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Dr Kieran Mullan, MP for Bexhill and Battle

Kieran Mullan has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Shadow Minister (Justice).

Roles and committees

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

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow Minister (Justice) (Ministry of Justice)2024 to nowNow
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Transport) (Department for Transport)2024

Committees

PostWhen
Courts and Tribunals Bill2026
Public Office (Accountability) Bill2025
Victims and Courts Bill2025
Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill2024
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]2024
Seafarers' Wages Bill [HL]2023
Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill2022
Show the other 4
PostWhen
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL]2022
Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill2021
Justice Committee2020 to 2024
Procedure Committee2020

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.

Kieran Mullan has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousTrustee of ValueYou, a volunteer recognition scheme.9 Jan 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.

Kieran Mullan asked 68 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Ministry of Justice20
Home Office19
Department of Health and Social Care12
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero7
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government4

Latest questions

28 Aug 2026 · to the Ministry of Justice
Answered 8 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Ministry of Justice
Answered 8 Sep 2026
15 Jul 2026 · to the Ministry of Justice
Answered 2 Sep 2026
7 Jul 2026 · to the Home Office
Answered 13 Jul 2026
22 Jun 2026 · to the Ministry of Justice
Answered 29 Jun 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
£15,255
Office costs · claims for running an office£11,399
Staffing · claims relating to staff£200
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£2,020
Miscellaneous · other claims£1,636

71 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

Kieran Mullan represents Bexhill and Battle. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Kieran Mullan

Conservative

MAJORITY
2,657

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
66%

of people who could vote did

Kieran Mullan won with 34% of the votes, and Christine Bayliss (Labour) came second with 28%.

Votes for each party

Conservative34% · 16,186
Labour28% · 13,529
Reform UK17% · 7,929
Liberal Democrat7% · 3,473
Independent6% · 2,975
Green Party6% · 2,972
Everyone else1% · 686
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Kieran MullanConservative16,18633.9%
Christine BaylissLabour13,52928.3%
Ian GribbinReform UK7,92916.6%
Becky JonesLiberal Democrat3,4737.3%
Jonathan KentGreen Party2,9726.2%
Abul AzadIndependent2,2064.6%
Jeff NewnhamIndependent7691.6%
Julia LongParty of Women3320.7%
Nigel JacklinIndependent Network2100.4%
Colin SullivanUK Independence Party1440.3%

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
£731 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
3.2%
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 Kieran Mullan took part in 215 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Kieran Mullan voted the same way as their party in 213 of the 213 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
8 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