MP WATCH · SUSSEX-WIDE COMPARISON
A transparent activity dashboard for the 17 Sussex MPs. It measures what Parliament actually publishes — and explicitly refuses to invent physical-attendance or constituency-attendance figures that do not exist as a complete official dataset.
James MacCleary
586 written questions among the comparable 2024 first-time cohort.
Jess Brown-Fuller
267 Hansard contribution entries among the comparable cohort.
No overall award yet.
Same-day verification is still being completed for every member before percentage-style ranking.
No invented figures.
Physical Westminster/constituency presence cannot be established from a complete official attendance register.
These MPs entered the Commons at the same election, making their cumulative public records broadly comparable. Ministers are flagged because ministerial duties change how questions and Commons contributions work.
| MP / constituency | Role | Written questions | Hansard contribution entries* | Recorded votes | Qualification | Parliament sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helena Dollimore Hastings & Rye | Backbencher | 41 | 94 | 422 | — | Q · H · V |
| Siân Berry Brighton Pavilion | Backbencher | 398 | 152 | 459 | — | Q · H · V |
| Tom RutlandWATCH focus East Worthing & Shoreham | Backbencher | 27 | 69 | 474 | No recorded Commons vote in seven consecutive divisions after 14 July 2026; reason not established. | Q · H · V |
| Dr Beccy Cooper Worthing West | Backbencher | 161 | 66 | 429 | — | Q · H · V |
| Alison Griffiths Bognor Regis & Littlehampton | Backbencher | 231 | 109 | 423 | — | Q · H · V |
| Chris Ward Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven | Government minister | 22 | 58 | 421 | Ministerial role materially changes question/speaking patterns; excluded from simple overall comparison. | Q · H · V |
| Jess Brown-Fuller Chichester | Backbencher | 456 | 267 | 409 | — | Q · H · V |
| James MacCleary Lewes | Backbencher | 586 | 126 | 355 | — | Q · H · V |
| Josh Babarinde Eastbourne | Backbencher | 274 | 212 | — | Voting total awaiting same-day re-verification before ranking. | Q · H · V |
| John Milne Horsham | Backbencher | 241 | 178 | 389 | — | Q · H · V |
| Peter Lamb Crawley | Backbencher | 93 | 53 | 430 | — | Q · H · V |
| Alison Bennett Mid Sussex | Backbencher | 247 | 240 | 413 | — | Q · H · V |
The Parliament member pages display career totals. Those totals are useful background but must not be ranked directly against MPs first elected in 2024. WATCH Sussex will add a 4 July 2024–present normalised view before publishing an experienced-MP league position.
| MP / constituency | Role | Written questions | Hansard contribution entries* | Recorded votes | Qualification | Parliament sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Griffith Arundel & South Downs | Experienced MP | 656 | 328 | 1,307 | Displayed totals are career totals and are not ranked against the 2024 first-time cohort. | Q · H · V |
| Mims Davies East Grinstead & Uckfield | Experienced MP | 474 | 636 | — | Career totals; current-Parliament normalisation in progress. | Q · H · V |
| Dr Kieran Mullan Bexhill & Battle | Experienced MP | 442 | 381 | — | Career totals; current-Parliament normalisation in progress. | Q · H · V |
| Nusrat Ghani Sussex Weald | Experienced MP | 196 | 1,176 | — | Career totals; current-Parliament normalisation in progress. | Q · H · V |
| Peter Kyle Hove & Portslade | Government minister / experienced MP | 963 | — | — | Career written-question total is not directly comparable; ministerial role also changes activity profile. | Q · H · V |
Membership alone is not attendance. We will score committee activity only where minutes, attendance lists or equivalent primary records show that an MP attended. The Works of Art Committee strand concerning Tom Rutland remains part of this verification work.
There is no complete public turnstile-style register showing how many days every MP physically entered Westminster, and no official register of days spent in each constituency. Social-media posts are not an attendance register. We may publish a separately labelled publicly evidenced constituency activity measure later, but not pretend it is physical attendance.
* Parliament says its contribution counts can be approximate. A "contribution entry" can represent a debate containing one or more speeches, interventions, questions, supplementary questions, points of order or — for ministers — answers. Recorded voting totals also do not explain why a member did not vote in a particular division. Absence, abstention, pairing, constituency work, ministerial work or other reasons may apply.
Source key: Q = written questions · H = Hansard spoken contributions · V = voting record.
The earlier Tom Rutland-only 11-MP output/cost comparison and interim VFM model are historical only. WATCH Sussex now publishes one constituency-first 35/25/25/15 assessment across all 17 Sussex MPs.
