Sam Carling
Labour North West Cambridgeshire
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.
See Sam Carling’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →
Every Commons division on file for Sam Carling — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 526 of 590 (89%).
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 Sam Carling — 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 Sam Carling →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Name of donor: Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd
Address of donor: Burghley Estate Office, 61 St. Martins, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2LQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two sets of tickets (one for me and one for a member of my staff) to attend a formal lunch and show jumping event at the 2025 Burghley House Trials in my constituency, value £561
Date received: 7 September 2025
Date accepted: 7 September 2025
Donor status: trust (Company Number 00951524)
(Registered 26 November 2025)
Name of donor: Burghley House Preservation Trust Ltd
Address of donor: Burghley Estate Office, 61 St. Martins, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2LQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of an informal lunch for me and a member of my staff as part of a visit to discuss the work of the Burghley House Preservation Trust, value £27.50
Date received: 19 September 2025
Date accepted: 19 September 2025
Donor status: trust (Company Number 00951524)
(Registered 26 November 2025)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working lunch discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 30 June 2026
Date accepted: 30 June 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 30 July 2026)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 2 March 2026
Date accepted: 2 March 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 31 July 2026)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 20 January 2026
Date accepted: 20 January 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 31 July 2026)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 18 May 2026
Date accepted: 18 May 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 31 July 2026)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 29 June 2026
Date accepted: 29 June 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 31 July 2026)
Name of donor: Parliamentary and Scientific Committee APPG
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Cost of my meal at a working dinner discussing science policy, value £65
Date received: 8 September 2026
Date accepted: 8 September 2026
Donor status: other (APPG account)
(Registered 8 September 2026)
Cambridge City Councillor, (unpaid since 18 July 2024 and previously registered under Category 1)
Date interest ended: 21 March 2025
(Registered 29 June 2024; updated 28 October 2025)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Sam Carling yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Sam Carling has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£165,778.51 paid out to or for Sam Carling across 105 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 Sam Carling’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 Sam Carling — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Sam Carling’s full record.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Sam Carling is a listed officer of 2 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.
Biggest declared funder across these groups: Institute of Physics — about £5,250.00 across 1 group (Parliamentary and Scientific Committee (an All-Party Parliamentary Group)).
Showing the top 5 of 15 funders.
Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Sam Carling personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Sam Carling 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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