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Antonia Bance, MP for Tipton and Wednesbury

Antonia Bance has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls; Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls2025 to nowNow
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee2024 to nowNow

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.

Antonia Bance has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesGMB - £900.003 Oct 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.

Antonia Bance asked 30 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Education6
Department for Business and Trade4
Department for Work and Pensions4
Department of Health and Social Care3
Department for Transport3

Latest questions

28 Aug 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 15 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 15 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 8 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 8 Sep 2026
8 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 17 Jul 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
£17,971
Office costs · claims for running an office£17,799
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£172

66 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

Antonia Bance represents Tipton and Wednesbury. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Antonia Bance

Labour

MAJORITY
3,385

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
43%

of people who could vote did

Antonia Bance won with 37% of the votes, and Shaun Bailey (Conservative) came second with 26%.

Votes for each party

Labour37% · 11,755
Conservative26% · 8,370
Reform UK25% · 8,019
Independent5% · 1,605
Green Party5% · 1,509
Liberal Democrat2% · 592
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Antonia BanceLabour11,75536.9%
Shaun BaileyConservative8,37026.3%
Jack SabharwalReform UK8,01925.2%
Mark ReddingGreen Party1,5094.7%
Mohammed Hussain-BillaIndependent9453.0%
Abdul HusenIndependent6602.1%
Mark RochellLiberal Democrat5921.9%

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
£633 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
6.5%
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 Antonia Bance took part in 181 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Antonia Bance voted the same way as their party in 180 of the 180 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
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
4 SepMotion to sit in privateAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: the final voteForSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: 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
Oct 25100%100%
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Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
Feb 26100%100%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
Jun 26100%100%
Jul 26100%99%
Sep 26100%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