Dr Beccy Cooper, MP for Worthing West
Beccy Cooper has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Health and Social Care Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Tobacco and Vapes Bill | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Health and Social Care Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
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.
Beccy Cooper has 11 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Uganda between 27 July 2026 and 31 July 2026 | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Trustee of charity Action on Gambling (registered charity 1217653). | 29 Jun 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Aid Alliance - £5,010.00 | 29 May 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Aid Alliance - £1,860.00 | 3 Feb 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Treasurer and Member of Executive Committee of Tribune Group of Labour MPs. This is an unpaid role. | 3 Feb 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy - £10,158.72 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Kenya between 12 October 2025 and 17 October 2025 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Switzerland between 08 October 2025 and 09 October 2025 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. | 3 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Membership of the British Medical Association. | 3 Aug 2024 |
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| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of the Royal Society of Public Health. This is an unpaid role. | 3 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.
Beccy Cooper asked 56 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.
122 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
Beccy Cooper represents Worthing West. 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
Beccy Cooper won with 40% of the votes, and Peter Bottomley (Conservative) came second with 32%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beccy Cooper | Labour | 20,519 | 40.2% |
| Peter Bottomley | Conservative | 16,570 | 32.5% |
| Edmund Rooke | Reform UK | 7,562 | 14.8% |
| Sonya Mallin | Green Party | 3,274 | 6.4% |
| Morag Chugg | Liberal Democrat | 2,708 | 5.3% |
| Kathryn Attwood | Independent | 364 | 0.7% |
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 Beccy Cooper took part in 183 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Beccy Cooper voted the same way as their party in 181 of the 181 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 | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | 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% |
| 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