Sarah Bool, MP for South Northamptonshire
Sarah Bool has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Home Office); Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Justice); Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons); Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2026 to now | Now |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill | 2025 | |
| Tobacco and Vapes Bill | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Environment, Food and Rural 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.
Sarah Bool has 9 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Silverstone Circuits Limited - £3,140.00 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Motorsport UK Association Ltd - £600.00 | 2 Feb 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Israel between 04 January 2026 and 08 January 2026 | 18 Jan 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust - £65.62 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme - £170.60 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust - £76.00 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust - £123.20 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Malta between 14 November 2025 and 16 November 2025 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Rugby World Cup (England 2025) - £386.00 | 6 Sep 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.
Sarah Bool asked 57 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.
69 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
Sarah Bool represents South Northamptonshire. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Sarah Bool won with 36% of the votes, and Rufia Ashraf (Labour) came second with 29%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Bool | Conservative | 19,191 | 35.7% |
| Rufia Ashraf | Labour | 15,504 | 28.9% |
| Paul Hogan | Reform UK | 8,962 | 16.7% |
| Stewart Tolley | Liberal Democrat | 4,989 | 9.3% |
| Emmie Williamson | Green Party | 3,040 | 5.7% |
| Ian McCord | Independent | 1,556 | 2.9% |
| Mick Stott | Workers Party of Britain | 246 | 0.5% |
| Stuart Robert | Independent | 209 | 0.4% |
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 Sarah Bool took part in 183 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Sarah Bool 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 | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | For | 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% | 100% |
| 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