Member of Parliament
Laura Trott
Conservative MP for Sevenoaks
Shadow Secretary of State for Education
At a glanceLaura Trott is a Conservative MP for Sevenoaks, and has represented the seat for 6 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Shadow Secretary of State for Education. They have cast 280 votes in Commons divisions (49% attendance), tabled 141 written questions and registered 16 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Laura Trott did not vote in 295. 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 Secretary of State for Education.
Current roles
- Shadow Secretary of State for Education Opposition post · Department for Education since 4 Nov 2024
- Sevenoaks Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 12 Dec 2019
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Dr Luke Evans
Conservative
100.0% · 265 of 265 shared votes
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Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst
Conservative
100.0% · 264 of 264 shared votes
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Kit Malthouse
Conservative
100.0% · 254 of 254 shared votes
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Mr Peter Bedford
Conservative
100.0% · 252 of 252 shared votes
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Dame Caroline Dinenage
Conservative
100.0% · 220 of 220 shared votes
Votes least like
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Ms Julie Minns
Labour
0.4% · 1 of 240 shared votes
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
0.9% · 2 of 211 shared votes
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Yasmin Qureshi
Labour
1.2% · 2 of 172 shared votes
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Michael Payne
Labour
1.3% · 3 of 231 shared votes
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Afzal Khan
Labour
1.3% · 3 of 229 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
- Speaking Engagement - Coex Partners (registered 28 Nov 2025)
- Speaking Engagement - Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) (registered 3 Nov 2025)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments2
- Payment received on 06 November 2025 - £6,000.00 (registered 28 Nov 2025)
- Payment received on 22 October 2025 - £6,000.00 (registered 3 Nov 2025)
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP8
- The Knole Club - £4,000.00 (registered 5 May 2026)
- Charles Max Keyner - £5,000.00 (registered 29 Mar 2026)
- Sophie Smith - £4,000.00 (registered 22 Jan 2026)
- Lord Agnew - £10,000.00 (registered 28 Nov 2025)
- Lord John Nash - £3,000.00 (registered 4 Sep 2025)
- Charles Max Keymer - £2,500.00 (registered 27 Jul 2025)
- Lord [Philip] Harris - £25,000.00 (registered 18 Jul 2025)
- Lord Fink - £10,000.00 (registered 11 Jun 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources3
- National Theatre - £184.00 (registered 10 Jul 2026)
- Lawn Tennis Association - £510.00 (registered 10 Jul 2026)
- National Theatre - £138.00 (registered 4 Dec 2025)
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to France between 15 January 2025 and 17 January 2025 (registered 9 Feb 2026)
Written questions
Southeastern: Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of new metro rolling stock for the southeastern network on performance and costs.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
Southeastern is currently engaged in a live rolling stock procurement. The conclusion of this process will result in the full business case, with a recommended solution, being taken through stringent Department for Transport governance approvals required ...
Schools: Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Kent’s Communities of Schools model complies with her Department's guidance.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Education.
Pupils: Meningitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to ensure pupils, particularly those with imminent exams, can continue to attend schools safely in the context of the meningitis outbreak.
Answer · 8 Apr 2026
Children and young people, including those identified as contacts of cases, can and should continue to attend school or college as normal, including sitting exams and qualifications, unless directly advised otherwise by the local health protection team.Me...
Pupils: Meningitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether school children who have been in a classroom, dining hall, shared areas with someone who now has confirmed meningitis are being offered a)antibiotics b)vaccinations.
Answer · 8 Apr 2026
Children and young people, including those identified as contacts of cases, can and should continue to attend school or college as normal, including sitting exams and qualifications, unless directly advised otherwise by the local health protection team.Me...
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2026 to Question 108298, when she estimates to complete their work on producing robust repayment figures broken down by British citizen status.
Answer · 31 Mar 2026
The department and the Student Loans Company (SLC) have strengthened the quality and consistency of the data in this area and now hold reliable information on borrowers’ citizenship status, nationality and residency category.However, eligibility for stude...
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the £4bn announced in her Department's policy paper entitled Every child achieving and thriving, published on 23 February 2026, is from her Department’s existing spending envelope.
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
I refer the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 7 April 2026 to Question HL14880 and HL14881.
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the £3.5 billion funding announced in the White Paper entitled Every child achieving and thriving, published 23 February 2026, is additional funding beyond that announced at the Spending Review.
Answer · 28 Apr 2026
I refer the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks to the answer of 7 April 2026 to Question HL14880 and HL14881.
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to provide compensation for civil servants impacted by administrative failures in the civil service pension scheme.
Answer · 6 Mar 2026
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government. The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in accessing their pensions...
