At a glanceSimon Hoare is a Conservative MP for North Dorset, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They have cast 373 votes in Commons divisions (65% attendance), tabled 163 written questions and registered 3 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Simon Hoare did not vote in 200. 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
- Courts (Remote Hearings) Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) Bill Committee since 25 Jun 2025
- Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements Committee · Chair since 11 Jun 2025
- Welsh Affairs Committee Committee since 13 Jan 2025
- Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Committee since 16 Dec 2024
- Liaison Committee (Commons) Committee since 4 Dec 2024
- Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission Committee since 20 Nov 2024
- Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Committee · Chair since 11 Sep 2024
- North Dorset Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 7 May 2015
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 348 of 348 shared votes
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John Lamont
Conservative
100.0% · 346 of 346 shared votes
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Edward Argar
Conservative
100.0% · 344 of 344 shared votes
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Dr Andrew Murrison
Conservative
100.0% · 344 of 344 shared votes
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Dr Kieran Mullan
Conservative
100.0% · 337 of 337 shared votes
Votes least like
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 215 shared votes
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Sarah Jones
Labour
1.4% · 3 of 213 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
1.5% · 5 of 324 shared votes
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Sarah Edwards
Labour
1.6% · 4 of 249 shared votes
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Pamela Nash
Labour
1.7% · 5 of 290 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.
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Israel between 24 May 2026 and 28 May 2026 (registered 5 Jun 2026)
Miscellaneous1
- Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role. (registered 12 Aug 2025)
Family members employed1
- Kate Hoare employed (registered 29 Feb 2016)
Written questions
Pharmacy: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on revising and updating regulations governing the operation of pharmacies by pharmacy businesses in the context of Jhoots pharmacy.
Answer · 15 Jun 2026
The Department is reviewing the regulations governing pharmaceutical services in England in light of the issues that arose when a large number of Jhoots pharmacies went into administration.As part of this work, the Department has engaged with NHS England,...
Arthritis: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to improve public awareness of arthritis symptoms to help reduce delays in the seeking of medical advice.
Answer · 4 Jun 2026
The Government recognises the importance of improving public awareness of arthritis and its symptoms to support early diagnosis and timely access to care. On its NHS.UK website, NHS England provides extensive, publicly accessible information regarding the...
Veterinary Services: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how and when the Government is proposing to respond to the CMA report on vets.
Answer · 5 Mar 2026
The final report for the CMA’s market investigation is due in Spring 2026. Defra aims to respond to this within 90 days of its release.
State Retirement Pensions: Chronic Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to help support pre-pensioners with long-term health conditions in the context of increases to the State Pension age.
Answer · 17 Mar 2026
People with long-term health conditions will continue to be supported by the benefit system, including Personal Independence Payments (PIP), up to and beyond reaching State Pension age, and Universal Credit for those unable to work before reaching retirem...
Employment Schemes: Musculoskeletal Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support people living with arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions to (a) return to and (b) enter into work.
Answer · 5 Mar 2026
Just under 18 million people in England were estimated to be affected by musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in 2023 and improving their health and work outcomes will help deliver this government's mission to kickstart economic growth. MSK problems were one ...
Park Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what engagement with Park Home owners his Department has had during the past 12 months.
Answer · 2 Mar 2026
Officials from my Department have had six meetings with four residents’ associations representing park home owners over the past 12 months to deepen the Department’s understanding of their rights and obligations and how the former are enforced. I attended...
Park Homes: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has calculated the costs to park home owners that have been spent on commission during the 12 months since the Park Home Owners JUSTICE report was submitte
Answer · 2 Mar 2026
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 97962 on 15 December 2025.
Park Homes: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to respond to the report from the Park Home owners JUSTICE campaign about the rationale for 10% commission rate.
Answer · 2 Mar 2026
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 97962 on 15 December 2025.
