At a glanceChris Philp is a Conservative MP for Croydon South, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They currently serve as Shadow Home Secretary. They have cast 363 votes in Commons divisions (63% attendance), tabled 138 written questions and registered 11 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Chris Philp did not vote in 212. 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
He currently undertakes the role of Shadow Home Secretary.
Current roles
- Shadow Home Secretary Opposition post · Home Office since 5 Nov 2024
- Croydon South 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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James Cartlidge
Conservative
100.0% · 314 of 314 shared votes
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James Wild
Conservative
100.0% · 299 of 299 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
100.0% · 281 of 281 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
100.0% · 251 of 251 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
100.0% · 245 of 245 shared votes
Votes least like
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
0.3% · 1 of 318 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 279 shared votes
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Mr Bayo Alaba
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 269 shared votes
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 265 shared votes
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Kenneth Stevenson
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 258 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.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP3
- Anthony Todd - £10,000.00 (registered 13 Jul 2026)
- Jonathan Lourie - £10,000.00 (registered 9 Jun 2026)
- Alan Morgan - £10,000.00 (registered 9 Jun 2026)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
- The Football Association - £390.00 (registered 11 Aug 2025)
Shareholdings5
- Shares in Galenic Laboratories Ltd (registered 31 Oct 2024)
- Shares in Pluto Development Partners LLP (registered 5 Jun 2015)
- Shares in Pluto Partners LLP (registered 5 Jun 2015)
- Shares in Millgap Ltd (registered 5 Jun 2015)
- Shares in Pluto Capital Management LLP (registered 5 Jun 2015)
Miscellaneous2
- A company in which Millgap Ltd holds beneficial ownership of 0.375% became accredited for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. (registered 25 May 2021)
- A company to which a subsidiary of Pluto Partners LLP provides services became accredited for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. (registered 25 May 2021)
Written questions
Home Office: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she pans to answer named day written questions 12724, 12725, 12726 and 12727 tabled on 24 June.
Awaiting an answer from the Home Office.
Cameron Barracks
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the various community and armed forces groups that previously used the Cameron Barracks facility will be able to resume their activities at the barracks.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
The Army is preparing to move back into Cameron Barracks and look forward to welcoming back the community groups who previously shared the site. We expect the move back to have been completed by the Autumn, subject to finalising a hand back plan with the ...
Cameron Barracks
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Cameron Barracks will be returned to the Ministry of Defence.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
Following our decision not to proceed with the consideration of Cameron Barracks, the site is in the process of being returned to the Ministry of Defence. This will be completed on or before our original agreed hand back date of October 2026.
Undocumented Migrants: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a schedule of charges and convictions for criminal offences against small boat migrants.
Answer · 23 Jul 2026
A breakdown by the number of charges and convictions for all criminal offences is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.Security checks are undertaken for all those ...
Undocumented Migrants: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office holds data on whether small boat migrants have been charged or convicted of any criminal offence.
Answer · 23 Jul 2026
A breakdown by the number of charges and convictions for all criminal offences is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.Security checks are undertaken for all those ...
Undocumented Migrants: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any migrants admitted under the one in, one out deal have been charged or convicted of a criminal offence.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.All individuals seeking to come to the UK under the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme, part of...
Undocumented Migrants: Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether migrants admitted under the one in one out policy have been (a) charged and (b) convicted of any criminal offence.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
The information requested is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.All individuals seeking to come to the UK under the UK/European Applicant Transfer Scheme, part of...
Immigration: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for leave to remain have been granted on Article 3 ECHR medical grounds in each year since 2016.
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
The information that you have requested about Article 3 ECHR and deportation is not available from published statistics.We are fully committed to making our communities safer by returning those who break our laws, which is why in the period between this g...
Early day motions
| 12 Feb 2026 | Trafficking of the victims of grooming gangs overseas | 9 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I need to finish. While I agree with the diagnoses that the Home Secretary eloquently set out in her speech, the measures that she proposes simply will not work. I know that because I have tried to introduce such measures in the past, i…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
First of all, I do not think that Winston Churchill would ever have envisaged that the ECHR, which he helped create, would lead us to being unable to control our borders. Secondly, on the Good Friday agreement, I urge the hon. Lady to read…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will take one last intervention before finishing.
