Louth and Horncastle.

Atkins is most visibly active right now as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs -- a role that shapes almost everything she does in Parliament. She broke from the Conservative majority four times on two major free votes, backing the assisted dying bill at both its Second and Third Readings and supporting the Tobacco and Vapes Bill through both its Commons stages. The tobacco votes are the sharpest deviation: most Conservative MPs opposed the bill, but Atkins, a former Health Secretary, backed the smokefree generation policy she had championed in government. Outside free votes, she has been vocal on farmers' inheritance tax, challenging the government in Parliament and appearing on agricultural media platforms to oppose the policy.

Her parliamentary participation sits at 60% -- below the Commons average -- though her 148 speech contributions across 39 debates suggest she is selective rather than disengaged. Environment, agriculture, and the economy dominate her speaking record, consistent with her frontbench brief. She votes with the Conservative party line 98.7% of the time on whipped votes, and her stance profile reflects orthodox Conservative economics: consistently opposing employer National Insurance rises, workers' rights legislation, and progressive taxation. She scores 100% on pro-Lords-scrutiny votes, backing the upper chamber's amendments to the English Devolution and Pension Schemes Bills against the government.

Her strongest policy deviation from her own party is on public health, where she sits 31 percentage points above the Conservative average -- a direct legacy of her time as Health Secretary. Local news coverage over the past 90 days is high in volume but largely incidental to her work; the most substantive stories tie to rural cost-of-living and farming policy. No committee memberships are recorded for the current period.