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Maureen Burke, MP for Glasgow North East

Maureen Burke has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Scottish Affairs Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Scottish Affairs 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.

Maureen Burke has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousElected Member Glasgow City Council. This is an unpaid role.1 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.

Maureen Burke asked 33 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Cabinet Office5
Home Office5
Treasury5
Department for Work and Pensions4
Ministry of Defence3

Latest questions

15 Sep 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Home Office
Not answered yet
1 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 14 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 15 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 10 Sep 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
£11,292
Office costs · claims for running an office£8,761
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£2,531

38 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

Maureen Burke represents Glasgow North East. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Maureen Burke

Labour

MAJORITY
4,637

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
47%

of people who could vote did

Maureen Burke won with 46% of the votes, and Anne McLaughlin (Scottish National Party) came second with 32%.

Votes for each party

Labour46% · 15,639
Scottish National Party32% · 11,002
Scottish Green Party7% · 2,471
Reform UK7% · 2,272
Conservative3% · 1,182
Liberal Democrat2% · 592
Everyone else3% · 933
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Maureen BurkeLabour15,63945.9%
Anne McLaughlinScottish National Party11,00232.3%
Ewan LewisScottish Green Party2,4717.2%
Jonathan WalmsleyReform UK2,2726.7%
Robert ConnellyConservative1,1823.5%
Sheila ThomsonLiberal Democrat5921.7%
Catherine McKernanAlba Party5511.6%
Chris SermanniTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition2360.7%
Gary SteeleCommunist Party of Britain1460.4%

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
£663 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
5.6%
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 Maureen Burke took part in 101 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Maureen Burke voted the same way as their party in 99 of the 99 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 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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MonthThis MPParty average
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Jan 26100%100%
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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