Member of Parliament
Mr Louie French
Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup
Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)
At a glanceMr Louie French is a Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, and has represented the seat for 4 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport). They have cast 390 votes in Commons divisions (68% attendance), tabled 323 written questions and registered 9 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mr Louie French did not vote in 180. 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 Minister (Culture, Media and Sport).
Current roles
- Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) Opposition post · Department for Culture, Media and Sport since 22 Jul 2025
- Old Bexley and Sidcup Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 2 Dec 2021
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Bradley Thomas
Conservative
100.0% · 383 of 383 shared votes
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Greg Smith
Conservative
100.0% · 375 of 375 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 374 of 374 shared votes
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 370 of 370 shared votes
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Lewis Cocking
Conservative
100.0% · 368 of 368 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
0.7% · 2 of 307 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
0.9% · 3 of 334 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
1.0% · 3 of 297 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
1.0% · 2 of 200 shared votes
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Gen Kitchen
Labour
1.2% · 4 of 324 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 MP2
- Andrew Dawber - £3,000.00 (registered 15 Apr 2026)
- Andrew Dawber - £5,000.00 (registered 20 Oct 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources5
- The Professional Darts Corporation - £2,000.00 (registered 27 Jan 2026)
- Ascot Racecourse - £250.00 (registered 3 Nov 2025)
- Allwyn National Lottery - £1,190.00 (registered 20 Oct 2025)
- Silverstone - £1,400.00 (registered 21 Jul 2025)
- The Lawn Tennis Association - £1,280.00 (registered 21 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Estonia between 12 October 2025 and 15 October 2025 (registered 3 Nov 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- Shareholding below registrable threshold in Tilney Smith & Williamson (wealth management). This was linked to previous employment before entering Parliament. (registered 31 Dec 2021)
Written questions
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) foreign national offenders and (b) immediate family members of foreign national offenders were removed from the UK under the Facilitated Return Scheme in the last 12 months.
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
Since this Government came to power almost 10,000 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been returned, an increase of 36%, and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.The information you have requested reg...
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid to to (a) foreign national offenders and (b) immediate family members of foreign national offenders removed from the UK under the Facilitated Return Scheme in the last 12 months.
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
Since this Government came to power almost 10,000 foreign national offenders (FNOs) have been returned, an increase of 36%, and we will continue to do everything we can to remove these vile criminals from our streets.The information you have requested reg...
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of drivers using learner driver plates to work.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
No assessment has been made of the number of learner drivers driving for work, although learner drivers must be accompanied by an eligible supervising driver on public roads. The safety of anyone driving on our roads is a priority, and that includes those...
Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current system of electronic monitoring of offenders.
Answer · 18 Jun 2026
The number of individuals on the electronic monitoring (EM) caseload was most recently published in April 2026. The data from this publication is shown below for the post-release, court sentence and immigration cohorts combined, for the months June 2025 t...
Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of offenders in the electronic monitoring cohort that were unmonitored in (a) May 2024-May 2025, and (b) May 2025-May 2026.
Answer · 18 Jun 2026
The number of individuals on the electronic monitoring (EM) caseload was most recently published in April 2026. The data from this publication is shown below for the post-release, court sentence and immigration cohorts combined, for the months June 2025 t...
Electronic Tagging
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of offenders in the electronic monitoring cohort in (a) May 2024-May 2025, and (b) May 2025-May 2026.
Answer · 18 Jun 2026
The number of individuals on the electronic monitoring (EM) caseload was most recently published in April 2026. The data from this publication is shown below for the post-release, court sentence and immigration cohorts combined, for the months June 2025 t...
Football: Sportsgrounds
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the safety of artificial grass football pitches.
Answer · 16 Jun 2026
The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount. Artificial Grass Pitches (AGPs) provide durable, safe, year-round playing surfaces, helping more people to access the benefits of physical activity. We remain comm...
Tickets: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has used the additional enforcement powers for secondary ticketing under section 216 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 on the use of bots to purchase tic
Answer · 25 Mar 2026
Consumer law enforcement is principally the responsibility of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Local Authority Trading Standards. Section 216 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 grants the CMA enforcement functions un...
