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Martin Wrigley, MP for Newton Abbot

Martin Wrigley has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Procedure Committee; Finance Committee (Commons); Science and Technology Committee (Commons).

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Procedure Committee2026 to nowNow
Finance Committee (Commons)2026 to nowNow
Finance (No. 2) Bill2026
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill2024
Science and Technology Committee (Commons)2024 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.

Martin Wrigley has 4 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesNational Liberal Club - £1,029.6229 Sep 2024
Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employmentAgreement - £548.562 Aug 2024
Employment and earningsCouncillor - Teignbridge district council2 Aug 2024
ShareholdingsShares in Moexco Ltd17 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.

Martin Wrigley asked 785 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care184
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs90
Department for Transport65
Cabinet Office59
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology59

Latest questions

15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Not answered yet

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
£18,437
Office costs · claims for running an office£17,032
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£1,405

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

Martin Wrigley represents Newton Abbot. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Martin Wrigley

Liberal Democrat

MAJORITY
2,246

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
65%

of people who could vote did

Martin Wrigley won with 32% of the votes, and Anne Marie Morris (Conservative) came second with 27%.

Votes for each party

Liberal Democrat32% · 15,201
Conservative27% · 12,955
Reform UK18% · 8,494
Labour15% · 7,115
Green Party4% · 2,083
South Devon Alliance4% · 1,924
Everyone else0% · 220
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Martin WrigleyLiberal Democrat15,20131.7%
Anne Marie MorrisConservative12,95527.0%
Christopher HilditchReform UK8,49417.7%
Jacob CousensLabour7,11514.8%
Pauline WynterGreen Party2,0834.3%
Liam MulloneSouth Devon Alliance1,9244.0%
Andre SabineHeritage Party1160.2%
Annaliese CudeVolt United Kingdom1040.2%

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
£690 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
2.3%
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 Martin Wrigley took part in 201 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Martin Wrigley voted the same way as their party in 199 of the 199 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
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame 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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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