Official portrait of Laura Trott

Laura Trott

Conservative MP for Sevenoaks, since 12 December 2019

Shadow Secretary of State for Education

The Rt Hon Laura Trott is the Conservative MP for Sevenoaks, and has been an MP continually since 12 December 2019. She currently undertakes the role of Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

Scorecard

49.0% Attendance In the least-present tenth of MPs who vote
289 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
301 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
4 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Conservative MPs
16 Interests declared 7 at £5,000 or more
243 Debates spoken in 148 written questions tabled

Ranked 581 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 vote 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion No vote 293–218
10 Sep 2026 Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading Aye 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 Aye 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 Aye 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 Aye 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 vote 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division No vote 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 No vote 97–358
8 Jul 2026 Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 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 vote 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 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

Role, work or services: Speaking Engagement
Payer: Coex Partners (Speaking engagement for 8 hours), 135 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TP
(Registered 28 November 2025)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

£6,000

Payment: £6,000
Received on: 6 November 2025. Hours: 8 hrs Speaking Engagement.
(Registered 28 November 2025)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

Role, work or services: Speaking Engagement
From: 21 October 2025. Until: 22 October 2025.
Payer: Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA), First Floor (129) 40 Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 0BT
(Registered 3 November 2025)

On the register since 4 Nov 2025

£6,000

Payment: £6,000 Speech to ACA Annual Dinner
Received on: 22 October 2025. Hours: 16 hrs.
(Registered 3 November 2025)

On the register since 4 Nov 2025

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

£10,000

Name of donor: Lord Fink
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000 (Previously published under Category 2(b) )
Donor status: individual
(Registered 11 June 2025; updated 18 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

£25,000

Name of donor: Lord [Philip] Harris
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £25,000 (Previously published under Category 2(b) )
Donor status: individual
(Registered 18 July 2025; updated 18 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

£10,000

Name of donor: Lord Agnew
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000 (Previously published under Category 2(b) )
Donor status: individual
(Registered 28 November 2025; updated 18 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

Name of donor: Sophie Smith
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,000 for staff support (Previously published under Category 2(b) )
Donor status: individual
(Registered 22 January 2026; updated 19 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

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

£30,000

Name of donor: Lord (Philip) Harris
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £30,000 (paid in monthly donations of £2,500)
Date received: 15 July 2026
Date accepted: 15 July 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 28 July 2026)

On the register since 18 Aug 2026

Name of donor: The Knole Club
Address of donor: Private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,000
Date received: 14 April 2026
Date accepted: 14 April 2026
Donor status: unincorporated association
(Registered 5 May 2026)

On the register since 19 May 2026

£5,000

Name of donor: Charles Max Keyner
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Date received: 27 March 2026
Date accepted: 27 March 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 29 March 2026)

On the register since 14 Apr 2026

Name of donor: Lord John Nash
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000
Date received: 19 August 2025
Date accepted: 19 August 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 4 September 2025)

On the register since 17 Sep 2025

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: National Theatre
Address of donor: Upper Ground London SE1 9PX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 2 x tickets to War Horse £92 each, value £184
Date received: 4 July 2026
Date accepted: 4 July 2026
Donor status: company, registration 749504
(Registered 10 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

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: 2 tickets to Wimbledon on Tuesday 7 July, value £510
Date received: 7 July 2026
Date accepted: 7 July 2026
Donor status: unincorporated association
(Registered 10 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

Name of donor: National Theatre
Address of donor: Upper Ground. South Bank, London SE1 9PX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets for a performance of Hamlet, value £138
Date received: 19 November 2025
Date accepted: 19 November 2025
Donor status: company, registration 749504
(Registered 4 December 2025)

On the register since 16 Dec 2025

4. Visits outside the UK

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 and accommodation and transfers, value £1,119
Destination of visit: France
Dates of visit: 15 January 2025 to 17 January 2025
Purpose of visit: Franco-British Colloque 2026
(Registered 9 February 2026)

On the register since 24 Feb 2026

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Debates

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

Money declared to them

11 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £104,270 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
15 Jul 2026 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Lord Philip Harris Individual Non Cash Other £30k
14 Apr 2026 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP The Knole Club Unincorporated Association Cash £4,000
27 Mar 2026 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Charles Max Keymer Individual Cash £5,000
20 Dec 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Sophie Smith Individual Non Cash Staff costs £4,000
20 Nov 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Lord Agnew Individual Cash £10k
19 Aug 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Lord John Nash Individual Cash £3,000
23 Jul 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Charles Max Keymer Individual Cash £2,500
14 Jul 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Lord Philip Harris Individual Cash £25k
5 Jun 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Lord Fink Individual Cash £10k
20 Jan 2025 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Charles Max Keymer Individual Cash £2,500
20 Sep 2024 Mrs Laura Trott sitting MP Alan Burke Individual Cash £8,270

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 1 Oct 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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