Claire Young
MP since 4 Jul 2024
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Claire Young is the Liberal Democrat MP for Thornbury and Yate, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.
415
Votes Cast
£203,164
Expenses 2024-25
3,014
Majority
39.0%
Vote Share
Expenses (2024-25)
£203,164
Election Result(2024 General Election)
Turnout: 53,367 voters
Parliamentary Activity
Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)
199
Written Questions
32
Oral Questions
190
Debates Spoken In⚑
236
Speeches⚑
415
Divisions Voted
⚑Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.
Voting Record
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4 NOChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
4 votes · 9 Mar 2026
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
4 votes · 9 Mar 2026
3 AYEIndustry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill Committee
3 votes · 23 Feb 2026
Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill Committee
3 votes · 23 Feb 2026
2 AYENational Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill Committee
2 votes · 21 Jan 2026
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill Committee
2 votes · 21 Jan 2026
National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: Third Reading
21 Jan 2026
3 NODiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
3 votes · 20 Jan 2026
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
3 votes · 20 Jan 2026
Financial Interests(3)
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
Steve Webb
£5,000
£5,000
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
Steve Webb
£5,000
- Name of donor
- Steve Webb
- Address of donor
- private
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £5,000
- Donor status
- individual
Registered 4 September 2025
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
15 August 2024 to 21 December 2025
free membership of the National Liberal Club from 15 August 2024 to 21 December 2025
8 July 2024 to 31 December 2025
£1,553
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
15 August 2024 to 21 December 2025
free membership of the National Liberal Club from 15 August 2024 to 21 December 2025
8 July 2024 to 31 December 2025
- Name of donor
- National Liberal Club
- Address of donor
- 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- free membership of the National Liberal Club from 15 August 2024 to 21 December 2025, value £1,552.86
- Date received
- 8 July 2024 to 31 December 2025
- Date accepted
- 24 July 2024
- Donor status
- unincorporated association
Registered 4 August 2024
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
Free (honourary) membership of the National Liberal Club from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
£1,140
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
Free (honourary) membership of the National Liberal Club from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Name of donor
- National Liberal Club
- Address of donor
- 1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- Free (honourary) membership of the National Liberal Club from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026, value £1,140
- Date received
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Date accepted
- 1 January 2026
- Donor status
- unincorporated association
Registered 5 January 2026
Activity Pulse
Questions asked and motions sponsored by Claire in Parliament
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing the availability of Level 3 vocational qual
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on increasing the availability of university undergraduate le
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how rurality is taken into account when allocating funding for youth work.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the levels of social benefit obtained from investing in youth work provision.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on the type of jobs into which those leaving youth work enter.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will publish the analysis of costs and benefits that informed her Department's conclusion that the solar canopies on car parks po
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department considered the potential merits of mandating partial installation of solar canopies on existing outdoor car parks
Renewables Obligation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of moving the cost of the Renewables Obligation levy from household energy bills to general taxa
Renewable Energy: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on expanding and developing renewable infrastructure to match renewables expansion.
Business Premises: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of opening up business energy data on forecasting, carbon reporting and
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