Sarah Olney

MP since 12 Dec 2019

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Sarah Olney is the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park, and has been an MP continually since 12 December 2019. She currently undertakes the role of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Business).

1233

Votes Cast

£300,579

Expenses 2024-25

17,155

Majority

55.4%

Vote Share

Expenses (2024-25)

£300,579

Staffing£265,986
Office£34,366
Travel£228

Year-on-Year

2024-25£300,579
2023-24£282,457
2022-23£267,725
2021-22£240,601
2020-21£238,339
2019-20£43,300
2017-18£23,305
2016-17£22,116

Election Result(2024 General Election)

Turnout: 51,517 voters

Liberal Democrat
28,528 votes55.4%
Conservative
11,373 votes22.1%
Labour
5,048 votes9.8%
Reform UK
3,258 votes6.3%
Green Party
2,728 votes5.3%
The Mitre TW9
349 votes0.7%
Social Democratic Party
233 votes0.5%

Parliamentary Activity

Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)

270

Written Questions

44

Oral Questions

206

Debates Spoken In

403

Speeches

360

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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Aye: 673No: 560

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4 NO

National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

4 votes · 19 Mar 2025

3 AYE

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage

3 votes · 18 Mar 2025

3 AYE

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage

3 votes · 17 Mar 2025

2 AYE

Finance Bill Report Stage

2 votes · 3 Mar 2025

1 AYE1 NO

Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill

2 votes · 25 Feb 2025

Financial Interests(1)

(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

Linda Christmas

£2,000

£2,000
Name of donor
Linda Christmas
Address of donor
private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
£2,000
Donor status
individual

Registered 11 March 2025

Activity Pulse

Questions asked and motions sponsored by Sarah in Parliament

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard to be processed for standard authorisation per year since 2009.

AnsweredDepartment of Health and Social Care26 Nov 2024

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of uncompleted Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard applications per year since 2009.

AnsweredDepartment of Health and Social Care26 Nov 2024

Driving Tests: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help tackle the practice of reselling driving test slots.

AnsweredDepartment for Transport25 Nov 2024

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for pension credit there were from 28t October 2024 to 4 November 2024.

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions5 Nov 2024

Office for Value for Money

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has set a target for the impact of the Office for Value for Money on Government expenditure in each of the next three financial years.

AnsweredTreasury4 Nov 2024

Office for Value for Money: Staff

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in the Office for Value for Money have a salary over £100,000.

AnsweredTreasury4 Nov 2024

Office for Value for Money

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the Office for Value for Money on Government expenditure in each of the next three financial ye

AnsweredTreasury4 Nov 2024

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit claims were processed within her Department’s planned timescale in 2024.

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions31 Oct 2024

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for pension credit there were in each week from 23 September to 28 October 2024.

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions31 Oct 2024

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting to be assessed for pension credit on 29 July 2024.

AnsweredDepartment for Work and Pensions31 Oct 2024
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