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Sarah Coombes, MP for West Bromwich

Sarah Coombes has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Assistant Whip.

Roles and committees

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

In government

PostWhen
Assistant Whip (Whips Office (Commons))2026 to nowNow

Committees

PostWhen
Modernisation Committee2024 to 2025

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.

Sarah Coombes has 3 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesGoogle UK Ltd - £584.0710 Sep 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Brazil between 09 November 2025 and 17 November 20258 Dec 2025
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in London1 Aug 2024

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.

Sarah Coombes asked 61 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Transport41
Department of Health and Social Care6
Department for Business and Trade4
Ministry of Justice3
Department for Work and Pensions3

Latest questions

24 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 29 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 29 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 15 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
£16,737
Office costs · claims for running an office£13,129
Staffing · claims relating to staff£1,000
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£2,608

84 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

Sarah Coombes represents West Bromwich. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Sarah Coombes

Labour

MAJORITY
9,554

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
49%

of people who could vote did

Sarah Coombes won with 46% of the votes, and Will Goodhand (Conservative) came second with 20%.

Votes for each party

Labour46% · 16,872
Conservative20% · 7,318
Reform UK19% · 7,101
Green Party6% · 2,036
Independent5% · 1,707
Liberal Democrat4% · 1,314
Everyone else0% · 133
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sarah CoombesLabour16,87246.2%
Will GoodhandConservative7,31820.1%
Ray NockReform UK7,10119.5%
Gita JoshiGreen Party2,0365.6%
Mohammed YasinIndependent1,7074.7%
Parmjit GillLiberal Democrat1,3143.6%
Sam HardingUK Independence Party1330.4%

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
£711 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
6.4%
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 Sarah Coombes took part in 189 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Sarah Coombes voted the same way as their party in 187 of the 187 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 voteForFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateForFree vote
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

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