At a glanceEsther McVey is a Conservative MP for Tatton, and has represented the seat for 9 years, 1 month. They have cast 268 votes in Commons divisions (47% attendance), tabled 692 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Esther McVey did not vote in 307. 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
- Panel of Chairs Committee since 27 Nov 2024
- Tatton 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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Bradley Thomas
Conservative
100.0% · 264 of 264 shared votes
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 256 of 256 shared votes
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Dr Andrew Murrison
Conservative
100.0% · 256 of 256 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 256 of 256 shared votes
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Greg Smith
Conservative
100.0% · 256 of 256 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.5% · 1 of 219 shared votes
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Pamela Nash
Labour
0.5% · 1 of 195 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
0.7% · 1 of 137 shared votes
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 231 shared votes
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Jas Athwal
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 228 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 earnings - Ad hoc payments20
- Payment received on 12 June 2026 - £600.00 (registered 18 Jun 2026)
- Payment received on 02 June 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 18 Jun 2026)
- Payment received on 18 May 2026 - £450.00 (registered 21 May 2026)
- Payment received on 06 May 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 21 May 2026)
- Payment received on 15 April 2026 - £200.00 (registered 5 May 2026)
- Payment received on 02 April 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 14 Apr 2026)
- Payment received on 13 March 2026 - £600.00 (registered 18 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 03 March 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 18 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 13 February 2026 - £200.00 (registered 18 Mar 2026)
- Payment received on 19 February 2026 - £560.00 (registered 26 Feb 2026)
- Payment received on 03 February 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 11 Feb 2026)
- Payment received on 06 January 2026 - £2,166.66 (registered 6 Jan 2026)
- Payment received on 01 December 2025 - £2,166.66 (registered 23 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 12 December 2025 - £850.00 (registered 19 Dec 2025)
- Payment received on 04 November 2025 - £2,166.66 (registered 19 Nov 2025)
- Payment received on 04 November 2025 - £240.00 (registered 6 Nov 2025)
- Payment received on 15 October 2025 - £400.00 (registered 17 Oct 2025)
- Payment received on 02 October 2025 - £2,166.66 (registered 9 Oct 2025)
- Payment received on 16 July 2025 - £550.00 (registered 5 Sep 2025)
- Payment received on 03 September 2025 - £280.00 (registered 5 Sep 2025)
Written questions
Written question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to publish a daily dashboard of deaths by date.
Awaiting an answer from the Cabinet Office.
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Food Safety Act 1990, what is the legal basis for the adding of folic acid to non-wholewheat flour as a public health measure.
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Folic Acid
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15320 on Folic Acid, with reference to the Food Standard Agency's information page entitled Guidance: Folic Acid, updated on 10 July 2026, where t
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) website moved over to the GOV.UK platform on 25 June 2026. The FSA’s information page on the fortification of flour with folic acid is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/folic-acid/...
Innovation and Technology: Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15321 on Innovation and Technology: Obesity, whether the evaluation activity will be independent of Eli Lilly and Company; whether it
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme evaluation has been commissioned independently through the National Institute for Health and Care Research and is entirely independent of Eli Lilly and Company. The evaluation team is currently working with funded ...
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish monthly data showing the number of Referral to Treatment pathways removed from waiting lists by reason for removal.
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the reduction in the Referral to Treatment waiting list between August 2024 and March 2026 was attributable to (a) increased completed treatments and (b) non-treatment removals,
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Coronavirus: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether HM Treasury has produced, commissioned or received an estimate of the total amount lost through fraud and error across Covid-19 support schemes that exceeds the published estimate of £10.9 billion.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
Neither HM Treasury nor the Public Sector Fraud Authority have produced, commissioned or received an estimate of the total amount lost through fraud and error across Covid-19 support schemes that exceeds the published estimate of £10.9bn. The Public Secto...
New Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government has analysed companies incorporated during the pandemic against recipients of Bounce Back Loans and other Covid support schemes.
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
HM Government has analysed the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) portfolio for indicators that borrowers received loans which were ineligible under Scheme rules. This included analysing whether businesses were established on or before 1st March 2020 in accor...
