At a glanceIrene Campbell is a Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 439 votes in Commons divisions (76% attendance), tabled 37 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Irene Campbell did not vote in 136. 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
- Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee since 9 Jun 2025
- Finance Committee (Commons) Committee since 18 Nov 2024
- Petitions Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- North Ayrshire and Arran Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Steve Witherden
Labour
100.0% · 363 of 363 shared votes
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Clive Efford
Labour
100.0% · 340 of 340 shared votes
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Chris Bloore
Labour
100.0% · 329 of 329 shared votes
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Peter Dowd
Labour
100.0% · 322 of 322 shared votes
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Tracy Gilbert
Labour
99.7% · 361 of 362 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 268 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
1.1% · 3 of 267 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
1.3% · 4 of 307 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
1.4% · 4 of 283 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.4% · 3 of 222 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.
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Netherlands between 18 January 2026 and 19 January 2026 (registered 4 Feb 2026)
Miscellaneous1
- Chair of Splash Group. This is an unpaid role. (registered 2 Aug 2024)
Written questions
Livestock: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment's identification of risks to livestock from multiple climate hazards as a priority risk area, what steps her Department is
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Government has a protocol to monitor animal welfare during high-risk weather periods and ensure keepers take steps to mitigate risks. The Food Standards Agency shares data with Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency for welfare issues originatin...
Livestock: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the number of farmed animals that have required veterinary attention and/or died on-farm or in transport as a result of heat stress or other extreme w
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
The Government does not hold data on the number of farmed animals that have required veterinary attention and/or died on-farm due to heat stress.Data from 2022 indicates that, in July and August 2022 when there was unprecedented hot weather in the UK, app...
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the commercial viability of 'day-zero' systems where genetically edited breeding hens ensure only female layer chicks hatch, eliminatin
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
As stated in the recently published Animal Welfare Strategy Defra will encourage industry to end the practice of culling male laying hen chicks. In recent years there has been rapid global progress in a range of technologies that could help end the routin...
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the level of public funding allocated to (a) animal-based research and (b) non-animal New Approach Methodologies in the last five
Answer · 27 May 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) invests to support research which can lead to alternatives, such as organ-on-a-chip, cell-based assays, functional genomics and computer modelling. These are categorised as basic research, so calculating funding for New A...
Pigs: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce the prevalence of tail docking on pigs.
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
The Department has recently engaged with the Pig Veterinary Society and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to reduce the prevalence of pig tail docking by working with the industry and the veterinary profession. Defra is now carefully considering th...
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has considered whether the relationship between the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) and Understanding Animal Res
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
The NC3Rs does not sponsor UAR activities beyond being a signatory and participant in the UK Concordat on Openness on Animal Research which is managed by UAR. The NC3Rs works with a range of relevant stakeholders across the life sciences sector, including...
Government Departments: Animal Welfare
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ensuring that the Treasury Green Book takes account of the statutory duty introduced by the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 in the appraisal of policies ac
Answer · 3 Mar 2026
HM Treasury published an updated version of the Green Book on 5th February, which acknowledges the statutory role of the ASC and includes language in paragraph 8.84 noting that appraisals should consider the effects of a proposal on the welfare of animals...
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure cross-government coordination and policy alignment with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s strategy to support the developm
Answer · 27 Feb 2026
Defra is working together with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in relation to those priorities, targets and commitments in DSIT’s Strategy to Support the Development, Validation and Uptake of Alternative Methods whose implemen...
Early day motions
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Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 New Nuclear Energy Projects
New nuclear in areas such as my constituency of North Ayrshire and Arran could bring much-needed skilled jobs and investment to the area, but yet again Scotland is losing out. Does the Secretary of State agree with me that the Scottish Gov…
15 Jul 2026 New Nuclear Energy Projects
6. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of new nuclear energy projects on economic growth in Scotland.
8 Jul 2026 NHS Corridor Care
I would just like to highlight that the Scottish Government do not record or publish any statistics on the number of patients being treated in corridors. However, we know that it happens. The Crosshouse hospital, which serves my constitue…
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. I thank the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) for opening this debate and for bringing attention to this important matter. I will keep this brief, as most…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
It has been a privilege to open and close such an important debate. We have heard from many Members and the Minister about how important early diagnosis and treatment are for breast cancer, and how key it is that we tackle this issue quick…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
I agree, and I look forward to hearing the Minister talk about how we can take this forward. The UK National Screening Committee is still concerned about false positives, overdiagnosis and over-treatment. In 2012, Sir Michael Marmot cha…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
I fully agree with my hon. Friend. Unfortunately, that is not just the case for breast screening; bowel cancer screening is lower in areas of economic and health deprivation. We must look at how we target those populations. It is key th…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
Screening is key, and we have to be bolder and more inventive about how we get people along to screening. There have been many public health campaigns over the years. After a campaign, there is always a rise in attendance, but when the cam…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I, too, look forward to hearing the Minister’s response on that issue. Some 1.94 million women between the ages of 50 and 70 were screened in 2024-25, and almost 20,000 cancers were detected…
29 Jun 2026 NHS Breast Screening
I beg to move, That this House has considered e-petition 742179 relating to NHS breast screening. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Vickers. I would like to start by thanking the petitioner, Gemma Reeves, for all …
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart. I thank the Minister for his response, although I am sure he is not surprised that I disagree with quite a bit of it. I hope the responsible Minister will consider implementing …
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I thank my hon. Friend for his comments, and I agree with every point that has been raised. On a positive note, it is most welcome that this Labour Government have published the “Replacing animals in science” strategy—something that we …
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. We have the potential to lead the way in this field; that is something we should definitely be striving towards. Through my role as chair of the APPG on phasing out animal experiments in medical rese…
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
The hon. Member raises an important point; that is not an area that I had considered before, but I absolutely agree. Any of us in this Chamber could go on an afternoon course and tomorrow be injecting people with botox, so his point is val…
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I agree with everything my hon. Friend said. I will speak about some of this later on, but I have on occasion met the relevant Minister and we are due to have a meeting soon. At one meeting, I asked specifically that we remove dogs immedia…
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I agree with everything my hon. Friend said, and I will say more about that.
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I agree wholeheartedly with everything the hon. Member said. I will speak more about organ on a chip and the need to move more quickly towards phasing out animals in research, but there is an opportunity to phase out dogs almost immediate…
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I fully agree with everything the hon. Member said. I will go on to say more about that. The petition refers specifically to dogs, as well as other animals that are used in testing. In 2024, 2.64 million procedures in British laboratori…
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I thank the hon. Member for his comments, and I agree with everything that he said. I will say a bit more about that later on.
27 Apr 2026 Animal Testing
I fully agree. I think it is really important that younger people take this cause forward. Earlier today, when I went out to speak to representatives from Camp Beagle, I met a young woman—she is 10—who is really keen that we get it moved f…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill 13 May 2025 – 14 May 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
01294 493839
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
16 Green Street, Saltcoats, KA21 5HQ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Irene Campbell, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Irene Campbell?
Irene Campbell is a Member of Parliament representing North Ayrshire and Arran in the House of Commons. See Irene Campbell's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Irene Campbell represent?
Irene Campbell sits as Labour. See Irene Campbell's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Irene Campbell represent?
Irene Campbell is the Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran. See Irene Campbell's official Parliament profile.
How long has Irene Campbell been an MP?
Irene Campbell has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Irene Campbell's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Irene Campbell?
Irene Campbell has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Irene Campbell's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.