Amanda Martin.

A steady, loyal Labour backbencher, Amanda Martin has not broken with her party on a single vote since entering parliament in 2024. Her most recent activity includes supporting the government's carbon budget, backing streamlined planning rules that remove councillors' power over small housing applications, and voting to end the automatic preference for academies when opening new schools. None of these represent departures from the Labour line — she is a 100% party-line voter across 482 recorded votes.

Her participation rate of 85% sits comfortably above the Commons average. The pattern across her voting record is consistent government support: strongly aligned on fiscal responsibility and workers' rights, but low scores on parliamentary scrutiny (13%) and Lords oversight (4%), suggesting she routinely backs the government against opposition attempts to constrain its agenda. She speaks frequently — 381 contributions across 239 debates — with economy and jobs dominating, followed by defence, local government, social care, and health. Her voting record deviates from her party average most notably on assisted dying, where she sits 28 percentage points above colleagues in favouring access.

Beyond Westminster, her most prominent recent coverage centres on constituency investment — a £40m community fund, £11.5m for disabled residents into work, £1m for a veterans outreach centre, and £1.56m for a new SEND service in Portsmouth. She is credited in local reporting with actively backing these bids and hosting ministerial visits to secure them. Her two current committee roles are both private bill committees (General Cemetery Bill and Norwich Livestock Market Bill), with no seat on a major select committee. News sentiment data for the past 90 days is mixed, with SEND and crime coverage slightly positive and planning and culture coverage neutral.