Katrina Murray, MP for Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch
Katrina Murray has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Procedure Committee; Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill; Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Representation of the People Bill | 2026 | |
| Procedure Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Rare Cancers Bill | 2025 | |
| Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill | 2025 | |
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Northern Ireland Affairs 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.
Katrina Murray has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to United States between 06 August 2026 and 10 August 2026 | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of the UNISON Group of Labour MP's. This is an unpaid role. | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Switzerland between 05 November 2025 and 07 November 2025 | 17 Nov 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | A.G. Barr PLC - £490.00 | 3 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Conference Arrangement Committee for the Annual Labour Party Conference. | 26 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.
Katrina Murray asked 30 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.
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.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Katrina Murray represents Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch. 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
Katrina Murray won with 45% of the votes, and Stuart McDonald (Scottish National Party) came second with 35%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katrina Murray | Labour | 18,513 | 45.2% |
| Stuart McDonald | Scottish National Party | 14,369 | 35.1% |
| Billy Ross | Reform UK | 3,167 | 7.7% |
| Satbir Gill | Conservative | 1,939 | 4.7% |
| Anne McCrossan | Scottish Green Party | 1,694 | 4.1% |
| Adam Harley | Liberal Democrat | 1,294 | 3.2% |
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 Katrina Murray took part in 186 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Katrina Murray voted the same way as their party in 186 of the 186 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 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% |
| May 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