrowing images of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, who was found lying dead on a beach in Turkey after drowning when the boat that he and his family were on sunk. A Reform candidate at the 7 May elections, in des…
20 May 2026 Digital Inclusion
NHS Sussex found that Eastbourne, despite being the sunniest town in the UK, is one of the most digitally excluded patches of Sussex. Great organisations, such as TechResort, run by Liz Crew and Will Callaghan, help bridge the digital divi…
20 May 2026 Digital Inclusion
3. What steps she is taking to support grassroot organisations working to improve digital inclusion.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) · Opposition Department 18 Sep 2024 – 1 Oct 2025
Committee memberships
- Justice Committee 28 Oct 2024 – 13 Nov 2025
Elections contested
- Bethnal Green and Bow 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
Constituency office
100 Seaside Road, Eastbourne, BN21 2PF
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Josh Babarinde, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Josh Babarinde?
Josh Babarinde is a Member of Parliament representing Eastbourne in the House of Commons. See Josh Babarinde's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Josh Babarinde represent?
Josh Babarinde sits as Liberal Democrat. See Josh Babarinde's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Josh Babarinde represent?
Josh Babarinde is the Member of Parliament for Eastbourne. See Josh Babarinde's official Parliament profile.
How long has Josh Babarinde been an MP?
Josh Babarinde has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Josh Babarinde's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Josh Babarinde?
Josh Babarinde has 7 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Josh Babarinde's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 27 Jul 2026.