Ms Julie Minns, MP for Carlisle
Julie Minns has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Treasury Committee; Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Treasury Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill | 2025 | |
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] | 2024 | |
| Energy Security and Net Zero Committee | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 2024 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.
Julie Minns has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK | International Cricket Council - £500.00 | 23 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Food and Drink Federation - £382.00 | 1 Apr 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Citadel Policy & Communications Ltd - £580.00 | 22 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Carlisle Town Deal Board. This is an unpaid role. | 3 Dec 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Friends of Carlisle Victorian and Turkish Baths. This is an unpaid role. | 29 Jul 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.
Julie Minns asked 42 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.
76 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
Julie Minns represents Carlisle. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Julie Minns won with 39% of the votes, and John Stevenson (Conservative) came second with 28%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Minns | Labour | 18,129 | 39.4% |
| John Stevenson | Conservative | 12,929 | 28.1% |
| Stephen Ward | Reform UK | 9,295 | 20.2% |
| Brian Wernham | Liberal Democrat | 2,982 | 6.5% |
| Gavin Hawkton | Green Party | 1,922 | 4.2% |
| Sean Reed | Independent | 303 | 0.7% |
| Rachel Hayton | Social Democratic Party | 244 | 0.5% |
| Thomas Lynestrider | Independent | 175 | 0.4% |
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 Julie Minns took part in 247 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Julie Minns voted the same way as their party in 245 of the 245 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 | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 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