Official portrait of Tom Rutland

Tom Rutland

Labour MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, since 4 July 2024

Tom Rutland is the Labour MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

82.4% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
474 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
101 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
1 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
6 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
69 Debates spoken in 27 written questions tabled

Ranked 134 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
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 14 No 233–254
11 Jun 2025 Draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 deferred division Aye 350–176
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Third Reading Aye 306–174
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 114 No 78–309
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 85 No 107–314
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 22 No 73–312
10 Jun 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill: Motion to insist on disagreement to LA49 and make (a) to (e) in lieu Aye 304–189
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: Amendment 69 No 180–307
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: Amendment 15 No 73–323
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43 No 167–334
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 39 No 113–335
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Third Reading Aye 264–99
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 24 No 164–273
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 16 No 100–339
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 4 No 171–274
3 Jun 2025 Motion to Disagree with the Lords in their Amendment 49F (Data Use and Access Bill) Aye 317–185
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Government amendment (a) in lieu of Lords Amendments 2 and 3 Aye 329–101
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 315–184
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 319–180
22 May 2025 Data Use and Access Bill: motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 49D No vote 195–124
21 May 2025 Opposition Day: Immigration No 83–267
21 May 2025 Opposition Day: Business and the economy No 88–253
16 May 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10 No 243–279
16 May 2025 Closure motion Aye 288–239
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 52 Aye 366–98

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.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality to the HSBC Championships, value £730
Date received: 14 June 2026
Date accepted: 14 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 9 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

Name of donor: Ticketmaster UK Limited
Address of donor: 30 St. John Street, London EC1M 4AY
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to concert and tour of Co-op Live venue, including hospitality (£169 per ticket £338 total), one train ticket (£114.00) and one hotel room (£211.90), value £663.90
Date received: 8 October 2025
Date accepted: 8 October 2025
Donor status: company, registration 02662632
(Registered 4 November 2025)

On the register since 18 Nov 2025

Name of donor: GMB Trade Union
Address of donor: Mary Turner House, 22 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 4 nights of accommodation at Labour Party Conference, value £1,800
Date received: 20 September 2025 to 24 September 2025
Date accepted: 20 September 2025
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 7 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

Name of donor: BBC
Address of donor: Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to Wimbledon (value: £120 each), value £240
Date received: 3 July 2025
Date accepted: 3 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration RC000057
(Registered 21 July 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

Name of donor: BBC
Address of donor: Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with hospitality to BBC Proms (£121.50 each), value £243
Date received: 11 September 2024
Date accepted: 11 September 2024
Donor status: company, registration RC000057
(Registered 21 July 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Unpaid director of [redacted] Management Company, a property management company.
Date interest ended: 30 June 2026
(Registered 30 July 2024; updated 9 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £2,500 in total — from the Electoral Commission's register, which is a separate register from the one above. Money given to their party is not counted here; this is money declared to them.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
11 Apr 2025 Tom Rutland sitting MP Sonali Siriwardena Individual Cash £2,500

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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