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Liam Conlon, MP for Beckenham and Penge

Liam Conlon 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
Railways Bill2026
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]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.

Liam Conlon has 3 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Switzerland between 05 November 2025 and 07 November 202511 Feb 2026
MiscellaneousChair of the Labour Party Irish Society.31 Jul 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in London31 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.

Liam Conlon asked 13 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Work and Pensions4
Department for Education3
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology3
Department of Health and Social Care2
Treasury1

Latest questions

19 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 29 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 29 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answered 24 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answered 24 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answered 24 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
£26,049
Office costs · claims for running an office£21,673
Staffing · claims relating to staff£4,376

113 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

Liam Conlon represents Beckenham and Penge. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Liam Conlon

Labour

MAJORITY
12,905

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
68%

of people who could vote did

Liam Conlon won with 49% of the votes, and Hannah Gray (Conservative) came second with 25%.

Votes for each party

Labour49% · 25,753
Conservative25% · 12,848
Reform UK10% · 5,355
Liberal Democrat8% · 4,436
Green Party7% · 3,830
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Liam ConlonLabour25,75349.3%
Hannah GrayConservative12,84824.6%
Edward ApostolidesReform UK5,35510.3%
Chloe-Jane RossLiberal Democrat4,4368.5%
Ruth FabricantGreen Party3,8307.3%

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
£967 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
3.8%
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 Liam Conlon took part in 199 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Liam Conlon voted the same way as their party in 197 of the 197 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 itAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
4 SepMotion to sit in privateAgainstSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
View data table
MonthThis MPParty average
Oct 25100%100%
Nov 25100%100%
Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
Feb 26100%100%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
May 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