Official portrait of Jesse Norman

Jesse Norman

Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, since 6 May 2010

Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Rt Hon Jesse Norman is the Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.

Scorecard

63.9% Attendance Below the median of MPs who vote
377 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
213 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Conservative MPs
17 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
639 Debates spoken in 70 written questions tabled

Ranked 458 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.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
11 Sep 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading No 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion No 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 vote 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 Aye 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 Aye 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 Aye 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.

1. Employment and earnings

Payment: £739.15
Received on: 11 August 2026. Hours: 20 hrs Estimated 20-30 hours.
(Registered 12 August 2026)

On the register since 18 Aug 2026

Payment: £679.71
Received on: 23 June 2026. Hours: 20 hrs Estimated 20-30 hours.
(Registered 29 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

Payment: £178.35
Received on: 30 April 2026. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, The News Building, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF
(Registered 14 May 2026)

On the register since 19 May 2026

Payment: £159.87
Received on: 23 April 2026. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Penguin Books Ltd, One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW, UK
(Registered 27 April 2026)

On the register since 29 Apr 2026

Payment: £675.49
Received on: 30 September 2025. Hours: 10 hrs.
Donated to: a charity
(Registered 22 October 2025)

On the register since 4 Nov 2025

Payment: £253.31
Received on: 3 October 2025. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Penguin Books Ltd, Embassy Gardens. One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London, SW11 7BW
(Registered 20 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

Payment: £66.55
Received on: 9 October 2025. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, The News Building, 1 London Bridge St, London SE1 9GF
(Registered 20 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

Payment: £98.40
Received on: 16 October 2025. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Everyman's Library, Everyman's Library, 50 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BD
(Registered 20 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

Payment: £1,667
Received on: 18 September 2025. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Hayakawa Publishing Inc, 2-2 Kanda-tacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0046 Japan
(Registered 24 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

Role, work or services: Writing Books
Payer: Peters Fraser & Dunlop Ltd (Book Publisher), 55 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1BS

On the register since 26 Sep 2025

Role, work or services: Academic Work
Payer: Liberty Fund Inc (private educational foundation), 11301 N. Meridian Street, Carmel, IN 46032-4564, USA

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: The Political Thinker Ltd
Address of donor: 71 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BE
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Hotel accommodation (£963.57), meals, etc (£439.57), value £1,403.52
Destination of visit: Spain
Dates of visit: 26 March 2026 to 29 March 2026
Purpose of visit: Attending and speaking at a conference.
(Registered 20 April 2026)

On the register since 29 Apr 2026

Name of donor: Franco-British Colloque Ltd
Address of donor: Station House, Station Approach, East Horsley, Surrey KT24 6QX
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Food, transfer, and accommodation, value £1,125
Destination of visit: France
Dates of visit: 15 January 2026 to 17 January 2026
Purpose of visit: To attend the Franco-British Colloque 2026.
(Registered 2 February 2026)

On the register since 3 Feb 2026

£5,012

Name of donor: Istituto Bruno Leoni
Address of donor: Piazza Castello 23, 20121 Milan
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Travel (£543) and accommodation (£4,469), value £5,012
Destination of visit: France
Dates of visit: 5 September 2025 to 7 September 2025
Purpose of visit: Travel, accommodation and subsistence at a conference on Liberalism sponsored by the Istituto Bruno Leoni
(Registered 22 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

7. (ii) Other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000

Name of company or organisation: Genie International Toys
Nature of business: Toy design and manufacture
Additional information: Previously trading as Genie Toys PLC until 17 December 2017.
(Updated 31 January 2022)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

8. Miscellaneous

Chair of NMITE. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 17 January 2025
(Registered 12 March 2025)

On the register since 25 Mar 2025

Member of the Town Board for Hereford. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 23 January 2020
(Registered 5 February 2020)

On the register since 18 Apr 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £5,012 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
5 Sep 2025 Mr Jesse Norman MP sitting MP Istituto Bruno Leoni Other Visit £5,012

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 2 Oct 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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