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Charlotte Nichols, MP for Warrington North

Charlotte Nichols has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

Roles and committees

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

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Government Equalities Office)2021

Committees

PostWhen
Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill2025
Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill [HL]2025
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority2024 to nowNow
Zoological Society of London (Leases) Bill2024
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill2024
Energy Bill [HL]2023
Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill2023
Online Safety (Re-committed Clauses and Schedules) Bill2022
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PostWhen
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL]2022
Business and Trade Sub-Committee on National Security and Investment2022 to 2024
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill2022
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill2021
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee2020 to 2024
European Scrutiny Committee2020 to 2021
European Statutory Instruments Committee2020 to 2021

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.

Charlotte Nichols has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Finland between 27 October 2025 and 29 October 202514 Nov 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.

Charlotte Nichols asked 90 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care27
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero17
Home Office9
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs5
Ministry of Justice4

Latest questions

15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Not answered yet
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Answered 18 Sep 2026
8 Sep 2026 · to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Answered 22 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
£13,649
Office costs · claims for running an office£13,649

25 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

Charlotte Nichols represents Warrington North. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Charlotte Nichols

Labour

MAJORITY
9,190

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
57%

of people who could vote did

Charlotte Nichols won with 47% of the votes, and Trevor Nicholls (Reform UK) came second with 24%.

Votes for each party

Labour47% · 18,730
Reform UK24% · 9,540
Conservative16% · 6,486
Liberal Democrat7% · 2,737
Green Party5% · 1,889
Independent2% · 659
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Charlotte NicholsLabour18,73046.8%
Trevor NichollsReform UK9,54023.8%
Yasmin Al-AtroshiConservative6,48616.2%
David CrowtherLiberal Democrat2,7376.8%
Hannah SpencerGreen Party1,8894.7%
Maddison WheeldonIndependent6591.6%

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
£723 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
3.3%
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 Charlotte Nichols took part in 215 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Charlotte Nichols voted the same way as their party in 215 of the 215 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
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame 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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MonthThis 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