UK Parliament · member 4444
Karin Smyth MP
- Party
- Labour — Labour Party
- Constituency
- Bristol South
- Member for this seat since
- 7 May 2015
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Karin Smyth, and how each was tied to them
Declared interests
MPs must register financial interests within 28 days. This is the register’s own text, republished verbatim from the official Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Registering an interest is a requirement met, not a finding against anyone.
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) - £315.00 (registered 19 June 2026)
Source: UK Parliament Register of Members’ Financial Interests API (Open Parliament Licence). Amounts are shown only where the register itself records one as a figure; nothing is parsed out of the free text.
Voting record
In the 464 recorded divisions where Karin Smyth and at least one other Labour member were recorded voting, Karin Smyth voted the same way as most voting Labour members 464 times (100.0%).
This compares Karin Smyth with other members of their own party who were recorded voting in the same division. It is not a measure of loyalty to a whip: Civometry holds no whipping records, so it cannot say which votes were whipped, and voting differently from party colleagues is not described here as a rebellion. Members not recorded in a division are excluded from the comparison rather than counted, because an absence from a division list is not a vote and does not mean the member was absent from the House.
Donations reported to the Electoral Commission
The register holds no donations reported against this name. Donations are matched on the regulated entity name exactly as the Electoral Commission publishes it; a member who reports under a different form of their name will not match here, and no similar name is substituted.
Source: Electoral Commission register of donations. Reporting thresholds apply, so this is not every sum given. A donation is a lawful, reported transaction; its presence here says nothing about why it was made and nothing about anything that followed it.
Staffing and business costs paid by IPSA
2025-26: £10,642 across 51 claim lines; 2024-25: £291,724 across 93 claim lines; 2023-24: £269,423 across 86 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 36 | £5,622 |
| 2025-26 | Accommodation | 5 | £2,770 |
| 2025-26 | Staffing | 10 | £2,250 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 3 | £237,127 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 20 | £27,774 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 59 | £17,542 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 3 | £5,626 |
| 2024-25 | Miscellaneous | 2 | £2,130 |
| 2024-25 | Staff Travel | 6 | £1,526 |
| 2023-24 | Staffing | 5 | £210,170 |
| 2023-24 | Office Costs | 61 | £27,988 |
| 2023-24 | Accommodation | 14 | £25,052 |
| 2023-24 | MP Travel | 1 | £3,877 |
| 2023-24 | Staff Travel | 4 | £1,424 |
| 2023-24 | Miscellaneous | 1 | £912 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2021 | MP Travel · Rail | Aggregated figure for travel during 2020-21 | £990 | Paid |
| 27 October 2015 | Office Costs · Professional Services | November Barclaycard Statemen — MY LONDON HOME Professional Services-Not Elsewhere Classified | £989 | Paid |
| 12 May 2016 | Office Costs · IT/Other Equipment Hire | Office Costs May — Photocopier Usage | £99 | Paid |
| 22 November 2016 | Office Costs · Newspapers/Journals | Dec office — Bristol Post subscription | £99 | Paid |
| 30 June 2022 | Office Costs · Waste disposal, confidential waste & rubbish collection | RESTORE DATASHRED | £98 | Paid |
| 29 June 2015 | Office Costs · Computer HW Purchase | Banner — Keyboard | £98 | Paid |
| 22 March 2019 | Office Costs · Bought-in services | Professional & consultancy — Professional Services - Mar 2019 | £975 | Paid |
| 18 December 2024 | Accommodation · Utilities | Electricity — OCTOPUS ENERGY LTD | £98 | Paid |
| 15 July 2020 | Office Costs · Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline — BT PAY BY PHONE | £98 | Paid |
| 24 September 2024 | Staffing · Training - staff | BENEFITS TRAINING CO. | £96 | Paid |
| 9 July 2022 | Office Costs · Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package — phone system | £96 | Paid |
| 7 August 2017 | Office Costs · IT/Other Equipment Hire | Office Costs — Photocopier | £96 | Paid |
| 13 May 2016 | Office Costs · Newspapers/Journals | Office Costs May — Newspaper Subscription | £95 | Paid |
| 9 June 2022 | Office Costs · Landline phone & internet - rental & usage | Landline & internet package — phone system | £95 | Paid |
| 29 November 2018 | Office Costs · Stationery Purchase | Banner — November Banner invoice for stationery | £95 | Paid |
Source: IPSA, MP staffing and business costs (Open Government Licence v3), joined on IPSA’s Parliamentary ID, which is Parliament’s member id. These are the running costs of an MP’s office and staff, claimed within IPSA’s rules and paid by IPSA; they are not the member’s salary and not personal income. A claim is a claim, not a finding. Staffing costs are published by IPSA in aggregate categories, not per employee.
Meetings recorded in departmental transparency returns
21 meetings recorded under this name as a minister in the quarterly returns of Department of Health and Social Care. The name in the department’s file matched exactly one member of the Commons, which is the only reason it is shown here.
Source: each department’s “ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings” return on GOV.UK (Open Government Licence v3), read by Civometry and listed under ministerial transparency. A recorded meeting establishes that the department published the line; it does not establish what was said or what followed. Every meeting is on the member’s graph page.
Sources on this page: UK Parliament Members API, Register of Members’ Financial Interests API and Commons Votes API (Open Parliament Licence); Electoral Commission register of donations; IPSA business costs. Each section links its own official record. This page assembles public registers and draws no conclusion from their appearing together.