Oliver Ryan
Labour (Co-op) Burnley
Voting record
Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.
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Every Commons division on file for Oliver Ryan — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 484 of 590 (82%).
Covers 9 Mar 2016 to 11 Sep 2026 — Parliament’s votes data doesn’t go back further. “No vote recorded” is Parliament’s own list of members with nothing recorded for that division: it can mean absent, deliberately abstaining, paired, or excused, and the data doesn’t say which. Click a division title for Parliament’s own page for it.
Government & opposition roles
No government or shadow front-bench post on file for Oliver Ryan — most MPs never hold one, so this is the normal state for a backbencher, not a gap in the data.
Declared financial interests
From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Oliver Ryan →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Name of donor: Anthony George Watson
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,600 for support in my work as an MP, to pay for the printing of my constituency-wide annual report newsletter.
Date received: 17 October 2025
Date accepted: 17 October 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 28 October 2025)
Name of donor: Avanti West Coast
Address of donor: 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London W2 1AF
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 30 complimentary return rail tickets from Preston to London, for 16 - 18 year olds on my Political Summer School (estimated cost due to fluctuating rail fares and no individual cost on the tickets), value £3,000
Date received: 7 July 2026 to 14 July 2026
Date accepted: 7 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration 14445025
(Registered 3 August 2026)
Name of donor: Michael Craven
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 for support in my work as an MP, to pay for the printing of my constituency-wide annual report newsletter.
Date received: 1 September 2026
Date accepted: 1 September 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 2 September 2026)
Name of donor: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Address of donor: c/o Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 30 Charles Street, London W1J 5DZ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£7276.54), accommodation (£1880.31) and meals (£400), value £9,556.85
Destination of visit: Saudi Arabia
Dates of visit: 11 October 2025 to 14 October 2025
Purpose of visit: Led a delegation of MPs and Peers over 4 days, to meet several Saudi Ministers, royal family members and members of the Shura Council, in relation to: trade, defence, tourism (Haj/Umrah), education and energy. A dinner was hosted at the British Embassy with the Ambassador to promote Saudi-British relations.
(Registered 29 October 2025)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Oliver Ryan yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Oliver Ryan has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£253,795.38 paid out to or for Oliver Ryan across 290 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Oliver Ryan’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.
Early Day Motions
No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Oliver Ryan — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Oliver Ryan’s full record.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Oliver Ryan is a listed officer of 4 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.
Biggest declared funder across these groups: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — about £77,250.50 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Saudi Arabia).
Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Oliver Ryan personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Oliver Ryan is a listed officer of — ordinary members aren’t published. Amounts are Parliament’s own figures; where it gave a banded range the midpoint is used, so totals are approximate. Funders are grouped by name, so the same organisation spelled very differently may appear twice.
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