Sir Mel Stride
MP since 6 May 2010
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The Rt Hon Sir Mel Stride is the Conservative MP for Central Devon, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1849
Votes Cast
N/A
Expenses
61
Majority
31.5%
Vote Share
Expenses
No expense data available.
Election Result(2024 General Election)
Turnout: 53,432 voters
Parliamentary Activity
Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)
129
Written Questions
0
Oral Questions
54
Debates Spoken In⚑
284
Speeches⚑
327
Divisions Voted
⚑Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.
Voting Record
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4 AYECrime and Policing Bill Report Stage
4 votes · 18 Jun 2025
Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage
4 votes · 18 Jun 2025
4 AYE2 NOCrime and Policing Bill Report Stage
6 votes · 17 Jun 2025
Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage
6 votes · 17 Jun 2025
3 NOArmed Forces Commissioner Bill
3 votes · 3 Jun 2025
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
3 votes · 3 Jun 2025
2 AYEOpposition Day
2 votes · 21 May 2025
Opposition Day
2 votes · 21 May 2025
3 NOData (Use and Access) Bill CCLM
3 votes · 14 May 2025
Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM
3 votes · 14 May 2025
1 AYE1 NOOpposition Day
2 votes · 13 May 2025
Opposition Day
2 votes · 13 May 2025
Financial Interests(10)
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
£25,000 support towards staff salary
£25,000
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
£25,000 support towards staff salary
- Name of donor
- J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
- Address of donor
- Lakeside Works, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5JP
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £25,000 support towards staff salary
- Donor status
- company, registration 00561597
Registered 24 March 2025
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
£25,000 for the provision of staff
£25,000
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
£25,000 for the provision of staff
- Name of donor
- J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
- Address of donor
- Lakeside Works, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5JP
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £25,000 for the provision of staff
- Donor status
- company, registration 00561597
Registered 20 November 2025
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
IPGL Limited
£25,000 support towards staff salary
£25,000
(a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
IPGL Limited
£25,000 support towards staff salary
- Name of donor
- IPGL Limited
- Address of donor
- 3rd Floor, 39 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom SW1X 9LP
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £25,000 support towards staff salary
- Donor status
- company, registration 09064598
Registered 24 March 2025
Visits outside the UK
Parliamentary Adviser
£11,000
Visits outside the UK
Parliamentary Adviser
- Name of donor
- Graham Edwards
- Address of donor
- private
- Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation)
- £11,000 trip to USA and accompanied by Parliamentary Adviser. Donation received 12 September 2025
- Destination of visit
- United States
- Dates of visit
- 6 September 2025 to 10 September 2025
- Purpose of visit
- Economic research and business visits
Registered 30 September 2025
(b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Graham Edwards
£4,000 policy research/visits
12 September 2025
£4,000
(b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
Graham Edwards
£4,000 policy research/visits
12 September 2025
- Name of donor
- Graham Edwards
- Address of donor
- private
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- £4,000 policy research/visits
- Date received
- 12 September 2025
- Date accepted
- 12 September 2025
- Donor status
- individual
Registered 30 September 2025
Activity Pulse
Questions asked and motions sponsored by Sir in Parliament
Social Security Benefits: Disability and Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to implement the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 15 March 2023.
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to make changes to the Access to Work scheme.
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, what steps she plans to take to reform Personal
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024, whether (a) a regulatory impact assessment, (b) an equality impact assessme
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 12 August 2024, to Question HL421 on Employment, whether a strengthened equality impact assessment has been produced for
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Explanatory Memorandum on the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024, what was the (a) evidential basis was and (b)
Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of each round of the Household Support Fund has been spent on (a) energy support, (b) pensioner households and (c) ene
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the (a) introduction of means-testing for Winter Fuel Payments and (b) Pension Cre
Pensioners: Household Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) data and (b) other information her Department provides to local authorities to identify pensioner households which could be eligible for s
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to p.9 of the policy document entitled Fixing the Foundations, published on 29 July 2024, what discussions her Department had with the Office for
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