Early day motions
| 19 Jan 2021 | Award of the George Cross to the NHS | 11 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
As my hon. Friend considers the evolution of the Opposition’s justice policy, might he give consideration to taking the expansion of prisons, or the development of new prisons, out of the ordinary planning arena, as it once was? Prisons s…
6 Jul 2026 Civil Service Pensions
I thank the Minister for his statement and, through him, his officials, and particularly the surge team, who are trying to clear up this mess of Capita’s creation. I am sure the Minister will share my bemusement at Capita’s stance. It s…
1 Jul 2026 Israel: E1 Zone Expansion
I thank the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) for his urgent question. I was on the trip to Israel with him the other week, and we saw all too clearly and depressingly the very clear strategy of the Israeli Government; …
1 Jul 2026 Online Safety: Children
Parents, teachers and young people across North Dorset welcomed the Secretary of State’s announcement last month, as do I. This is clearly a fast-moving area of communication. Will the Secretary of State assure the House that this will be …
24 Jun 2026 Farming Road Map and Profitability Review
I, too, hope that the right hon. Lady remains in place, and I thank her for bringing forward the road map. On behalf of the livestock and arable farmers in North Dorset, Blackmore Vale and Cranborne Chase, what should they be looking for i…
24 Jun 2026 Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
The hon. Member for Leeds South West and Morley (Mark Sewards) is in agreement. Can the Secretary of State’s Department now grip that issue and drive it forward in order to give certainty to all our people that there is dignity and decency…
24 Jun 2026 Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services
The Secretary of State and the shadow Secretary of State, my right hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Stuart Andrew), are both to be congratulated on the tone and tenor with which they have approached this most sensitive of issues—it is …
23 Jun 2026 Puberty Blockers
My hon. Friend the Member for Reigate (Rebecca Paul) mentioned the recently published studies in Finland. Does the hon. Gentleman not think there is any merit in waiting to see what the Finnish tests and trials throw up? We could then see …
23 Jun 2026 Puberty Blockers
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
23 Jun 2026 Puberty Blockers
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
16 Jun 2026 West Bank: Settler Activity
I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s use of the term “settler terrorism”. She is absolutely right; the phrase “settler violence” does not do justice to what is happening. She will be aware that settler terrorism is often enabled and encourage…
15 Jun 2026 NHS Dentistry
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, my near neighbour, for bringing forward this motion. He will agree that this is an issue that seems to fall hardest—disproportionately so—on rural areas. Does he also agree that Governments of both hues…
15 Jun 2026 Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival
I am sure that the right hon. Lady paid as close attention to the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Maldon as I did, but she has just repeated that during covid the Government, to quote her phrase, bailed out the Royal Albert …
3 Jun 2026 Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations
It is a tragic perversity that the actions of Hezbollah and Hamas actually hurt and harm the interests and safety of those whom they purport to act on behalf of. Several years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister Barak described Israel as be…
1 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
First, through the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, may I thank all of the officials at the Cabinet Office who have dealt with this matter in a very thorough, professional and—as far as I am concerned—courteous way? For that, I am gr…
29 Apr 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
Violence against women and girls is often focused on what women and girls can do to keep themselves safe, but the Minister will know that the pernicious attitude of toxic masculinity has a huge impact on teenage boys, young women and girls…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
A moment ago, while the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister had popped out of the Chamber, the hon. Gentleman was saying something rather nice and complimentary about him. I just wanted to give him the opportunity to repeat it, now that…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
Would my right hon. Friend forgive me if I do not? A lot of Members want to speak, so I want to make a little progress. The third compelling point is that Labour Whips and Ministers will have deployed an argument about the local electio…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
My hon. Friend is right. The same was true, of course, when the Privileges Committee looked at Boris Johnson’s behaviour; the majority of MPs on the Committee were Tory, and the Committee was still able to come to a judgment on the facts a…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
Don’t worry, Madam Deputy Speaker; I have checked what is parliamentary language and what is not. The first point I would make is one that has already been made. I was never a fan of Boris Johnson. We first met in the late 1990s; I neve…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 13 Nov 2023 – 5 Jul 2024
Committee memberships
- Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission 16 Jan 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill 15 May 2024 – 22 May 2024
- Northern Ireland Affairs Committee · Chair 29 Jan 2020 – 14 Nov 2023
- Liaison Committee (Commons) 20 May 2020 – 13 Nov 2023
- Liaison Committee (Commons) 12 Jun 2019 – 6 Nov 2019
- Northern Ireland Affairs Committee · Chair 12 Jun 2019 – 6 Nov 2019
- Regulatory Reform 6 Nov 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Welsh Affairs Committee 16 Oct 2017 – 26 Nov 2018
- Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art 12 Dec 2017 – 4 Sep 2018
- Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art 1 Dec 2015 – 3 May 2017
- Regulatory Reform 12 Oct 2015 – 3 May 2017
- Procedure Committee 13 Jul 2015 – 21 Nov 2016
Previous seats
- North Dorset · Elected 3 times 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Cardiff South and Penarth 6 May 2010
- Cardiff West 1 May 1997
Expenses
Source: IPSA (OGL v3.0)
Contact & offices
020 7219 5697
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Simon Hoare, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Simon Hoare?
Simon Hoare is a Member of Parliament representing North Dorset in the House of Commons. See Simon Hoare's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Simon Hoare represent?
Simon Hoare sits as Conservative. See Simon Hoare's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Simon Hoare represent?
Simon Hoare is the Member of Parliament for North Dorset. See Simon Hoare's official Parliament profile.
How long has Simon Hoare been an MP?
Simon Hoare has served in the House of Commons for 11 years, 2 months. See Simon Hoare's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Simon Hoare?
Simon Hoare has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Simon Hoare's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.