At a glanceDamian Hinds is a Conservative MP for East Hampshire, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They have cast 453 votes in Commons divisions (79% attendance), tabled 670 written questions and registered 1 financial interest.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Damian Hinds did not vote in 122. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
Current roles
- Licensing Hours Extensions Bill Committee since 4 Jun 2025
- Culture, Media and Sport Committee Committee since 9 Dec 2024
- East Hampshire Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Dr Andrew Murrison
Conservative
100.0% · 427 of 427 shared votes
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Edward Argar
Conservative
100.0% · 424 of 424 shared votes
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Mims Davies
Conservative
100.0% · 423 of 423 shared votes
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Sir Julian Lewis
Conservative
100.0% · 419 of 419 shared votes
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Dr Kieran Mullan
Conservative
100.0% · 416 of 416 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.8% · 3 of 357 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
1.0% · 4 of 387 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
1.3% · 3 of 240 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
1.4% · 5 of 357 shared votes
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Ruth Cadbury
Labour
1.4% · 5 of 351 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Residential in Hampshire (registered 7 Mar 2019)
Written questions
Schools: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the present period of extreme heat on the capacity of schools to remain safe and operational.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The department recognises that heatwaves can disrupt pupils’ learning, attendance and wellbeing. We are committed to supporting schools and responsible bodies to maintain a safe learning environment during periods of extreme heat. While high temperatures ...
Schools: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools remain safe and operational during periods of extreme heat.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The department takes periods of hot weather and heatwaves seriously and has published a climate risk assessment. We continue to support responsible bodies and schools to provide education in a safe environment.To support them, the department has published...
Gold: Prices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring transparent display of price paid per gramme among (a) over-the-counter and (b) online operators in the gold-buying
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade .
Exercise: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the answer to WPQ 14794 received on 8th July, what estimate he has made of the cash amount of his Department's funding contribution to the Department for Education for the Primary PE and
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The Government is investing over £1 billion for Physical Education (PE) and school sports over three years, including £580 million for a new PE and School Sport Partnerships Network. This represents a collaborative approach across the Department of Health...
Youth Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of her Department’s (a) capital and (b) revenue spending across youth facilities and activities programmes in (i) 2023/4, (ii) 2024/5, (iii) 2025/6 and (iv) 2026/7.
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The following amounts of capital and revenue were spent on the Department’s youth facilities and activities programme between 2023/24 and 2025/26. Details of 2026/7 spending will be published in due course. In 2023/4, spending was £119.6m (£42.3m capital ...
Exercise: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of his Department’s contribution to the Department for Education to support exercise and other health-related activity in schools in (i) 2023/4, (ii) 2024/5, (iii) 2025/6
Answer · 8 Jul 2026
The Department of Health and Social Care works collaboratively with the Department for Education on a range of programmes to improve children’s health.This includes making a significant funding contribution to the Department for Education over a number of...
Primary Education: Physical Education and Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the (a) total and (b) per-pupil primary school revenue funding earmarked for sport and physical education in Hampshire in (i) 2023/4, (ii) 2024/5, (iii) 2025/6 and (iv) 2026/7.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Education.
Primary Education: Physical Education and Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the (a) total and (b) per-pupil primary school revenue funding earmarked for sport and physical education in England in (i) 2023/4, (ii) 2024/5, (iii) 2025/6 and (iv) 2026/7.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Education.
