Julia Lopez, MP for Hornchurch and Upminster
Julia Lopez has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Minister on Leave (Minister of State) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2023 | |
| Minister on Leave (Minister of State) (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) | 2023 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) | 2023 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2023 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2021 to 2022 |
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| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office) | 2020 to 2021 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill | 2024 | |
| Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill | 2022 | |
| European Statutory Instruments Committee | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| International Trade Committee | 2017 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.
No interests are currently registered for Julia Lopez.
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.
Julia Lopez asked 75 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.
14 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
Julia Lopez represents Hornchurch and Upminster. 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
Julia Lopez won with 33% of the votes, and Nicholas Palmer (Reform UK) came second with 28%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Lopez | Conservative | 15,260 | 32.5% |
| Nicholas Palmer | Reform UK | 13,317 | 28.4% |
| Sunny Brar | Labour | 12,939 | 27.6% |
| Melanie Collins | Green Party | 2,620 | 5.6% |
| Ian Sanderson | Liberal Democrat | 2,381 | 5.1% |
| David Warren Durant | Independent | 394 | 0.8% |
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 Julia Lopez took part in 197 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Julia Lopez voted the same way as their party in 195 of the 195 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 | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: 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