Justin Madders, MP for Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
Justin Madders has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport); Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (Department for Transport) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Employment Rights and Protections) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Business and Industrial Strategy) (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Minister (Future of Work) (HM Official Opposition) | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Labour) (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Shadow Minister (Health) (Department of Health) | 2015 to 2018 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls | 2025 to now | Now |
| Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Employment Rights Bill | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) | 2022 | |
| Health and Care Bill | 2021 | |
| Petitions Committee | 2015 |
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.
Justin Madders has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Member of Executive Committee of Tribune Group of Labour MPs. This is an unpaid role. | 3 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Lebanon between 06 October 2025 and 10 October 2025 | 17 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Ellesmere Port and Neston Helping Hands, a charity which aims to provide poverty relief and support to residents in my constituency. This is an unpaid role. | 4 Dec 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.
Justin Madders asked 96 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
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.
106 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
Justin Madders represents Ellesmere Port and Bromborough. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Justin Madders won with 58% of the votes, and Michael Alreed (Reform UK) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Madders | Labour | 24,186 | 57.6% |
| Michael Alreed | Reform UK | 7,278 | 17.3% |
| Lee Evans | Conservative | 5,210 | 12.4% |
| Harry Gorman | Green Party | 2,706 | 6.4% |
| Chris Carubia | Liberal Democrat | 2,328 | 5.5% |
| Ruth Boulton | Independent | 256 | 0.6% |
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 Justin Madders took part in 235 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Justin Madders voted the same way as their party in 233 of the 233 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 |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | 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% | 99% |
| 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