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Business of the House
In support of the Government’s drive for economic growth and export earnings, may we have a debate in Government time on the role and potential of international inbound tourism? We have a lot of strengths in that sector, but we have lost c…
16 Jul 2026 National Planning Policy Framework
I agree. There is no practical limit on what we can learn from one another in the home nations of the United Kingdom. I want to come on to what is known as policy L3, which concerns the minimum density requirements for areas around trai…
16 Jul 2026 National Planning Policy Framework
It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Sir Desmond. I congratulate the hon. Member for Wells and Mendip Hills (Tessa Munt). I will try to cover four aspects of the NPPF in just short of four minutes. The first is what the NPPF say…
16 Jul 2026 Protecting Built Heritage
I commend the hon. Lady for her clear and excellent presentation of this report. Sadly, there is not time for me to list all the very many great heritage assets in East Hampshire. The hon. Lady talked about the importance of heritage to to…
13 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
The Government’s proposed carve-up of Hampshire ignores their preset criteria, has no mandate and splits up East Hampshire. The benefits, if there are any, will come way off in the future, whereas the costs and the disruption happen now. D…
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
I had better press on, because we have a number of colleagues to get through. Regarding generative AI and its effect on information integrity, which my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings referred to earlier,…
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
I agree with the hon. Gentleman; this is, of course, not a left versus right argument. For example, the antitrust regime in the United States exists precisely to prevent the concentration of power. Indeed, all the companies in the list we …
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
I agree with large parts of what the hon. Gentleman says. The timeframes are obviously shorter this time than they were for say, the industrial revolution, the printing press or any of the other massive changes that we have seen in the pas…
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
I commend the hon. Member for Poole (Neil Duncan-Jordan), as well as his two friends and allies who have just spoken, my right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) and the right hon. Member for Oxford …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I can tell the Minister that 3% is a relatively small percentage of 100%, and many of those people are students. The Labour party used to speak about zero-hours contracts as if they were taking over the entire economy, but that is simply n…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
rose—
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
As the Government look to introduce this hated so-called overnight visitor levy in England—[Interruption.] I believe they are. Labour Members always say, “Don’t worry, it’s not very much money. It will all be hypothecated. It will have no …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I genuinely do not know quite how to respond to that. The differential has come down. It is due to come down further—it is due to be eliminated. There will still be the difference in national insurance contributions. Nobody is at this tim…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
Well, I will help him with that. That principle is why, back in 1999—under a Labour Government, as he will recall—when the original minimum wage came in, the Low Pay Commission specified that there should be a different rate for young peop…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
The hon. Gentleman is right, of course. I do not think anybody in the House of Commons would argue that there should be no employment or workplace regulation at all. [Interruption.] Well—actually, I do not think anybody does, genuinely. I …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I had better not. Although, it always brightens my life to hear from the hon. Gentleman, so I will give way.
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
Good employers, who want to keep their employees, do not do stupid things that upset their employees. Good employers will always want to keep good people in order to build their business.
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
Of course the hon. Member is right. Nobody wants exploitative zero-hours contracts. Quite often when the Opposition talk about zero-hours contracts, the Government think that the work exploitative automatically gets inserted into the phras…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I am spoiled for choice. Who wants to contradict me?
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
My right hon. Friend is right. I have spent an inordinate amount of time studying zero-hours contracts, partly because the previous leader of the Labour party, the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), used to bring them u…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Minister of State (Education) · Department for Education 13 Nov 2023 – 5 Jul 2024
- Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) · Ministry of Justice 27 Oct 2022 – 13 Nov 2023
- Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) · Home Office 13 Aug 2021 – 7 Jul 2022
- Secretary of State for Education · Department for Education 8 Jan 2018 – 24 Jul 2019
- Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) · Department for Work and Pensions 15 Jul 2016 – 8 Jan 2018
- Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 8 May 2015 – 15 Jul 2016
- Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 15 Jul 2014 – 30 Mar 2015
Opposition posts
- Shadow Secretary of State for Education · Department for Education 8 Jul 2024 – 4 Nov 2024
Committee memberships
- Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] 5 Mar 2025 – 20 Mar 2025
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 15 Jan 2025 – 11 Feb 2025
- School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill 24 Apr 2024 – 1 May 2024
- Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill 1 Feb 2023 – 8 Feb 2023
- National Security Bill 29 Jun 2022 – 11 Jul 2022
- Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation 10 Mar 2020 – 19 Oct 2021
- Culture, Media and Sport Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 19 Oct 2021
- Education Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 5 Nov 2012
Previous seats
- East Hampshire · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Stretford and Urmston 5 May 2005
Expenses
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Damian Hinds, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Damian Hinds?
Damian Hinds is a Member of Parliament representing East Hampshire in the House of Commons. See Damian Hinds's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Damian Hinds represent?
Damian Hinds sits as Conservative. See Damian Hinds's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Damian Hinds represent?
Damian Hinds is the Member of Parliament for East Hampshire. See Damian Hinds's official Parliament profile.
How long has Damian Hinds been an MP?
Damian Hinds has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Damian Hinds's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Damian Hinds?
Damian Hinds has 1 entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Damian Hinds's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.