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
When the ECHR was first conceived and entered into as a treaty in 1950, it was developed for very good reasons. It was designed to avoid a repetition of the horrors of the second world war, which the hon. Gentleman refers to, but over the …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Let me finish the point. The truth is that tinkering like this does not work when we have very expansive rights-based conventions. The only way of fixing this properly is to exit the ECHR entirely, repeal the Human Rights Act entirely, exi…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. When it comes to foreign criminals, and people who enter this country illegally, having exited a safe place, namely France, I do not think that they should be given all the protections that we ha…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows nothing about Facebook clips, but let me be honest: mistakes were made in the past, and the policies that we have now developed, under new leadership, will fix those issues. In fact, this indefinite …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will give way again, but I want to make a bit of progress first. There will be plenty of other opportunities later. I will briefly touch on indefinite leave to remain, which is conspicuous by its absence from the Bill. We heard the po…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I agree that the situation in countries such as Afghanistan creates large movements of people—that is correct—and fixing problems at source is clearly the best thing to do. However, I do not think transferring potentially tens of millions …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. For many nationalities that cross the English channel by small boat—Afghan, Iranian, Iraqi, Eritrean and Sudanese, to name just six or seven—the asylum grant rate is well over 90%. In some cases, it …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Our membership of the ECHR has less effect on deportations to Europe, because it is hard to make an ECHR-based claim if the receiving country is in Europe. However, when it comes to deporting foreign criminals to countries outside of Europ…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add: “this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, while welcoming some of its provisions, because the Bill does not…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
For the benefit of the House and for clarification, does the Home Secretary intend to implement her proposed ILR changes via amendments to the Bill, or via the immigration rules in the autumn?
13 Jul 2026 Death of Ann Widdecombe
I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. I start by offering my deepest condolences to Ann’s family and friends. She will be terribly missed. Ann sat as the Conservative MP for Maidstone for nearly a quarter of a c…
13 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The Home Secretary was not as quite as clear as she was previously. Vile rapist Shabir Ahmed must be deported back to Pakistan along with all eligible rape gang perpetrators. Separately, survivors like Fiona Goddard have said that they …
13 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Mr Speaker, I join you in paying tribute to Ann Widdecombe. She was a formidable campaigner who served with huge integrity. She will be missed. I know that the whole House supports the police in delivering justice for Ann. Reports today…
10 Jun 2026 Belfast: Violent Disorder
Monday night’s attack was disgusting and barbaric. The victim suffered serious injuries to his neck and lost an eye. I am sure that the thoughts of the whole House are with him. I thank the police and emergency services for responding and …
8 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The Home Secretary still gives no clear answer. We have repeatedly raised serious concerns with the Government’s Islamophobia definition. South Wales police has now instructed staff to record anything that goes beyond “legitimate discussio…
8 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The “Police Anti-Racism Commitment”, a copy of which I have here, published in March 2025 by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, asks police to reverse engineer the same arrest rates for different ethnic groups, even though offending rate…
8 Jun 2026 Illegal Migration
Nigerian illegal immigrant Gift Oladele was recently jailed for the brutal rape of a teenage girl. He dragged her into isolated woods, leaving her terrified, and she now has recurrent nightmares. Oladele had committed previous violent sexu…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Minister of State (Home Office) · Home Office 26 Oct 2022 – 5 Jul 2024
- Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office · Cabinet Office 14 Oct 2022 – 25 Oct 2022
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 6 Sep 2022 – 14 Oct 2022
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 16 Sep 2021 – 7 Jul 2022
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) · Home Office 13 Feb 2020 – 16 Sep 2021
- Minister of State (London) · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 18 Dec 2019 – 13 Feb 2020
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) · Ministry of Justice 10 Sep 2019 – 13 Feb 2020
Opposition posts
- Shadow Leader of the House of Commons · Office of the Leader of the House of Commons 8 Jul 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
Committee memberships
- Modernisation Committee 9 Sep 2024 – 18 Nov 2024
- Restoration and Renewal Client Board 22 Jul 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
- Members Estimate Committee 8 Jul 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
- House of Commons Commission 8 Jul 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
- Licensing Hours Extensions Bill 7 Feb 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill 1 May 2024 – 8 May 2024
- Criminal Justice Bill 6 Dec 2023 – 30 Jan 2024
- Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill 25 Jan 2023 – 1 Feb 2023
- Online Safety Bill 18 May 2022 – 28 Jun 2022
- Nationality and Borders Bill 15 Sep 2021 – 19 Sep 2021
- Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 12 May 2021 – 24 Jun 2021
- Treasury Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 3 May 2017
Previous seats
- Croydon South · Elected 3 times 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Hampstead and Kilburn 6 May 2010
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Chris Philp, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Chris Philp?
Chris Philp is a Member of Parliament representing Croydon South in the House of Commons. See Chris Philp's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Chris Philp represent?
Chris Philp sits as Conservative. See Chris Philp's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Chris Philp represent?
Chris Philp is the Member of Parliament for Croydon South. See Chris Philp's official Parliament profile.
How long has Chris Philp been an MP?
Chris Philp has served in the House of Commons for 11 years, 2 months. See Chris Philp's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Chris Philp?
Chris Philp has 11 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Chris Philp's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.