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Sarah Pochin

Reform UK - Runcorn and Helsby

6 (0.0%) majority - 01-May-2025 By-election

First elected: 1st May 2025


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Sarah Pochin has no previous appointments


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Sarah Pochin has voted in 54 divisions, and 7 times against the majority of their Party.

16 May 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted No - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK No votes vs 3 Reform UK Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 243 Noes - 279
13 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted No - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK No votes vs 3 Reform UK Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 230 Noes - 256
13 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted No - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK No votes vs 3 Reform UK Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 233 Noes - 254
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK Aye votes vs 3 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 314 Noes - 291
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK Aye votes vs 3 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 274 Noes - 224
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK Aye votes vs 3 Reform UK No votes
Tally: Ayes - 275 Noes - 209
20 Jun 2025 - Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - View Vote Context
Sarah Pochin voted No - against a party majority and in line with the House
One of 2 Reform UK No votes vs 3 Reform UK Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 223 Noes - 269
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.

Sparring Partners
Keir Starmer (Labour)
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
(3 debate interactions)
David Lammy (Labour)
Foreign Secretary
(2 debate interactions)
Chris Murray (Labour)
(1 debate interactions)
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Department Debates
Home Office
(3 debate contributions)
Wales Office
(2 debate contributions)
Cabinet Office
(1 debate contributions)
Ministry of Justice
(1 debate contributions)
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Runcorn and Helsby Petitions

e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.

If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.

If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).

Sarah Pochin has not participated in any petition debates

Latest EDMs signed by Sarah Pochin

4th June 2025
Sarah Pochin signed this EDM as a sponsor on Thursday 5th June 2025

Mauritius Treaty (No. 2)

Tabled by: Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice - North Antrim)
That this House believes the Mauritius Treaty should not pass because completing the decolonisation of Mauritius cannot be achieved without reference to the people of the Chagos islands (See: UN 742 VII, 1953) who have not been afforded a voice in the treaty negotiations; observes that the Mauritian government cannot …
9 signatures
(Most recent: 9 Jun 2025)
Signatures by party:
Democratic Unionist Party: 3
Traditional Unionist Voice: 1
Reform UK: 1
Independent: 1
Ulster Unionist Party: 1
Labour: 1
Conservative: 1
4th June 2025
Sarah Pochin signed this EDM on Thursday 5th June 2025

Mauritius Treaty

Tabled by: Kemi Badenoch (Conservative - North West Essex)
That the Agreement, done at London and Port Louis on 22 May 2025, between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago including Diego Garcia, should not be ratified.
95 signatures
(Most recent: 17 Jun 2025)
Signatures by party:
Conservative: 82
Reform UK: 5
Democratic Unionist Party: 3
Independent: 2
Traditional Unionist Voice: 1
Ulster Unionist Party: 1
Labour: 1
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Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Sarah Pochin, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.


Sarah Pochin has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Sarah Pochin has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

Sarah Pochin has not introduced any legislation before Parliament

Sarah Pochin has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 16 Written Questions

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Written Questions can be tabled by MPs and Lords to request specific information information on the work, policy and activities of a Government Department
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken Watchlist and Information Control Unit checks on all asylum applications in the last 10 years.

When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic and international data.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police National Computer checks have been carried out on all asylum applicants in the last 10 years.

When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic and international data.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what background checks her Department conducts on irregular migrants applying for asylum.

When an individual claims asylum, the Home Office conducts mandatory identity, criminality and security checks. Biographic and biometric data are routinely checked against relevant Home Office systems and police criminality databases including domestic and international data.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the staff sickness rate for Asylum Decision Makers employed by the Home Office was (a) on 3 June 2025 and (b) in each of the last five years.

Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year.

The training schedule for asylum decision-makers was revised in 2023, with the initial training period reduced from nine weeks to around three weeks, with further specialist training provided as the decision-maker progresses. As a general rule, asylum decision-makers will complete their initial training period prior to taking on casework.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Asylum Decision Makers left their role after (a) three, (b) six and (c) nine months in post.

Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year.

The training schedule for asylum decision-makers was revised in 2023, with the initial training period reduced from nine weeks to around three weeks, with further specialist training provided as the decision-maker progresses. As a general rule, asylum decision-makers will complete their initial training period prior to taking on casework.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the standard training period is for Asylum Decision Makers employed by her Department; and whether this period has changed in the last 10 years.

Details of sickness absence and staff turnover are routinely published by the Home Office in the department’s annual report and accounts, but are not broken down by the individual tasks to which members of staff have been assigned over the previous year.

The training schedule for asylum decision-makers was revised in 2023, with the initial training period reduced from nine weeks to around three weeks, with further specialist training provided as the decision-maker progresses. As a general rule, asylum decision-makers will complete their initial training period prior to taking on casework.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the highest number of further submissions was for an asylum application in last ten years.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the longest recorded duration is for an asylum application to remain in the further submissions process without conclusion.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants have absconded while their asylum applications were being considered in the last 10 years.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of considering asylum applications at the further submissions stage in each of the last five years.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular mirgrants (a) have been convicted of criminal offences and (b) were awaiting sentencing on 3 June 2025.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants who have (a) been refused asylum and (b) are at the further submissions stage were in receipt of legal aid on 3 June 2025; and what the total cost was for the provision of legal aid for such irregular migrants in each of the last four years.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants who have (a) been refused asylum and (b) are undergoing the further submissions process were living in accommodation paid for by her Department on 3 June 2025; and what the total cost of providing accommodation to those irregular migrants was in each of the last four years.

I welcome the Hon Member to her new role, and I wish her well representing the great people of Runcorn and Helsby.

The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: “There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850.”

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are housed in hotels in (a) Runcorn and Helsby constituency and (b) Cheshire county.

The requested data is not available at constituency level, but data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, including hotels, broken down by local authority, is routinely published within the Asy_D11 tab of our regular immigration system statistical release, the latest version of which can be found here: Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)
3rd Jun 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applications have reached the further submissions stage and have been under consideration at that stage for (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months, (d) 12 months, (e) 18 months and (f) 24 months.

The Cabinet Office's Guide to Parliamentary Work states that: "There is an advisory cost limit known as the disproportionate cost threshold which is the level above which departments can decide not to answer a written question. The current disproportionate cost threshold is £850."

I regret that the information she has requested is not currently available from published statistics, and would require a manual trawl of case files to identify and collate, something that could only be done at disproportionate cost.

Angela Eagle
Minister of State (Home Office)