Official portrait of Dr Simon Opher

Dr Simon Opher

Labour MP for Stroud, since 4 July 2024

Dr Simon Opher is the Labour MP for Stroud, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

79.8% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
471 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
119 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
7 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
14 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
106 Debates spoken in 339 written questions tabled

Ranked 174 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 Aye 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion Aye 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 Aye 371–100
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 No 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 No 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 No 108–357
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 No 79–300
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No 170–316
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 No 77–317
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–79
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading Aye 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 No 105–410
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 No 166–346
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division Aye 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division Aye 330–109
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No 102–409
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No 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 Aye 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 Aye 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 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 expected: £900
Completed or provided on: 11 June 2026. Hours: 9 hrs.
(Registered 17 June 2026)

On the register since 30 Jun 2026

Role, work or services: Locum Doctor
Payer: NHS, May Lane Surgery, Dursley, Glos GL11 4JN
(Registered 17 July 2024; updated 12 May 2025)

On the register since 19 Jun 2026

Payment: £1,550
Received on: 23 March 2026. Hours: 15.5 hrs five GP surgeries.
(Registered 23 March 2026)

On the register since 14 Apr 2026

Payment: £1,500 Payment for work as a locum at three GP surgeries
Received on: 16 October 2025. Hours: 20 hrs 3 GP surgeries.
(Registered 17 October 2025)

On the register since 12 Feb 2026

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

Name of donor: Unison
Address of donor: UNISON Centre 130 Euston Road London NW1 2AY United Kingdom
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,500
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 28 August 2026)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 1 September 2026. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code of Conduct refers.

On the register since 8 Sep 2026

£5,000

Name of donor: Labour Together Limited
Address of donor: Langley House Park Road East Finchley London N2 8EY United Kingdom
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £5,000
Donor status: company, registration 09630980
(Registered 28 August 2026)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 1 September 2026. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code of Conduct refers.

On the register since 8 Sep 2026

Name of donor: Unison
Address of donor: UNISON Centre 130 Euston Road London NW1 2AY
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £3,000
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 28 August 2026)
This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 1 September 2026. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the
Code of Conduct refers.

On the register since 8 Sep 2026

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: SXSW London
Address of donor: Second Floor, 67-71 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: I received a complementary platinum pass for SXSW London conference, where I was a speaker, value £1,560
Date received: 3 June 2026
Date accepted: 3 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 16034054
(Registered 3 June 2026)

On the register since 16 Jun 2026

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Imperial College London
Address of donor: Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£2200), consumables (£200), taxis/transport (£50) and accommodation (£500), value £2,950
Destination of visit: Brazil
Dates of visit: 13 April 2026 to 19 April 2026
Purpose of visit: Fact finding visit to observe work of Brazil's community health workers with Imperial College London.
(Registered 20 April 2026)

On the register since 29 Apr 2026

Name of donor: Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding)
Address of donor: 1 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights, accommodation and food, value £1,050
Destination of visit: Palestine and Jordan
Dates of visit: 14 September 2025 to 16 September 2025
Purpose of visit: Fact finding visit organised by the Council for Arab-British Understanding
(Registered 18 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 15 July 2025
(Registered 22 July 2025)

On the register since 28 Jul 2026

Political Patron for CRAFT (the new body for the UK comedy industry). This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 6 March 2026
(Registered 6 March 2026)

On the register since 10 Mar 2026

Vice President of Cotswold Canal Trust. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 29 November 2025
(Registered 2 December 2025)

On the register since 16 Dec 2025

Director of Prema Arts Centre, Uley. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 17 July 2024)

On the register since 16 Aug 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

1 donation accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £2,950 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
13 Apr 2026 Dr Simon Opher sitting MP Imperial College London Other Visit £2,950

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 →

Machine-readable: JSON for this MP.

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