At a glanceHelen Grant is a Conservative MP for Maidstone and Malling, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They currently serve as Shadow Solicitor General. They have cast 299 votes in Commons divisions (52% attendance), tabled 175 written questions and registered 14 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Helen Grant did not vote in 276. 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
She currently undertakes the role of Shadow Solicitor General.
Current roles
- Shadow Solicitor General Opposition post · Attorney General's Office since 6 Nov 2024
- Maidstone and Malling 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% · 283 of 283 shared votes
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Dr Kieran Mullan
Conservative
100.0% · 282 of 282 shared votes
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Martin Vickers
Conservative
100.0% · 280 of 280 shared votes
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Edward Argar
Conservative
100.0% · 278 of 278 shared votes
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Joe Robertson
Conservative
100.0% · 278 of 278 shared votes
Votes least like
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Ellie Reeves
Labour
0.5% · 1 of 187 shared votes
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 233 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
1.2% · 3 of 254 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
1.2% · 2 of 166 shared votes
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Sarah Jones
Labour
1.3% · 2 of 153 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.
Employment and earnings2
- School Governor - Rugby School Nigeria (registered 23 Jun 2026)
- Campaign Board Chair - Archeva Limited (registered 11 May 2026)
Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment2
- Agreement starting 04 June 2026 - £4,000.00 (registered 23 Jun 2026)
- Agreement starting 08 May 2026 - £2,500.00 (registered 11 May 2026)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources5
- LTA Operations Limited - £810.00 (registered 25 Jun 2026)
- Channel 4 - £1,396.00 (registered 15 Apr 2026)
- Lawn Tennis Association - £640.00 (registered 16 Jul 2025)
- Lawn Tennis Association Ltd - £1,015.12 (registered 3 Jul 2025)
- Lawn Tennis Association Limited - £399.47 (registered 3 Jul 2025)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)2
- Residential in Surrey (registered 26 Aug 2021)
- Commercial in Croydon
Shareholdings1
- Shares in Helen Grant Limited (registered 26 Feb 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- Unpaid Director of Helen Grant Limited, a Company set up as a community action project for women and girls in Africa manufacturing fashion garments. The company is dormant and has never traded. (registered 26 Feb 2025)
Family members employed1
- Simon Grant employed
Written questions
Midwives: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of employment opportunities for newly qualified midwives; and what steps he is taking to ensure that qualified healthcare professiona
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
We recognise the difficulties newly qualified midwives are experiencing when they are seeking employment in the National Health Service. We are investing £10.6 million to fund an additional 1,000 temporary roles to help newly qualified midwives join the N...
Railways: Passengers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will produce a specific passenger focused plan on train travel post rail-reform as recommended by the Public Accounts Committee.
Answer · 31 Mar 2026
The Public Accounts Committee recommendation referred to the draft legislation of the previous Government. This Government has been clear it is committed to a relentless focus on passengers, as set out for example in the response to the consultation on th...
Railways: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an impact assessment regarding safety on trains following Royal Assent of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership Bill) has been undertaken.
Answer · 31 Mar 2026
The Department has not undertaken a specific impact assessment of the safety implications of the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill following Royal Assent, as the safety regime is not changing. However, the Government continues to monitor ...
British Transport Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the future funding arrangements for the British Transport Police in the context of rail nationalisation; and whether responsibility for its funding will transfer to central Gover
Answer · 31 Mar 2026
The British Transport Police’s (BTP) budget is set annually by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA), following proposals from the Force and views from industry. BTP's costs are passed on to individual Train Operating Companies, Network Rail, and ...
National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of levels of public resource available where constabularies act upon intelligence or referrals generated by industry-funded vehicle crime units.
Answer · 27 Mar 2026
We fully recognise the serious and growing threat that freight crime poses to businesses, drivers, and the wider economy. The Government does not fund NaVCIS. Instead NaVCIS is funded by the industry, including finance and leasing companies, insurers and ...
Police: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Department intends to review transparency requirements for nationally operating police-associated units funded by private industry bodies.
Answer · 27 Mar 2026
We fully recognise the serious and growing threat that freight crime poses to businesses, drivers, and the wider economy. The Government does not fund NaVCIS. Instead NaVCIS is funded by the industry, including finance and leasing companies, insurers and ...
National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that outcome-linked funding arrangements do not give rise to perceived conflicts of interest in operational decision-making.
Answer · 27 Mar 2026
We fully recognise the serious and growing threat that freight crime poses to businesses, drivers, and the wider economy. The Government does not fund NaVCIS. Instead NaVCIS is funded by the industry, including finance and leasing companies, insurers and ...
National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers have received information regarding funding arrangements for both fixed contributions and payments calculated by reference to the value of vehicles recovered.
Answer · 12 Mar 2026
Vehicle recovery Statutory fees are prescribed in secondary legislation under road traffic vehicle recovery powers.The statutory framework provides for both fixed charges and variable payments that reflect the size, condition and recovery requirements of ...
