Official portrait of Matt Vickers

Matt Vickers

Conservative MP for Stockton West, since 12 December 2019

Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire)

Matt Vickers is the Conservative MP for Stockton West, and has been an MP continually since 12 December 2019. He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire).

Scorecard

68.9% Attendance Below the median of MPs who vote
396 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
179 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
4 Interests declared 2 at £5,000 or more
276 Debates spoken in 1408 written questions tabled

Ranked 388 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
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 No vote 152–337
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 30 No 77–390
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 9 Aye 104–317
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 6 Aye 167–313
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 24 Aye 182–307
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Clause 1, as amended, stand part No 389–102
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 46 Aye 105–381
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Third Reading No 320–171
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: New Clause 1 Aye 172–322
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Clause 2 stand part No 318–174
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9 No vote 83–319
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 7 Aye 174–321
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Remaining Stages: Amendment 9 Aye 160–324
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 8 Aye 151–319
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 5 No vote 78–316
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 41 Aye 164–333
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 40 Aye 163–339
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage New Clause 26 No vote 78–327
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Second Reading No 340–77
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading Aye 78–292
16 Sep 2025 Child poverty strategy (removal of two child limit): Ten Minute Rule Motion No 89–79
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 121 No 316–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 62 No 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 61 No 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 60 No 318–170

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

£16,000

Name of donor: John James
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £16,000
Donor status: individual
(Registered 9 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

£12,000

Name of donor: Stuart Leach Associates Limited
Address of donor: The Greenhouse, Greencroft Industrial Park, Stanley DH9 7XN
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £12,000 paid in monthly instalments of £1,000 a month from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027, to assist with ongoing campaigning activity.
Donor status: company, registration 14239649
(Registered 1 June 2026)

On the register since 3 Jun 2026

8. Miscellaneous

Member of the Thornaby Town Deal Fund Board. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 6 January 2020
(Registered 11 December 2024)

On the register since 28 Nov 2025

Trustee of Friends of Fairfield Play Park, a registered charity that is seeking to establish a play park in the Fairfield Community for the benefit of residents and their children. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 1 May 2024
(Registered 9 May 2024)

On the register since 11 Jun 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

3 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £10,748 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
12 Apr 2025 Matt Vickers sitting MP Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS) Other Visit £2,452
6 Apr 2025 Matt Vickers sitting MP Coalition for Global Prosperity (CGP) Other Visit £5,096
17 Feb 2025 Matt Vickers sitting MP Conservative Friends of Israel Ltd (CFI Ltd) Other Visit £3,200

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 →

Machine-readable: JSON for this MP.

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