Official portrait of Sarah Coombes

Sarah Coombes

Labour MP for West Bromwich, since 4 July 2024

Assistant Whip

Scorecard

81.2% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
467 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
108 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
5 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
0 Debates spoken in 0 written questions tabled

Ranked 154 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.3%. Ministers and front-benchers vote less often than backbenchers for reasons of office rather than absenteeism, and Parliament does not publish reasons for any absence — the ranking is a starting point for a question, not an answer to one.

Voting record

575 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 49B Aye 297–168
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 43B Aye 304–68
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 32 Aye 371–98
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit: Government amendment Aye 321–102
13 May 2025 Opposition Day: UK-EU Summit No 104–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: Third Reading Aye 316–95
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 87–404
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 18 No 94–315
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 14 No 98–402
12 May 2025 Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Report Stage: New Clause 3 No 90–318
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 97–363
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No 160–294
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 No 88–287
7 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 76–295
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines Third Reading Aye 214–3
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 4 No 88–226
30 Apr 2025 Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill: Amendment 3 No 86–222
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 No 85–238
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 No 95–257
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 10 No 101–258
29 Apr 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 73–255
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Second Reading Aye 342–70
28 Apr 2025 Football Governance Bills [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No 74–337
25 Apr 2025 Closure motion No vote 12–50
25 Apr 2025 Sit in private No vote 1–73

Declared financial interests

Quoted in full from the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Entries where the largest figure is £5,000 or more are marked. A declaration is not a wrongdoing — the register exists precisely so that these things are visible.

2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

£10,000

Name of donor: Daniel Luhde-Thompson
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000 constituency campaigning
Donor status: individual
(Registered 28 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: 100 Priory Lane, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two Centre court and two ground passes to Wimbledon, value £460
Date received: 7 July 2025
Date accepted: 7 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 5 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit
Address of donor: 180 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Accommodation (£1,339.33), flights (£2,418.72) and maximum subsistence received (£ 411.5), value £4,169.58
Destination of visit: Brazil
Dates of visit: 9 November 2025 to 17 November 2025
Purpose of visit: Attendance of COP30 to meet legislators and experts and to build knowledge of the international climate process.
(Registered 8 December 2025)

On the register since 16 Dec 2025

Name of donor: Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP)
Address of donor: 1 Horse Guards Avenue, London SW1A 2HU
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£937.30), ccommodation (£649.90), food and refreshments (£270.23), value £1,857.43
Destination of visit: Jordan
Dates of visit: 20 July 2025 to 25 July 2025
Purpose of visit: Overseas visit to Jordan to see UK Development programmes ‘in-action’ and meet with development experts and partners.
(Registered 15 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

6. Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000 and where indicated, the portfolio provides a rental income of over £10,000 a year

Type of land/property: Residential property (Flat)
Number of properties: 1
Location: London
Rental income: until 15 September 2025
(Registered 1 August 2024; updated 16 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

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Debates

0 debates contributed to in total. The ten most recent:

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £4,169 in total — from the Electoral Commission's register, which is a separate register from the one above. Money given to their party is not counted here; this is money declared to them.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
9 Nov 2025 Sarah Coombes sitting MP Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit Company Visit £4,169

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Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence; donations from the Electoral Commission's register. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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