Speeches in the chamber
9 Jul 2026 Jury Trials
The right hon. Member for Makerfield (Andy Burnham), likely the next Prime Minister, has said that jury trials are the “lynchpin of a fair society” and that the plans to curb them should be paused. When he takes over, can we look for…
9 Jul 2026 Jury Trials
At Justice questions last Tuesday, the Minister for Courts and Legal Services restated her total support for the Government’s attack on jury trials. She described it as “pragmatic structural reform”, and suggested that those who oppose it …
4 Jun 2026 Jury Trials
Given the Justice Minister’s conflicting remarks in the Courts and Tribunals Bill Committee, and given the Solicitor General’s responsibility for upholding the rule of law, will she confirm whether a decision that a defendant on trial will…
4 Jun 2026 Jury Trials
Sir Brian Leveson recommended removing the right to elect a jury trial in cases involving offences that carry a maximum sentence of up to two years. Cases would be heard by a judge, sitting alongside two magistrates, in a Crown court bench…
3 Jun 2026 South East Water: Disruption of Supply
South East Water has openly and publicly admitted that it cannot supply drinking water for all the future homes that are planned for Kent. What is the Minister’s response to that specific concern, and is she having conversations with her c…
19 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill
I thank the right hon. and learned Lady for what she said about the Hudgell case and the child cruelty register. It has been an amazing campaign, led by Paula Hudgell and her little boy, and I am pleased that we were able to get cross-par…
19 Mar 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill
On Second Reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, the Minister for Courts and Legal Services, told the House that “politics is about choices”, so let us be clear about the choices that this Government have made. They chose to bring forwa…
5 Feb 2026 Jury Trials
That was a very disappointing answer. There is another contradiction too, this time on retro- spectivity. The Courts Minister says that cases already committed for trial at Crown court could be pushed back to swift courts. The Lord Chancel…
5 Feb 2026 Jury Trials
There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of Government. The Minister for Courts and Legal Services says that she would scrap jury trials even if there was not a crisis in the courts. The Lord Chancellor says that he is open to a c…
4 Feb 2026 Armed Conflict: Children
I congratulate the hon. Member on securing the debate. As she has just mentioned education, does she agree that education for children in very difficult settings can provide them with a lifeline and a place where they can feel safe, make f…
12 Jan 2026 Water Supplies: East Grinstead
I have no confidence whatsoever in South East Water. I have worked with it now for nearly 15 years. When things go wrong, and they often do in Kent and Sussex, its communication methods are absolutely atrocious: too little, too late and of…
18 Dec 2025 Jury Trials
I am not too sure that answered my question; I shall have another go. This month, the Minister’s colleague, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner), wrote: “The erosion of jury trials not only risks undermining a funda…
18 Dec 2025 Jury Trials
Thank you, Mr Speaker. May I wish you and your brilliant team a very happy Christmas? The 2017 Lammy review looked at prejudice in the criminal justice system. Our now Justice Secretary said: “Juries are a success story of our justic…
19 Nov 2025 Suicide: Reducing the Stigma
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this important debate. Over the past 10 years in England and Wales, one student has died every four days as a result of suicide. Ben West, a young man from my former constituency, set up a project c…
13 Nov 2025 Violence against Women and Girls
The campaign to introduce a child cruelty register has been led tirelessly by Paula Hudgell, the adoptive mother of 11-year-old Tony Hudgell. Sadly, Paula has now been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Tony was just 41 days old when his birt…
13 Nov 2025 Violence against Women and Girls
I also welcome the right hon. Lady to her place. She is the third Solicitor General I have sat opposite in the past 12 months, and I look forward to working with her constructively where we can and to having healthy debate in this Chamber …
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill
I hear what the Minister has to say. Will he bring forward a Government amendment to introduce a child cruelty register when the Bill moves to the House of Lords?
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill
I wish to speak to new clause 20, regarding the introduction of a child cruelty register. Tony and Paula Hudgell are my constituents, and I have had the honour of getting to know both of them—especially Paula, Tony’s adoptive mum—extremel…
14 Oct 2025 Child Risk Disclosure Scheme
I congratulate the hon, Lady on bringing forward this important debate and on speaking powerfully on behalf of her constituents. My heart goes out to Gemma, Rachael and the entire family. My constituent, 11-year-old Tony Hudgell, was ju…
4 Sep 2025 People Smuggling
Figures are going up and up and up, and the Solicitor General knows that. Can she confirm who these adjudicators will be—it would be lovely if she would answer the question—and will existing first-tier tribunal judges of the immigration a…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) · Department for Culture, Media and Sport 7 Oct 2013 – 30 Mar 2015
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) (Jointly with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) · Ministry of Justice 6 Sep 2012 – 7 Oct 2013
Other posts
- Vice-Chair, Conservative Party 8 Jan 2018 – 24 May 2019
Committee memberships
- Nationality and Borders Bill 15 Sep 2021 – 21 Sep 2021
- Committees on Arms Export Controls 10 Feb 2016 – 31 Oct 2016
- International Development Sub-Committee on the Work of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact 14 Jul 2015 – 31 Oct 2016
- International Development Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 31 Oct 2016
- Justice Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 31 Oct 2011
Previous seats
- Maidstone and The Weald · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 7107
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
First Floor, 109 Week Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1RB
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Helen Grant, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Helen Grant?
Helen Grant is a Member of Parliament representing Maidstone and Malling in the House of Commons. See Helen Grant's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Helen Grant represent?
Helen Grant sits as Conservative. See Helen Grant's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Helen Grant represent?
Helen Grant is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and Malling. See Helen Grant's official Parliament profile.
How long has Helen Grant been an MP?
Helen Grant has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Helen Grant's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Helen Grant?
Helen Grant has 14 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Helen Grant's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.