Chris Coghlan — Hear, Hear

Voting record

3

Voted for

4

Voted against

2

Didn’t vote

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.

See Chris Coghlan’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Bill votes All votes Live bills

Whip meter Estimate 94%

How often Chris Coghlan voted the same way as most of the Liberal Democrat party, across every recorded division. Parliament doesn’t publish whether a vote was officially whipped, so this is our best estimate from the public record — not a confirmed fact.

Recent votes

Representation of the People Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading

Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted No at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted No at 3rd reading

Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted No at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted No at 2nd reading

Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading

Government & opposition roles

No government or shadow front-bench post on file for Chris Coghlan — 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 Chris Coghlan →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

1. Employment and earnings

Role, work or services: Reservist army officer
From: 10 September 2025.
Payer: British Army, MOD, London Guards, 27 St John's Hill, Battersea SW11 1TT
Additional information: Payments will be listed below
(Registered 24 November 2025)
Payment: £403.04 Army Reservist pay
Received on: 31 October 2025. Hours: 32 hrs Estimated.
(Registered 24 November 2025)
Payment: £530.82 Army Reservist pay
Received on: 28 November 2025. Hours: 32 hrs Estimated.
(Registered 3 December 2025)
Payment: £430.56 Army Reservist pay
Received on: 31 December 2025. Hours: 25 hrs Estimated.
(Registered 21 January 2026)
Payment: £787.51 Army reservist pay
Received on: 31 March 2026. Hours: 40 hrs Estimate.
(Registered 25 April 2026; updated 28 May 2026)
Payment: £184.17 Army Reservist pay
Received on: 31 January 2026. Hours: 8 hrs.
(Registered 28 May 2026)
Payment: £152.17 Army reserve pay
Received on: 30 April 2026. Hours: 8 hrs Estimate.
(Registered 28 May 2026)
Payment: £149.97 Army Reserve pay
Received on: 29 May 2026. Hours: 6 hrs Estimate.
(Registered 12 June 2026)
Payment: £883.30 Reservist officer pay
Received on: 30 June 2026. Hours: 32 hrs Estimated.
(Registered 31 July 2026)
Payment: £2,664.29 Reservist officer pay
Received on: 31 July 2026. Hours: 100 hrs Estimated.
(Registered 21 August 2026)

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

Name of donor: Philip Gosling
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,255
Donor status: individual
(Registered 21 August 2026)

Written questions to government

No written questions on file for Chris Coghlan yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Chris Coghlan has ever tabled.

Business costs (IPSA)

£227,005.70 paid out to or for Chris Coghlan across 134 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 Chris Coghlan’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.

By category

Staffing — £180,632.80 (20 claims)

Office Costs — £42,186.89 (108 claims)

MP Travel — £3,068.27 (4 claims)

Staff Travel — £1,117.74 (2 claims)

Most recent claims

Software & applications — £369.97, 2026-03-25 — WWW.PERPLEXITY.AI [200013613-12138]

Utilities — £311.42, 2026-03-17 — Electricity

Utilities — £417.14, 2026-03-17 — Electricity

Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £65.56, 2026-03-17 — Internet

Cleaning services — £96.00, 2026-03-17 — Cleaner February

Cleaning services — £96.00, 2026-03-17 — Cleaner January

Venue hire, meetings & surgeries — £0.00, 2026-03-05 — Repayment of 60356450

Venue hire, meetings & surgeries — £0.00, 2026-03-05 — Repayment of 60352407

Every claim on file for Chris Coghlan →

Early Day Motions

Chris Coghlan has tabled 2 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 53 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Chris Coghlan personally tabled — not motions Chris Coghlan may have added their name to as a supporter, which this data source doesn’t track per MP. See Early Day Motions for what this does and doesn’t cover.

Most recent tabled

Second Reading of the Mental Capacity (Duty to Assess) Bill — tabled 2026-09-11, 26 sponsors

Duty to assess mental capacity — tabled 2026-06-29, 27 sponsors

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Chris Coghlan is a listed officer of 2 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Financial Markets and Services — Officer

Declared funding: Industry Advisory Group (£13,501-15,000).

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Reserves and Cadets — Vice Chair

No declared funding on file.

Who funds these groups

Biggest declared funder across these groups: Industry Advisory Group — about £14,250.50 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group for Financial Markets and Services).

Industry Advisory Group — about £14,250.50, 1 group

Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Chris Coghlan personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Chris Coghlan 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.