At a glanceAmanda Martin is a Labour MP for Portsmouth North, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 483 votes in Commons divisions (84% attendance), tabled 55 written questions and registered 15 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Amanda Martin did not vote in 92. 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
- General Cemetery Bill [HL] Committee since 16 Sep 2025
- Norwich Livestock Market Bill [HL] Committee since 25 Jun 2025
- Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee since 25 Jun 2025
- Court of Referees Committee since 27 Feb 2025
- Portsmouth North 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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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 473 of 473 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 464 of 464 shared votes
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Andrew Cooper
Labour
100.0% · 463 of 463 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 461 of 461 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 458 of 458 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 295 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 151 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.9% · 3 of 338 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 301 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 295 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.
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources6
- Portsmouth Community Football Club - £57.00 (registered 12 May 2026)
- Portsmouth Community Football Club - £300.00 (registered 12 May 2026)
- Portsmouth Community Football Club - £375.00 (registered 3 Dec 2025)
- HM Government of Gibraltar - £1,950.00 (registered 16 Oct 2025)
- Fix Radio Limited - £440.00 (registered 11 Sep 2025)
- Victorious Festivals Limited - £320.00 (registered 11 Sep 2025)
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Bahrain between 02 May 2025 and 05 May 2025 (registered 17 Oct 2025)
Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK2
- Paddy Power part of Flutter Entertainment plc - £1,000.00 (registered 22 Jan 2026)
- HM Government of Gibraltar - £1,708.00 (registered 11 Sep 2025)
Miscellaneous6
- Trustee of the Lucy Lund Fund, a charity for people who require rest or a holiday and who are in need of financial assistance. This is an unpaid role. (registered 17 Jul 2024)
- Platform Portsmouth Founding Member. This is an unpaid role. (registered 17 Jul 2024)
- Trustee National Education Museum. This is an unpaid role. (registered 12 Jul 2024)
- Member of Portsmouth Supporters Trust Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Jul 2024)
- Trustee of STEMunity. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Jul 2024)
- Trustee treasurer of Loaves of Love (a constituted community group). This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Universal Credit: Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants receiving the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity element have received voluntary support from Pathways to Work Advisers since their introduction in
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
Since March 2025 more than 100,000 disabled people and people with health conditions with a Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity decision have received employment support from a Pathways to Work Adviser on a voluntary basis to help them m...
Small Businesses: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to support small and medium sized businesses through reforms to public procurement.
Answer · 22 Jun 2026
The Government is determined to ensure that public procurement drives economic growth and removes barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We have introduced new powers to allow authorities to reserve lower-value contracts specifically for ...
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) document entitled Improving Trader recommendation platforms: consumer law compliance advice for businesses, published on 12 November 2024
Answer · 3 Dec 2025
The Competition and Markets Authority's decision-making is independent of government. Each parliament the government issues a Strategic Steer to the CMA setting out its priorities for the CMA and the wider policy objectives to which it should have regard....
Consumers: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to encourage enforcement action by the Competition and Markets Authority on consumer protection.
Answer · 3 Dec 2025
The Competition and Markets Authority's decision-making is independent of government. Each parliament the government issues a Strategic Steer to the CMA setting out its priorities. Earlier this year the government encouraged the CMA to use its range of to...
UK City of Culture: Community Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact the Department's UK City of Culture Competition and new UK Town of Culture competition will have on local communities.
Answer · 2 Dec 2025
The strong evidence from UK City of Culture shows that supporting local culture pays both economic and social dividends. Town of Culture is a new competition to ensure smaller places across the UK can share in the real impact by shining a spotlight on pla...
Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Parental Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to commission an independent review of the compliance of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's maternity and parental leave policies with employment law.
Answer · 25 Nov 2025
A comprehensive funded programme to modernise all Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) supporting tools and policies is already underway, in collaboration with relevant Government Departments and stakeholders. There are no plans for an independent review. The Empl...
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on ensuring that (a) Portsmouth and (b) other areas receive sufficient funding to meet national cancer waiting time targets a
Answer · 21 Nov 2025
The Government will get the NHS diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster , including in Portsmouth. We have already delivered 5.2 million more appointments nationwide - including many for cancer diagnosis and treatment, helping more patients to ac...
