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Kirsteen Sullivan, MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow

Kirsteen Sullivan has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Administration Committee; Scottish Affairs Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill2025
Administration Committee2025 to nowNow
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.

Kirsteen Sullivan has 4 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
ShareholdingsShares in Yardley Programme Management Limited1 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousCompany Secretary, Yardley Programme Management Limited. This is an unpaid role.1 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousCompany Director, Yardley Programme Management Limited. This is an unpaid role.1 Aug 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in Alicante province29 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.

Kirsteen Sullivan asked 35 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Work and Pensions11
Department for Business and Trade7
Department of Health and Social Care4
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office3
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero2

Latest questions

10 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answered 18 Sep 2026
10 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Answered 18 Sep 2026
3 Jun 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 9 Jun 2026
5 Mar 2026 · to the Women and Equalities
Answered 12 Mar 2026
12 Feb 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 3 Mar 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
£22,977
Office costs · claims for running an office£19,257
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£3,720

92 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

Kirsteen Sullivan represents Bathgate and Linlithgow. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Kirsteen Sullivan

Labour

MAJORITY
8,323

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
58%

of people who could vote did

Kirsteen Sullivan won with 47% of the votes, and Martyn Day (Scottish National Party) came second with 27%.

Votes for each party

Labour47% · 19,774
Scottish National Party27% · 11,451
Reform UK8% · 3,524
Conservative7% · 3,144
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,171
Scottish Green Party3% · 1,390
Everyone else1% · 611
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Kirsteen SullivanLabour19,77447.0%
Martyn DayScottish National Party11,45127.2%
Jamie McNameeReform UK3,5248.4%
Lynn MunroConservative3,1447.5%
Sally PattleLiberal Democrat2,1715.2%
Simon JayScottish Green Party1,3903.3%
John HannahIndependence for Scotland Party3820.9%
Stuart McArthurIndependent2290.5%

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
£769 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
2.9%
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 Kirsteen Sullivan took part in 179 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Kirsteen Sullivan voted the same way as their party in 177 of the 177 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
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