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Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC, MP for Fareham and Waterlooville

Suella Braverman has been an MP since 2015.

Roles and committees

Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.

In government

PostWhen
Home Secretary (Home Office)2022 to 2023
Home Secretary (Home Office)2022
Attorney General (Attorney General's Office)2021 to 2022
Minister on Leave (Attorney General) (Attorney General's Office)2021
Attorney General (Attorney General's Office)2020 to 2021
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Exiting the European Union) (Department for Exiting the European Union )2018

Committees

PostWhen
Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee2015 to 2016
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee)2015 to 2016
Education Committee2015 to 2017

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.

Suella Braverman has 18 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesAvi Lasarow - £1,166.0013 Apr 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 17 March 2026 - £2,250.007 Apr 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 23 December 2025 - £750.0013 Jan 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 23 December 2025 - £750.0013 Jan 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 07 January 2026 - £3,000.0013 Jan 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 09 December 2025 - £3,000.0010 Dec 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 25 November 2025 - £750.0010 Dec 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 28 October 2025 - £2,250.0029 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 24 October 2025 - £750.0029 Oct 2025
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesConservative Friends of Israel Ltd - £745.9528 Oct 2025
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TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesThorburns Communications Ltd - £514.0015 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 30 September 2025 - £2,250.008 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 25 September 2025 - £1,500.008 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 02 September 2025 - £1,500.0012 Sep 2025
Employment and earningsWriting articles - Telegraph Media Group Holdings Ltd7 Oct 2024
Employment and earningsGuest contributor to radio show - Global Radio Services Ltd9 Sep 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in London1 Jul 2019
Employment and earningsSpeaking engagements - Coulthwaite Group Pte Ltd (trading as CWG Speakers)–

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.

Suella Braverman asked 374 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care81
Department for Education73
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs47
Home Office30
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government30

Latest questions

14 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
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14 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
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14 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
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14 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
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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.

PAID IN 2025-26
£15,058
Office costs · claims for running an office£8,831
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£5,332
Miscellaneous · other claims£895

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.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data

Election result and area

Suella Braverman represents Fareham and Waterlooville. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Suella Braverman

Conservative

MAJORITY
6,079

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
65%

of people who could vote did

Suella Braverman won with 35% of the votes, and Gemma Furnivall (Labour) came second with 23%.

Votes for each party

Conservative35% · 17,561
Labour23% · 11,482
Liberal Democrat19% · 9,533
Reform UK18% · 9,084
Green Party4% · 2,036
Hampshire Independents0% · 217
Everyone else0% · 210
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Suella BravermanConservative17,56135.0%
Gemma FurnivallLabour11,48222.9%
Bella HewittLiberal Democrat9,53319.0%
Kevan Chippindall-HigginReform UK9,08418.1%
Baz MarieGreen Party2,0364.1%
Robert HollidayHampshire Independents2170.4%
Edward DeanRejoin EU2100.4%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£801 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
2.5%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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How they vote

In the last 12 months Suella Braverman took part in 65 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Suella Braverman voted the same way as their party in 62 of the 63 votes where parties gave instructions (98%), and went the other way in 1.

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

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Times they voted against their party (1)
DateVoteThey votedMost of their party
3 FebRemoving the two-child limit on Universal Credit: the first main voteForAgainst

Has this changed over time?

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This MPParty average
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MonthThis MPParty average
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Jan 26100%100%
Feb 260%93%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
May 26100%100%
Jun 26100%100%
Jul 26100%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