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Alex Burghart, MP for Brentwood and Ongar

Alex Burghart has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Roles and committees

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

In government

PostWhen
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office)2022 to 2024
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions)2022
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) (Department for Education)2021 to 2022

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Cabinet Office)2024 to nowNow
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Office)2024 to nowNow

Committees

PostWhen
Procurement Bill [HL]2023
Pension Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) Bill2022
Skills and Post-16 Education [HL] Bill2021
Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill2021
Human Rights (Joint Committee)2017 to 2019
Work and Pensions Committee2017 to 2019

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.

Alex Burghart has 12 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Italy between 24 August 2026 and 26 August 202618 Sep 2026
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MPDavid Robert Meller - £2,000.007 Sep 2026
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MPIPGL Ltd - £3,000.0021 Aug 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 17 April 2026 - £1,000.0029 Apr 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to France between 15 January 2026 and 17 January 202611 Feb 2026
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesCliveden Literary Festival - £2,302.004 Nov 2025
Employment and earningsSpeaking engagement - Primary Access & Research Limited30 Sep 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 26 September 2025 - £1,500.0030 Sep 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 30 April 2025 - £200.001 Sep 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 28 February 2025 - £200.001 Sep 2025
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TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 31 July 2025 - £350.001 Sep 2025
Employment and earningsWriting reviews - The Spectator1 Sep 2025

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.

Alex Burghart asked 379 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Cabinet Office247
Treasury37
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office31
Women and Equalities10
Department of Health and Social Care8

Latest questions

10 Sep 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 23 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Attorney General's Office
Answered 22 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 21 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 21 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 21 Sep 2026

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
£3,771
Office costs · claims for running an office£3,771

23 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

Alex Burghart represents Brentwood and Ongar. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Alex Burghart

Conservative

MAJORITY
5,980

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
64%

of people who could vote did

Alex Burghart won with 37% of the votes, and Paul Godfrey (Reform UK) came second with 24%.

Votes for each party

Conservative37% · 17,731
Reform UK24% · 11,751
Labour23% · 11,082
Liberal Democrat12% · 5,809
Green Party4% · 1,770
English Democrats0% · 189
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Alex BurghartConservative17,73136.7%
Paul GodfreyReform UK11,75124.3%
Gareth BarrettLabour11,08222.9%
David KendallLiberal Democrat5,80912.0%
RJ LearmouthGreen Party1,7703.7%
Robin TilbrookEnglish Democrats1890.4%

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
£956 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
2.6%
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 Alex Burghart took part in 193 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Alex Burghart voted the same way as their party in 191 of the 191 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

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteAgainstFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateAgainstFree vote
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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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