Dan Carden, MP for Liverpool Walton
Dan Carden has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Foreign Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Financial Secretary (Treasury) (HM Treasury) | 2020 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for International Development (Department for International Development) | 2018 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Minister (International Development) (Department for International Development) | 2018 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
| Finance (No.2) Bill | 2024 | |
| Finance Bill | 2024 | |
| Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories | 2024 | |
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Online Safety Bill | 2022 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (2021) | 2021 |
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| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Audit Committee | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (2021) | 2021 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Procedure 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.
Dan Carden has 21 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 25 June 2026 - £5,000.00 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Employment and earnings | Speaking engagements - Arab Investments Limited | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 17 June 2026 - £1,000.00 | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Employment and earnings | Speaking engagements - Norton Rose Fulbright LLP | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Arab Investments Limited - £3,400.00 | 28 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Mr Alan Halsall - £5,000.00 | 24 May 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | The Jockey Club Racecourses Limited - £460.00 | 7 May 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to India between 11 March 2026 and 14 March 2026 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to United Arab Emirates between 27 January 2026 and 01 February 2026 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| Employment and earnings | Writing articles - Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANMFS Ltd) | 2 Feb 2026 |
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| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 29 January 2026 - £850.00 | 2 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Qatar between 04 December 2025 and 09 December 2025 | 30 Dec 2025 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Germany between 12 November 2025 and 14 November 2025 | 26 Nov 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment | Agreement starting 27 August 2025 - £1,458.00 | 19 Sep 2025 |
| Employment and earnings | Advisor - Green Rock Robotics INC. | 19 Sep 2025 |
| Employment and earnings | Member of the Advisory Board of Steps Together Group - Steps Together Group Ltd | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment | Agreement starting 01 April 2025 - £3,000.00 | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Treasurer and Executive Member of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role. | 1 Nov 2023 |
| Miscellaneous | Executive Member and President of the Board of Young Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role. | 1 Nov 2023 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid director of Addiction Recovery Now Ltd, a company limited by guarantee. The company researches addiction issues and seeks to promote visible recovery in society. | 24 Aug 2021 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Commission on Alcohol Harm, established by the Alcohol Harm Alliance (a consortium of over 50 non-governmental organisations) to promote evidence based policies to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. | 7 Jul 2021 |
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.
Dan Carden asked 70 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.
41 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
Dan Carden represents Liverpool Walton. 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
Dan Carden won with 71% of the votes, and Joe Doran (Reform UK) came second with 16%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Carden | Labour | 26,032 | 70.6% |
| Joe Doran | Reform UK | 5,787 | 15.7% |
| Martyn Madeley | Green Party | 2,388 | 6.5% |
| Emma Ware | Conservative | 1,282 | 3.5% |
| Sean Cadwallader | Liberal Democrat | 945 | 2.6% |
| Billy Lake | Liberal | 452 | 1.2% |
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 Dan Carden took part in 159 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Dan Carden voted the same way as their party in 159 of the 159 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: 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 |
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| 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% |
| 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