Rt Hon Dame Karen Bradley, MP for Staffordshire Moorlands
Karen Bradley has been an MP since 2010. Currently: Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees; Liaison Committee (Commons); National Security Strategy (Joint Committee).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Office) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2017 to 2018 | |
| Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2014 to 2016 | |
| Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2013 to 2014 | |
| Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2012 to 2013 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Liaison Sub-Committee on Core Tasks of Select Committees | 2026 to now | Now |
| Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill | 2025 | |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2024 to now | Now |
| National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
| British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill | 2024 | |
| Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill (Formerly known as Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill) | 2024 | |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill | 2024 |
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| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill | 2023 | |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Procedure Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Administration Committee | 2012 to 2014 | |
| Procedure Committee | 2011 to 2012 | |
| Work and Pensions Committee | 2010 to 2012 |
Political Interests
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Karen Bradley has 18 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 15 July 2026 - £150.00 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Silverstone Circuits Ltd - £1,860.00 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Allwyn Entertainment Ltd - £4,400.00 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 20 May 2026 - £150.00 | 20 May 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 18 March 2026 - £150.00 | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 25 February 2026 - £150.00 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 17 December 2025 - £150.00 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Inter Parliamentary Union Executive Committee. This is an unpaid role. | 3 Nov 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Allwyn Entertainment Ltd - £1,190.00 | 7 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Vice-chair of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. This is an unpaid role. | 21 Feb 2025 |
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| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Treasurer of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role. | 17 Feb 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Substitute member of the UK delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. | 4 Dec 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | A member of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Board to assist Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in the Governance of the new funding programme. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Nov 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | A Trustee of the Arise Foundation, a charity which seeks to confront modern slavery and human trafficking through frontline organisations. This is an unpaid role. | 26 Apr 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of the new Restoring Your Railway Leek – Stoke Board and Steering Committee. This is an unpaid role and meetings are monthly. | 8 Apr 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | Member (unpaid) of the panel for the Community Foundation for Staffordshire’s We Love the Moorlands programme, which offers funding support to assist grassroots community and voluntary organisations that are based across the Moorlands area. | 11 Nov 2021 |
| Employment and earnings | Member of the Advisory Board of the House Magazine - Political Engagement Limited | 1 Jul 2021 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee (unpaid) of the Human Trafficking Foundation, a non-profit organisation which works to help victims of human trafficking and modern slavery. I consulted ACOBA about this role. | 5 Nov 2020 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Karen Bradley has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
51 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Karen Bradley represents Staffordshire Moorlands. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Karen Bradley won with 35% of the votes, and Alastair Watson (Labour) came second with 33%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Bradley | Conservative | 15,310 | 35.4% |
| Alastair Watson | Labour | 14,135 | 32.6% |
| Dave Poole | Reform UK | 10,065 | 23.2% |
| Helen Stead | Green Party | 2,293 | 5.3% |
| Graham Oakes | Liberal Democrat | 1,499 | 3.5% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Karen Bradley took part in 115 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Karen Bradley voted the same way as their party in 113 of the 113 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this