Daisy Cooper, MP for St Albans
Daisy Cooper has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Treasury).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Treasury) (Opposition Department) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care) (Opposition Department) | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Education) (Opposition Department) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice) (Opposition Department) | 2020 | |
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Opposition Department) | 2020 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2024 | |
| Building Safety Bill | 2021 |
Other posts
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrats | 2020 to now | Now |
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.
Daisy Cooper has 23 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Alex McEvoy - £2,000.00 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Elizabeth Desmond - £3,000.00 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Dextram Hunter-Torricke - £5,000.00 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Matthew Taylor - £5,000.00 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ashraf Nehru - £1,000.00 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Hannah Nesbit - £1,800.00 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ashraf Nehru - £1,000.00 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ramesh Dewan - £2,804.40 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ramesh Dewan - £3,702.98 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Andrew Harrington - £5,000.00 | 15 Jun 2026 |
Show the other 13
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ahmed Hindawi - £10,000.00 | 15 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Claire Alderson - £10,000.00 | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Chris Osborne - £5,000.00 | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Chris White - £2,600.00 | 12 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Thomas Gosling - £10,000.00 | 14 Feb 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ewan Kirk - £10,000.00 | 14 Feb 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | National Liberal Club - £1,140.00 | 22 Jan 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | College Street Partners Ltd - £20,000.00 | 22 Dec 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Carl Michel - £2,000.00 | 13 Nov 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Ahmed Hindawi and Nagwa Abdelmottaleb - £10,000.00 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | National Liberal Club - £1,311.80 | 25 Sep 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Vice President of the Local Government Association (LGA), which works with councils to support, promote and improve local government. | 20 Nov 2020 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in Suffolk | 28 Oct 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.
Daisy Cooper asked 234 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.
26 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
Daisy Cooper represents St Albans. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Liberal Democrat
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Daisy Cooper won with 57% of the votes, and James Spencer (Conservative) came second with 18%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daisy Cooper | Liberal Democrat | 29,222 | 56.6% |
| James Spencer | Conservative | 9,388 | 18.2% |
| Sophia Bhatti | Labour | 5,189 | 10.1% |
| John Dowdle | Reform UK | 4,336 | 8.4% |
| Simon Grover | Green Party | 3,272 | 6.3% |
| Dafydd Morriss | Heritage Party | 104 | 0.2% |
| Stewart Satterly | Social Democratic Party | 103 | 0.2% |
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 Daisy Cooper took part in 204 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Daisy Cooper voted the same way as their party in 202 of the 202 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 | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | 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 |
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| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
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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