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

48.7% Attendance In the least-present tenth of MPs who vote
280 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
295 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 6 at £5,000 or more
241 Debates spoken in 141 written questions tabled

Ranked 582 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
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Hospitality sector Aye 158–334
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Property taxes Aye 98–335
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Second Reading No 365–164
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Reasoned Amendment Aye 167–367
16 Jul 2025 Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 737) deferred division No vote 333–54
16 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 deferred division No vote 334–54
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Tax Aye 165–342
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Welfare Aye 106–440
11 Jul 2025 Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Report: Amendment 1 No vote 0–47
11 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–58
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Third Reading No 336–242
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 38 No vote 149–334
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 No 130–443
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 45 Aye 175–401
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Clause 2, as amended, and Clause 3 stand part No vote 335–135
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 12 No vote 105–370
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 50 Aye 103–416
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39 No 35–469
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL]: Third Reading No 415–98
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: Amendment 18 Aye 178–338
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 3 No vote 86–340
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 1 Aye 167–346
4 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–33
2 Jul 2025 Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 Aye 385–26
2 Jul 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to insist on 2A and disagree with LA2B and LA2C No vote 321–158

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)

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

Name of donor: Charles Max Keymer
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500
Date received: 23 July 2025
Date accepted: 23 July 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 27 July 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

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: 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 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: 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

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

10 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £74,270 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
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 of Peckham 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 3 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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