Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy · Member 5240
Melanie Ward
Official record: members.parliament.uk.
IPSA basic MP salary
£98,599
Effective 1 Apr 2026
RMFI entries
5
Register 820
EC donations matched
4
Fuzzy name match — not RMFI
Member since
4 Jul 2024
Contact
Published on the Members API contact endpoint. Missing email, phone or street address is shown as unavailable — Watchtower does not invent contact details. Almost every sitting MP lists the House of Commons; a constituency street address is often omitted.
Phone
Phone not published
Addresses
Constituency office
287-289 High Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 1JH
Website and social
Official record: members.parliament.uk contact page · Methodology.
Source: UK Parliament Members API (contact). As of 14 Sept 2026.
Salary
IPSA basic MP salary
£98,599
Annual · effective 1 Apr 2026
Source: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) — MPs’ pay & pensions. As of 1 Apr 2026.
Additional office salary
Not assigned
Ministers, opposition office-holders and select committee chairs may receive a further official salary. This snapshot does not reliably join those posts to named members, so we do not add a guessed uplift.
How the rate is documented: Parliament methodology.
Councils overlapping this seat
No overlapping England councils in this snapshot
“Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy” did not match any GE 2024 overlapping seat on the England CTYUA / unitary / London borough rows. That is expected for seats outside England, or when the Members constituency name does not join the Library seat name.
Source: UK Parliament Members API (committed snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.
Money trail
Register of Members’ Financial Interests
Full register on this page5
published entries · register 820 · as of 7 Sept 2026
- Visits outside the UK4
- Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
Explain this numberRegister of Members’ Financial Interests
Entries the MP has declared in the latest published Commons RMFI. It is a self-declared parliamentary register of interests and gifts above thresholds — not a full income statement.
- Not all income appears here; thresholds and categories apply.
- Electoral Commission donations are a different legal register and are shown separately on the MP page.
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Electoral Commission donations
Matched rows below4
PEF rows fuzzy-matched to this MP · as of 13 Sept 2026
£5,957 · Visit from Doha Forum
Accepted 5 Dec 2025 · match high (1) · V0834262
£2,246 · Visit from Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz gGm
Accepted 29 Sept 2025 · match high (1) · V0833953
£3,482 · Visit from Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz gGm
Accepted 16 Sept 2025 · match high (1) · V0833965
£5,955 · Visit from Doha Forum
Accepted 6 Dec 2024 · match high (1) · V0594152
Explain this numberElectoral Commission donations
Regulated donations to this MP as a donee under political finance law (PEF), fuzzy-matched by name from the Electoral Commission register for the current-Parliament window in this snapshot.
- Not the Commons Register of Members’ Financial Interests — a separate legal register.
- Match confidence is labelled. Low-confidence rows are shown so you can reject them; they are not identity proof.
- Amounts come only from the PEF CSV. We do not invent donation figures.
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026.
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..
Register of Members’ Financial Interests (deep dive)
Latest Commons register published 7 Sept 2026. This is the parliamentary register — not the Electoral Commission donations file. See How money registers work.
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Great Britain China Centre - £1,100.00
£1,100 · Registered 24 Nov 2025 · Official entry
Visits outside the UK
International visit to Syria between 29 June 2026 and 02 July 2026
Registered 7 Jul 2026 · Official entry
International visit to Qatar between 05 December 2025 and 08 December 2025
Registered 19 Dec 2025 · Official entry
International visit to Saudi Arabia between 30 September 2025 and 03 October 2025
Registered 23 Oct 2025 · Official entry
International visit to United States between 17 September 2025 and 21 September 2025
Registered 13 Oct 2025 · Official entry
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Electoral Commission donations (separate from RMFI)
PEF donations to regulated donees, fuzzy-matched on name to this sitting MP. Confidence is labelled. A low-confidence row is not a confirmed identity. This is not a copy of category 2 of the Commons register.
£5,957 · Visit from Doha Forum
Accepted 5 Dec 2025 · match high (1) to “Melanie Ward” · V0834262
£2,246 · Visit from Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz gGm
Accepted 29 Sept 2025 · match high (1) to “Melanie Ward” · V0833953
£3,482 · Visit from Stiftung Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz gGm
Accepted 16 Sept 2025 · match high (1) to “Melanie Ward” · V0833965
£5,955 · Visit from Doha Forum
Accepted 6 Dec 2024 · match high (1) to “Melanie Ward” · V0594152
Search the Electoral Commission register directly
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..