Alex Ballinger — Hear, Hear

Voting record

5

Voted for

0

Voted against

4

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 Alex Ballinger’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Bill votes All votes Live bills

Whip meter Estimate 83%

How often Alex Ballinger voted the same way as most of the Labour 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 didn't vote at 3rd reading

Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted didn't vote at 3rd reading

Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading

Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted Aye 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 Alex Ballinger — 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 Alex Ballinger →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: The Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP)
Address of donor: 1 Horse Guards Avenue, Westminster, London SW1A 2HU
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: The services of a Senior Policy Advisor for 1 day per week from Tuesday 1st September to Tuesday 24th November (agreed on 17 August 2026), value £3,900
Date received: 17 August 2026 to 24 November 2026
Date accepted: 17 August 2026
Donor status: company, registration 10894509
(Registered 17 August 2026)

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Google UK Ltd
Address of donor: 1 St. Giles High Street, London WC2H 8AG
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Travel, overnight stay and hospitality at Ditchley Park as part of the AI Parliamentary Scheme by Social Market Foundation, in partnership with Google, value £645.63
Date received: 2 September 2026
Date accepted: 2 September 2026
Donor status: company, registration 03977902
(Registered 10 September 2026)

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Doha Forum
Address of donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Almirqab Tower, West Bay, Doha, Qatar
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£5,581), food and accommodation (£404), value £5,985
Destination of visit: Qatar (Doha)
Dates of visit: 5 December 2025 to 8 December 2025
Purpose of visit: To participate in the Doha Forum 2025 on regional diplomacy and dialogue. Included meetings with Qatari ministers, ministers from other countries and key multilateral partners to discuss efforts to resolve regional conflicts. This visit is relevant to my role as a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
(Registered 16 December 2025)

8. Miscellaneous

Trustee of The Birmingham Settlement. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 15 July 2024)

Member, Rowley Regis Town Board. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 18 November 2025)

Member, Halesowen Abbey Trust Board. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 18 November 2025)

Written questions to government

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

Business costs (IPSA)

£234,986.06 paid out to or for Alex Ballinger 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 Alex Ballinger’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 — £159,119.41 (6 claims)

Office Costs — £49,845.47 (260 claims)

Accommodation — £18,537.60 (12 claims)

Miscellaneous — £3,060.00 (1 claim)

MP Travel — £2,753.28 (5 claims)

Staff Travel — £1,621.33 (5 claims)

Dependant Travel — £48.97 (1 claim)

Most recent claims

Utilities — £228.95, 2026-04-17 — Electricity

Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £84.14, 2026-04-05 — Landline & internet package

Business rates — £102.50, 2026-03-24 — HTTPS://WWW.DUDLEY.GOV [200013613-15215]

Training - staff — £1,140.00, 2026-03-20 — Paul Richards

Utilities — £324.61, 2026-03-19 — Electricity

Cleaning services — £144.00, 2026-03-02 — [***] [***] - 8 hours

Utilities — £77.12, 2026-02-25 — Water

Equipment - purchase — -£210.96, 2026-02-25 — Sundries

Every claim on file for Alex Ballinger →

Early Day Motions

No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Alex Ballinger — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Alex Ballinger’s full record.

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Alex Ballinger is a listed officer of 3 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces — Chair & Registered Contact

Declared funding: Thales (£7,500); Boeing Defence UK (£7,500); Saab UK (£7,500); Saab UK (£7,500) and 6 more.

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding — Chair & Registered Contact

Declared funding: Search For Common Ground (£15,001-16,500); Mercy Corps (£4,501-6,000).

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gambling Reform — Co-Chair

Declared funding: DGA Group (£16,501-18,000).

Who funds these groups

Biggest declared funder across these groups: James Gray, as Chair of the Armed Forces APPG in the previous Parliament — about £177,269.00 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces).

James Gray, as Chair of the Armed Forces APPG in the previous Parliament — about £177,269.00, 1 group

Saab UK — about £22,500.00, 1 group

DGA Group — about £17,250.50, 1 group

Search For Common Ground — about £15,750.50, 1 group

Leonardo — about £15,000.00, 1 group

Showing the top 5 of 10 funders.

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