East Surrey.

Claire Coutinho is the Conservatives' Shadow Energy Secretary, and that role defines her parliamentary activity right now. She has been pressing the government on North Sea oil and gas development, publicly arguing that blocking new licences is "sheer lunacy" as constituents face surging energy bills. She also co-signed a letter to the Energy Security Secretary demanding mandatory price transparency and a Competition and Markets Authority investigation into heating oil costs -- a direct response to rural East Surrey households off the gas grid. Most recently, she voted to refer Prime Minister Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Mandelson appointment, backing an opposition push for an independent scrutiny of potentially misleading statements to the House.

Her parliamentary record is consistent with her frontbench brief: energy, economy, and environment dominate her 126 contributions across 47 debates, and her stance scores show strong alignment with pro-business (94%) and pro-parliamentary-scrutiny (90%) positions. She votes with the Conservative whip 100% of the time -- no rebel votes on record -- but her recent votes have repeatedly backed Lords amendments against the government on the Pension Schemes Bill, the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, and the Crime and Policing Bill, using ping-pong votes as an opposition tool to frustrate government legislation. Her participation rate of 55% sits below the Commons average, though frontbench roles typically compress voting attendance.

One notable deviation from her party average is a markedly stronger lean toward local democracy (+50 percentage points above the Conservative average), which may reflect constituency pressures in East Surrey. News coverage over the past 90 days is extensive -- 112 articles -- but average sentiment is low (0.13), driven largely by crime and local-government stories where her direct involvement appears limited. No committee memberships are currently recorded.