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Will the Minister give way in the final 30 seconds?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Did the Minister just say, “so that the Government can part-own some of this”? Were those the words he used?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
I see the hon. Member for Wirral West (Matthew Patrick) in the seat behind the Minister, although I appreciate that, as a Parliamentary Private Secretary, he is not able to speak. The Minister might not know this. but I confirm that Wirral…
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Will the Minister give way on another inaccurate piece of information?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Can the Minister confirm that the final sign-off on this project, via a development consent order, will be done by the Secretary of State for Energy—by, in other words, the Government? Is that true or false?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Will the Minister give way?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Then don’t be so dismissive!
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Will the Minister give way?
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
I thank my neighbour for asking that question. If he listens to the rest of the debate, he will see that this is not a private project; it has deep structural and financial ties to, and sign-off by, the Government. It is not, as he wrongly…
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
I agree, but none of that has been forthcoming to the public, no matter how hard they have tried, and the public do not want the project. Right across the region, there have been demonstrations and councils have voted against it. At a rece…
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
I beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of the Peak Cluster Pipeline and project. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. It is good to see the Minister in his place. I hope to get some meani…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I thank the Minister for being generous with his time. Can he clarify a point? The Secretary of State was trying to stop some of the pull factors, and I welcomed the extension from five to 10 years in the qualification period for indefini…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
How much time, exactly? The Government have had two years in office and have already changed Prime Minister.
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
The average daily arrivals of illegal immigrants under this Labour Government are 94% higher than under the previous Government, so can the Minister tell me exactly which policies are working?
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for moving the motion and to the vast number of people—720,000, including 1,093 fr…
8 Jul 2026 National Youth Strategy
I call the Minister, hopeful that Harpreet Uppal will have a couple of minutes at the end to wind up.
8 Jul 2026 National Youth Strategy
I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called. I will call the Front-Bench spokespeople at 5.10 pm. This debate is popular, so I set a time limit of three minutes and remind Members to keep interventions short.
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
I call the Minister, mindful that I would like to give some time to the hon. Member for Poole to wind up the debate.
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
As three Members wish to speak, the time limit for speeches is three to four minutes, because we are going to the Front Benchers at 3.30 pm.
8 Jul 2026 Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy
Order. I will call the Front Benchers from 3.30; I will not impose a fixed time limit, but about six or seven people want to speak.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office) · Cabinet Office 13 Nov 2023 – 5 Jul 2024
- Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 24 Jul 2019 – 13 Feb 2020
- Secretary of State for Work and Pensions · Department for Work and Pensions 8 Jan 2018 – 15 Nov 2018
- Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons) · HM Household 2 Nov 2017 – 8 Jan 2018
- Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Cabinet) · Department for Work and Pensions 15 Jul 2014 – 30 Mar 2015
- Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) · Department for Work and Pensions 7 Oct 2013 – 15 Jul 2014
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) · Department for Work and Pensions 6 Sep 2012 – 7 Oct 2013
Committee memberships
- Panel of Chairs 22 Jun 2020 – 15 Nov 2023
- Shark Fins Bill 9 Nov 2022 – 16 Nov 2022
- Committee of Selection 14 Nov 2017 – 11 Jan 2018
- Home Affairs Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 4 Dec 2017
Previous seats
- Tatton · Elected 2 times 8 Jun 2017 – 30 May 2024
- Wirral West · Elected 1 time 6 May 2010 – 30 Mar 2015
Elections contested
- Wirral West 7 May 2015
- Wirral West 5 May 2005
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 3226
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency Office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Esther McVey, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Esther McVey?
Esther McVey is a Member of Parliament representing Tatton in the House of Commons. See Esther McVey's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Esther McVey represent?
Esther McVey sits as Conservative. See Esther McVey's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Esther McVey represent?
Esther McVey is the Member of Parliament for Tatton. See Esther McVey's official Parliament profile.
How long has Esther McVey been an MP?
Esther McVey has served in the House of Commons for 9 years, 1 month. See Esther McVey's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Esther McVey?
Esther McVey has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Esther McVey's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.