Official portrait of Sir Ashley Fox

Sir Ashley Fox

Conservative MP for Bridgwater, since 4 July 2024

Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)

Sir Ashley Fox is the Conservative MP for Bridgwater, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. He currently undertakes the role of Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons).

Scorecard

77.0% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
407 Votes cast out of 575 divisions, plus 36 as teller
132 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
13 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Conservative MPs
3 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
247 Debates spoken in 376 written questions tabled

Ranked 235 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.3%. Ministers and front-benchers vote less often than backbenchers for reasons of office rather than absenteeism, and Parliament does not publish reasons for any absence — the ranking is a starting point for a question, not an answer to one.

Voting record

575 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
2 Jul 2025 Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2025 deferred division No 333–168
2 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 deferred division No vote 338–79
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Second Reading No 335–260
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Reasoned Amendment at Second Reading No vote 149–328
30 Jun 2025 Draft Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025 No vote 315–4
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading against party line Aye 314–291
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 94 against party line Aye 274–224
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77 against party line Aye 275–209
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 12 against party line No 223–269
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 24 against party line No 213–266
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 16 against party line No 208–261
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill: Third Reading No 312–95
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 130 Aye 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 121 Aye 114–310
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88 Aye 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43 Aye 147–305
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 Aye 102–390
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106 Aye 117–379
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 379–137
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 160 No 89–428
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 Aye 189–328
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 175 Aye 184–336
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 174 Aye 194–335
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 against party line No 259–216
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 against party line No 230–256

Declared financial interests

Quoted in full from the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Entries where the largest figure is £5,000 or more are marked. A declaration is not a wrongdoing — the register exists precisely so that these things are visible.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: Persimmon Homes Ltd
Address of donor: Persimmon House, Fulford, York YO19 4FE
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 to support the Read2Succeed Campaign 2025 - this is to purchase books for year 4 children.
Date received: 24 April 2026
Date accepted: 24 April 2026
Donor status: company, registration 04108747
(Registered 27 April 2026)

On the register since 29 Apr 2026

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Agratas Limited
Address of donor: 18 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Ticket to the SMMT annual dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, as a guest of Agratas, value £430
Date received: 25 November 2025
Date accepted: 25 November 2025
Donor status: company, registration 15069959
(Registered 27 November 2025)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital

Name of company or organisation: Ashley Fox Consulting Ltd
(Registered 19 July 2024)

On the register since 30 Jul 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

247 debates contributed to in total. The ten most recent:

Money declared to them

No donations to this member appear on the Electoral Commission's register for this Parliament. Only donations above the statutory thresholds have to be declared, and the match is made on name — search the register directly if you are checking a specific one.

Where the public money goes — contracts and donations →


Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence; donations from the Electoral Commission's register. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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