Olivia Bailey, MP for Reading West and Mid Berkshire
Olivia Bailey has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Women and Equalities Committee; Liaison Committee (Commons); Draft Conversion Practices Bill (Joint Committee).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities) (Department for Education) | 2025 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Draft Conversion Practices Bill (Joint Committee) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Pension Schemes Bill | 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.
Olivia Bailey has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Kevin Craig - £2,000.00 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Linda Riley - £5,000.00 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Family members engaged in third-party lobbying | Fionnuala McGoldrick employed as Lobbyist | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Unison South East - £1,900.00 | 19 Dec 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Appointed to the Council of Management of The Lionel Cooke Memorial Fund Ltd. This is an unpaid role. | 7 Jan 2025 |
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.
Olivia Bailey asked 1 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.
99 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
Olivia Bailey represents Reading West and Mid Berkshire. 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
Olivia Bailey won with 35% of the votes, and Ross Mackinnon (Conservative) came second with 32%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia Bailey | Labour | 16,273 | 35.0% |
| Ross Mackinnon | Conservative | 14,912 | 32.0% |
| Kathrin Bosley | Reform UK | 6,260 | 13.4% |
| Helen Belcher | Liberal Democrat | 5,103 | 11.0% |
| Carolyne Culver | Green Party | 3,169 | 6.8% |
| Adrian Abbs | Independent | 562 | 1.2% |
| Adie Peppiatt | Independent | 272 | 0.6% |
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 Olivia Bailey took part in 162 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Olivia Bailey voted the same way as their party in 160 of the 160 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 | Against | 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