At a glanceLaura Kyrke-Smith is a Labour MP for Aylesbury, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 507 votes in Commons divisions (88% attendance), tabled 140 written questions and registered 5 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Laura Kyrke-Smith did not vote in 68. 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
- Health Bill Committee since 11 Jun 2026
- Representation of the People Bill Committee since 11 Mar 2026
- Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill Committee since 21 May 2025
- Aylesbury 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% · 496 of 496 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 490 of 490 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 489 of 489 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 484 of 484 shared votes
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Adam Thompson
Labour
100.0% · 483 of 483 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 143 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.3% · 1 of 290 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 350 shared votes
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 322 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 311 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 MP2
- The Coalition for Global Propserity (CGP) - £8,700.00 (registered 18 Jun 2026)
- The Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP) - £3,900.00 (registered 13 Mar 2026)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to Belgium between 03 June 2026 and 05 June 2026 (registered 23 Jun 2026)
- International visit to United States between 17 September 2025 and 21 September 2025 (registered 6 Oct 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- Director of IRC UK Trading Limited. (registered 31 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 16 September 2025 to UIN 74237 on Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding, whether she plans to report, in the forthcoming publication of the statistics of scientific proce
Answer · 6 Jul 2026
The Home Office will resume the collection and annual publication of additional statistics relating to animals used in science. The first publication is planned for 2028 and will report on data collected during 2027.The additional statistics will include:...
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when guidance on eligibility criteria and application processes for the next phase of the Better Youth Spaces Fund will be published.
Answer · 16 Jun 2026
We have been focused on how we can streamline our departmental funding to ensure young people are shaping our priorities and decisions. With this in mind, we are currently merging our major youth funds which includes Better Youth Spaces and Richer Young L...
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to prepare for the launch of applications to the next phase of the Better Youth Spaces Fund, and when those applications are expected to open.
Answer · 16 Jun 2026
We have been focused on how we can streamline our departmental funding to ensure young people are shaping our priorities and decisions. With this in mind, we are currently merging our major youth funds which includes Better Youth Spaces and Richer Young L...
Dogs: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of welfare conditions for dogs bred at establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
Answer · 4 Jun 2026
The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) provides robust protections for animals, including dogs, bred for use in scientific procedures. Establishments licensed under ASPA must comply with the Act and the Code of Practice for the Housing and Ca...
Animal Breeding: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has conducted a recent review of licensing conditions applied to commercial breeders of animals for use in scientific procedures.
Answer · 4 Jun 2026
The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) provides robust protections for animals, including dogs, bred for use in scientific procedures. Establishments licensed under ASPA must comply with the Act and the Code of Practice for the Housing and Ca...
Railways: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of variations in CCTV quality, coverage and functionality across train operating companies and rail infrastructure providers.
Answer · 4 Jun 2026
The railway is a CCTV-rich environment, with over 125,000 cameras across the network. CCTV systems are owned and managed by individual train operating companies and Network Rail, and the Department does not hold a centralised dataset on variations in qual...
Railways: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in what proportion of rail-related criminal investigations CCTV footage was requested but could not be used due to issues including image quality, equipment failure and insufficient coverage.
Answer · 12 Jun 2026
The British Transport Police made 9,986 requests to rail operators for CCTV in 2025/26 but they are unable to provide a breakdown of whether the footage was usable or not as it would require extensive manual searching of data records and could only be pro...
Apprentices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of withdrawing funding from certain Level 6 apprenticeships, such as the Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship, on employers’ ability to dev
Answer · 1 Jun 2026
Over the past decade we’ve seen apprenticeship starts by those aged 16-24, fall by 40%. At the same time, last year, the government spent 100% of its multi-billion pound apprenticeship budget. This Government wants to reverse that decline and support 50,0...
Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 State of Climate and Nature
The latest heatwaves have been really unsettling; kids have been unable to learn in schools, and care homes have been unable to keep residents cool. One of the GP practices in my constituency had to shut its waiting area because the temper…
30 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
T2. This month I was delighted to award my community champion award to Afzaal Hussain. After his best friend was stabbed and died in 2021, he set up In This Together Bucks, which has now removed more than 1,500 knives from the streets whi…
25 Jun 2026 Sudan
We have seen three years of unimaginable suffering in Sudan, with 19 million people extremely hungry, millions of children out of school, and thousands of women and girls who have been raped. The world should have been focused on stopping …
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The threats we face from hostile states are unprecedented in my lifetime, and geography is deceptive; we do not share a border with Russia or Iran, but our critical infrastructure is well within their reach, from hospital networks to trans…
22 Jun 2026 Further Education Pathways
Every time I have been to Buckinghamshire College Group in Aylesbury I have met fantastic staff who bring decades of professional experience to their roles and have a deep commitment to the young people. However, many further education col…
22 Jun 2026 Further Education Pathways
10. What steps she is taking to improve further education pathways.
18 Jun 2026 Support for Christians in Palestine
One of my constituents has written to me about Natalie Abu Dayyeh, a young Christian girl from Birzeit in the west bank who was seized at gunpoint by Israeli forces earlier this month. Her family do not know where she is being held—they do…
18 Jun 2026 Support for Christians in Palestine
7. What steps the Church of England is taking to support Christians in Palestine.
16 Jun 2026 Thames Water
We all have examples of Thames Water letting our residents down. Just last week I heard from one of my farmers, who has had Thames Water discharging raw sewage into the ditch next to his fields. It has flooded his fields and contaminated t…
16 Jun 2026 Health Bill (Second sitting)
Q I come from a county with really significant health inequalities—people in the wealthy parts of the county live 10 or 12 years longer than people in some of the more deprived parts of Aylesbury, which I represent. I would love to hear y…
16 Jun 2026 Health Bill (Second sitting)
Q To go back to the single patient record, I see huge potential—at least in my constituency, where we have real challenges with GPs and hospitals not talking to each other or sharing information. Nor do trusts and local authorities across…
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
From Hawkslade to Buckingham Park, there are parked vehicles that sit abandoned for months on our roads, causing obstruction and danger to local residents, and even attracting fly-tipping and antisocial behaviour. They are usually untaxed …
8 Jun 2026 Digital Safety: Children
I have spoken to many young people in Aylesbury and the villages about this issue. One boy told me about the content he had seen, from terrorist beheadings to sexual abuse. He said to me, “Please don’t stop us communicating with our friend…
8 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
T3. My local Jewish community does not have a dedicated building to meet and worship in. That means that they are not eligible for the Government’s expanded support for Jewish communities, which is primarily aimed at fixed places of wo…
8 Jun 2026 Indefinite Leave to Remain: Skilled Legal Migrants
Last month I joined a very generous community event at Herali, a much-loved Sri Lankan restaurant in Aylesbury, which is dependent on staff who are here on skilled worker visas. The proposed changes to ILR put many of my local residents, i…
8 Jun 2026 Indefinite Leave to Remain: Skilled Legal Migrants
4. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to indefinite leave to remain on skilled legal migrants resident in the UK.
21 May 2026 Middle East
In Lebanon, the Government’s contribution to the humanitarian response is welcome, but the response does not work when aid workers are being killed; 116 healthcare and rescue personnel have already died. The House is united in condemning t…
20 May 2026 Engagements
Q10. On a more serious note, sometimes we all have those meetings with constituents that really stick with us. For me, it was the lady who came to my surgery and told me about the character.ai chatbot that had groomed her 12-year-old so…
19 May 2026 Knife Crime Strategy
I welcome the Government’s knife crime strategy, with its ambitious goal of halving knife crime in a decade, and its recognition that serious violence is both a criminal justice issue and a social failure. I commend Thames Valley police on…
19 May 2026 Knife Crime Strategy
8. What progress he has made with Cabinet colleagues on the Government's knife crime strategy.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- International Development Committee 21 Oct 2024 – 24 Mar 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
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Who is Laura Kyrke-Smith?
Laura Kyrke-Smith is a Member of Parliament representing Aylesbury in the House of Commons. See Laura Kyrke-Smith's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Laura Kyrke-Smith represent?
Laura Kyrke-Smith sits as Labour. See Laura Kyrke-Smith's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Laura Kyrke-Smith represent?
Laura Kyrke-Smith is the Member of Parliament for Aylesbury. See Laura Kyrke-Smith's official Parliament profile.
How long has Laura Kyrke-Smith been an MP?
Laura Kyrke-Smith has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Laura Kyrke-Smith's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Laura Kyrke-Smith?
Laura Kyrke-Smith has 5 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Laura Kyrke-Smith's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.