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of resources allocated to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's human resources function (a) to address parental policy concerns raised by trade unions (b) in genera
Answer · 21 Nov 2025
The Department keeps the allocation of resources under regular review to ensure it is able to meet its obligations. A targeted programme to develop the lived experience within the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is underway, and this is balanced against wider...
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment
Sir David Amess understood what every Member of this House should remember: our greatest privilege is representing the people and places who send us here. He never missed an opportunity to celebrate Southend, and today I want to do the sam…
16 Jul 2026 Gibraltar: UK-EU Treaty
I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Gibraltar, I warmly congratulate the Government on successfully securing this historic, landmark agree…
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
I am proud to represent Portsmouth, whose local people want their pride reflected in the name of the reorganised local council. Both Portsmouth MPs and, I believe, councils representing over 75% of residents, support including Portsmouth i…
16 Jul 2026 Business of the House
I regularly hear from people in Portsmouth who are passionate about public service and keen to make a positive difference in their community. Politics should be accessible to everyone, regardless of background. At the end of August, I wil…
16 Jul 2026 Bus Travel Affordability: Children and Young People
Last week, the all-party parliamentary group for tradespeople hosted a roundtable to discuss the barriers to young people taking up a career in the trades. Travel was raised as a particular issue. While I welcome the Government’s roll-out …
16 Jul 2026 Bus Travel Affordability: Children and Young People
10. What steps she has taken to help increase the affordability of bus travel for children and young people.
8 Jul 2026 NHS Corridor Care
I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) for her service and for securing this debate. There is no clearer sign of the failure of the NHS under the Conservatives than the fact that corridor care was allowed to becom…
8 Jul 2026 NHS Corridor Care
Does my hon. Friend agree that often this is compounded when somebody has been arrested and police officers are sitting for hours? I was recently in A&E, and there were two police officers there for the duration that a member of the pu…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
We live in an increasingly unstable world. From Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine to the conflict in the middle east, the threats to our national security have grown, and families across the country have felt the consequences through hi…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
Will the hon. Member give way?
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
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8 Jul 2026 Draft UK-EU Agreement on Gibraltar
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John, in this important debate. For more than six years, the people of Gibraltar have lived with uncertainty. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Gibraltar, I have had …
6 Jul 2026 Employment and Training
As someone who studied STEM—science, technology, engineering and maths—subjects at college, I agree with the hon. Member. We need to ensure that our young people have the maximum number of opportunities to give our country resilience, whet…
6 Jul 2026 Employment and Training
Too many of those skilled industrial jobs have disappeared and too many young people today do not see the same opportunities that previous generations had. When we talk about levies like this, we are really talking about whether today’s yo…
6 Jul 2026 Employment and Training
The levy proposals may sound technical, but at their heart they are about investing in people and in Britain’s future, because, let us be honest, everything we touch and see is supported, repaired and built by these industries. As the Labo…
6 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
T6. Two weeks ago, alongside colleagues, I met a network of families and parents from all three armed forces. I heard from serving personnel about the real strain of starting a family while serving our country. A recent snapshot survey …
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
Portsmouth coastguard rescue officers responded to 171 incidents last year, and I rise to express my admiration of them and of the coastguard rescue officers in the right hon. Member’s constituency. Does she agree with me and my constituen…
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
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1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
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30 Jun 2026 Culture, Media And Sport
If we are serious about tackling the growing challenges facing all our young people, we must recognise that youth services are not a luxury but an essential part of the solution. For too long, youth provision has been viewed as an optional…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Education Committee 21 Oct 2024 – 28 Oct 2025
- Football Governance Bill [HL] 14 May 2025 – 17 Jun 2025
- Planning and Infrastructure Bill 24 Apr 2025 – 22 May 2025
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 15 Jan 2025 – 11 Feb 2025
- Armed Forces Commissioner Bill 4 Dec 2024 – 12 Dec 2024
Elections contested
- Portsmouth North 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Amanda Martin, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Amanda Martin?
Amanda Martin is a Member of Parliament representing Portsmouth North in the House of Commons. See Amanda Martin's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Amanda Martin represent?
Amanda Martin sits as Labour. See Amanda Martin's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Amanda Martin represent?
Amanda Martin is the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North. See Amanda Martin's official Parliament profile.
How long has Amanda Martin been an MP?
Amanda Martin has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Amanda Martin's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Amanda Martin?
Amanda Martin has 15 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Amanda Martin's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 27 Jul 2026.