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Melanie Ward

Labour · MP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy · Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office)

  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office) · since 2026-07-22
Who
Labour
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office)
Where
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Commons
Votes recorded
17
2026-07-01 – 2026-07-15
Declared interests
Not itemised
1 declarations
Connections
6
17 votes counted separately
Offices held
1
1 current
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How have they voted?
Held
17

17 recorded votes held against the published identifier.

Did not vote
9
Voted Aye
4
Voted No
4
Who pays them?
Held
Not itemised

1 registered financial interests held against the published identifier.

Visits outside the UK
Not itemised
What power have they held?
Held
3

3 offices and committee memberships held against the published identifier.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office)
2026-07-22
Who are they connected to?
Held
6

6 identifier-linked connections held against the published identifier.

Committee
2
Constituency
1
Office held
1
Party
1
What have they asked and who have they met?
Not measured
Not measured

The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured. No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.

Written questions
Not measured
Ministerial meetings
None found
Committees
2
What changed most recently?
Held
2026-07-22

21 distinct events across 3 publishers.

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scotland Office)
2026-07-22
Voted Aye: Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplac
2026-07-15
Voted Aye: Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting)
2026-07-15
§ 01

Voting record

Held
Did not vote
9
Voted Aye
4
Voted No
4

Divisions held from 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-15. Counts only — Folio publishes no rebellion rates or ideological scores.

§ 02

Financial interests

Held
§ 03

Career and offices

Held
Committees
§ 04

Connections

Held

Connections are links proved by a published identifier. 17 recorded votes are this person's own activity and are counted in the voting record, not here.

Committee
2
Constituency
1
Party
1
member declared interest
1
§ 05

Parliamentary activity

Written questions
Not measured

The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Ministerial meetings
None found

No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.

§ 06

Recent activity

Showing the 12 most recent of 21 distinct events.

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Raw rows read
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Distinct events
21
Duplicates collapsed
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Publishers
  • UK Parliament Divisions
    Published source
    17 events
  • UK Parliament Members API
    Published source
    3 events
  • Register of Members' Financial Interests
    Published source
    1 events
Identity
Coverage by domain
  • Votes
    17 votes held against the published identifier.
    17
  • Financial interests
    1 financial interests held against the published identifier.
    1
  • Career
    3 career held against the published identifier.
    3
  • Connections
    6 connections held against the published identifier.
    6
  • Written questions
    The written questions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.
    Not measured
  • Ministerial meetings
    No ministerial meetings were found in the imported records.
    None found
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