Speeches in the chamber
22 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
Well, that is a load of rubbish. The Secretary of State says that she is proud of the action that the Government are taking on pay. May I suggest that one of the reasons teachers are angry is that they still do not know their pay? When …
22 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
The resignation of the Prime Minister this morning was a damning indictment of the record of this Government over the last two years. Part of the Prime Minister’s legacy will be teacher morale at an all-time low. New data from the National…
27 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My right hon. Friend is always correct to be worried, but he will know that in Lord Nash’s amendment a 12-month delay was written in. I think it is reasonable to give the Government some time to bring the measure forward. As I said, the de…
27 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
As ever, the hon. Gentleman is correct. I am sure that will be picked up by the Minister in her closing remarks.
27 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I would be incredibly concerned if that were the case. Would the Minister like to intervene and indicate whether any PPS sitting behind her was doing that? [Interruption.] She says no. Well, that is good to know. It would be incredibly con…
27 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My right hon. Friend, as ever, is absolutely correct. As on the smartphone ban in schools, we have been fought every step of the way. I am just glad that right at the end of proceedings, we have managed to have a constructive discussion an…
27 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
On Friday, after Labour MPs had repeatedly blocked a social media ban for under-16s, we had a new proposal from the Government. It was not a serious response to the issue we are facing. It gave the Government three years to take unspecifie…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I really appreciate the Minister engaging with this issue. However, some people could interpret “not having access” as children not being allowed to touch their phone during the school day, but still being allowed to have it in their bag. …
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The hon. Lady is absolutely right. What she says speaks to the point that our two parties have been able to come together in the interests of children; it is just the Labour party that is standing in the way. Frankly, I know that there …
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The rise of social media really came about in a serious way in 2015 or 2016 with the rise of front-facing cameras. We took action through the Online Safety Act 2023, which was a huge Act in pushing forward the safety of children, but it ha…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Action this day—that is what is required, and that is what we are pushing for.
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
There is a huge coalition of charities backing a ban. We have tried to police content online, and it has not worked, but we know that policing age will work and make a difference. This is urgent; there is no time for delay. Real harm is ha…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I respect the hon. Gentleman, but he will know that the Government consultation is not on how to implement a social media ban, but on whether to do one at all. That is not good enough. It also says in the consultation that TikTok is good f…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
That is absolutely right. Enforcing a very strict policy is what now needs to happen off the back of the new statutory guidance. Let me now turn to the issue of social media and the Government’s approach. One of the biggest safeguarding…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The hon. Gentleman will know that we put guidance in place, but we have been explicit that it was not effective and that we needed to put it on the statute book, which is what we have been fighting for throughout the passage of the Bill. …
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
As ever, my right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why we need an explicit commitment from the Minister today. I will be delighted if she is able to give that—it would be fantastic. If there is agreement from Members across the Hou…
22 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
I want to start with some good news. After a year of resisting—insisting that a statutory ban on smartphones in schools was, to quote the Prime Minister, “unnecessary”—the Government have finally given in and we have got what we have been …
20 Apr 2026 Topical Questions
If the Secretary of State wants to start keeping children safe online, then we will stop our objections—but she is refusing to do that. In another example of so-called progressiveness, local authorities across the country are, unbelievably…
20 Apr 2026 Topical Questions
We learnt last week that in the tragic Southport case, when the headteacher warned about the killer’s increasing extreme behaviour, the social worker accused the headteacher of racially stereotyping the pupil as “a black boy with a knif…
15 Apr 2026 Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My right hon. Friend is absolutely correct. As I have said, we are in a fight for childhood, and I will keep fighting until the Government offer a ban on social media in this Bill and give us a timeframe by which they are going to do it. …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 13 Nov 2023 – 5 Jul 2024
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) · Department for Work and Pensions 27 Oct 2022 – 13 Nov 2023
Opposition posts
- Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 8 Jul 2024 – 4 Nov 2024
Committee memberships
- Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill 8 Mar 2023 – 15 Mar 2023
- Health and Social Care Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 21 Nov 2022
- Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill 20 Jul 2022 – 7 Sep 2022
- Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill 9 Feb 2022 – 9 Feb 2022
- Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (Safeguarding and Road Safety) Bill (England and Wales) 28 Oct 2021 – 3 Nov 2021
Previous seats
- Sevenoaks · Elected 1 time 12 Dec 2019 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 6898
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Laura Trott, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Laura Trott?
Laura Trott is a Member of Parliament representing Sevenoaks in the House of Commons. See Laura Trott's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Laura Trott represent?
Laura Trott sits as Conservative. See Laura Trott's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Laura Trott represent?
Laura Trott is the Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks. See Laura Trott's official Parliament profile.
How long has Laura Trott been an MP?
Laura Trott has served in the House of Commons for 6 years, 7 months. See Laura Trott's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Laura Trott?
Laura Trott has 16 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Laura Trott's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.