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Sir Mel Stride

Conservative MP for Central Devon, since 6 May 2010

The Rt Hon Sir Mel Stride is the Conservative MP for Central Devon, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010.

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Scorecard

55.4% Attendance Below the median of MPs who vote

327 Votes cast out of 590 divisions

263 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend

5 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Conservative MPs

27 Interests declared 9 at £5,000 or more

542 Debates spoken in 131 written questions tabled

Ranked 547 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.4%. 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

590 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

Date	Question	Their vote	Result
11 Sep 2026	Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading against party line	Aye	270–286
11 Sep 2026	Closure motion against party line	Aye	293–218
10 Sep 2026	Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading	No vote	77–292
9 Sep 2026	Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division	No	371–100
8 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1	No vote	162–297
8 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143	No vote	106–302
8 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142	No vote	108–357
8 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140	No vote	79–300
7 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145	No vote	170–316
7 Sep 2026	Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6	No vote	77–317
4 Sep 2026	Motion to sit in private	No vote	1–79
2 Sep 2026	Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading	No	411–102
2 Sep 2026	Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88	No	85–427
2 Sep 2026	Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67	Aye	105–410
2 Sep 2026	Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65	Aye	166–346
15 Jul 2026	Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division	No	330–109
15 Jul 2026	Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division	No	330–109
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19	No vote	104–412
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199	No vote	102–409
14 Jul 2026	Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3	No vote	93–323
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading	No vote	264–90
13 Jul 2026	Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading	No vote	97–358
8 Jul 2026	Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division	No	283–182
8 Jul 2026	Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division	No	317–103
8 Jul 2026	Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division	No	369–102

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. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

£25,000

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)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

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

£5,000

Name of donor: Robert Derek Calrow
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000 political activity
Date received: 17 June 2026
Date accepted: 17 June 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 15 July 2026)