Speeches in the chamber
8 Jul 2026 National Youth Strategy
I thank the hon. Gentleman for one of his famous interventions. I am pleased that his son enjoys camping; I am not sure I am as sold on a camping holiday in this weather. He is right that it teaches young people key life skills that they c…
8 Jul 2026 National Youth Strategy
As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McVey. I congratulate the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Harpreet Uppal) on securing this important debate. We all recognise that this issue is increasingly important to ou…
7 Jul 2026 Future of British Horseracing
I think we are beyond this “he said, she said” about what happened in previous Parliaments. The commitment from the previous Government was clear that these checks must be frictionless. The Minister also said at the time that the checks sh…
7 Jul 2026 Future of British Horseracing
As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and highlight that I have visited and met a number of trainers in my two years as shado…
17 Jun 2026 Engagements
Q9. I am sure that we all share the thoughts about Jo Cox and her family who are here today.I know that the Deputy Prime Minister has always struggled with police visibility—even when they are stood behind him—but does he agree with Sir…
16 Jun 2026 Thames Water
What assurances can the Government give my constituents across Bexley that the £88 million of investment that is under way in our community to secure our fresh drinking water supply for the next 50 years is not derailed by this Government …
1 Jun 2026 Child Sexual Offender Data
My hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech. Does she agree that although the public perception seems to be that these crimes are a northern towns issue, there are also young girls who have historically been abused in London? It is disgrac…
27 Apr 2026 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
The point that my hon. Friend is making is a very accurate description of what is happening in my local area of Bexley, where developers are trying to argue that greenfield sites are now ripe for development because of the Government’s pla…
27 Apr 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response Update
When he was asked on 20 April why there is no record of his and Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Palantir in Washington, the Prime Minister said: “That was a routine meeting in the course of a visit I was on in the US.”—[Official Report, …
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
On financial risk assessments, also known as affordability checks, will the Minister pass on a query relating to the gambling White Paper? My understanding from the previous Gambling Minister and from the then shadow Gambling Minister, who…
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
I appreciate that the hon. Lady is covering for another Minister. However, I made the point in a previous debate that the Government seem to be saying that they are keen to reduce the harm to children from gambling and that they particular…
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
I do not believe I can answer my right hon. Friend’s question, but it might be something that other Members want to correct via a point of order to ensure that, as we have this important discussion, we have all the facts in front of us. Th…
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
I thank the hon. Member for making that distinction; I understood it as being something to do with whether children watched racing. The point I was trying to make was that times have changed. When I worked in a shop—some 20-odd years ago, …
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
I apologise, Mrs Harris.
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
That is an interesting point about how bookmakers operate. My grandfather was really keen on horseracing when I was growing up; I remember often standing in the corner of the betting shop while he had a gamble or watching horseracing on th…
23 Apr 2026 Gambling Advertising
As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank the hon. Members for Halesowen (Alex Ballinger) and for Worthing West (Dr Cooper) for se…
20 Apr 2026 Security Vetting
My question to the Prime Minister is straightforward: did Morgan McSweeney or any of the Prime Minister’s advisers—past or present—know about this issue before last Thursday?
16 Apr 2026 Euro 2028
The Secretary of State criticises the previous Conservative Government, but national sports bodies are fully aware that this Labour Government have cut sports funding, and increased regulation and taxes on clubs, and are putting at risk sp…
16 Apr 2026 Euro 2028
I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The successful bid to host the Euros in 2028 made under the previous Conservative Government has enormous potential to economically and culturally benefit the UK,…
25 Mar 2026 Voluntary Groups and Community Centres
As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Ms McVey. For transparency reasons, I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and note that I am the honorary president of a local Royal …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Culture, Media and Sport) · Department for Culture, Media and Sport 19 Jul 2024 – 22 Jul 2025
Committee memberships
- Football Governance Bill [HL] 14 May 2025 – 17 Jun 2025
- Public Accounts Committee 15 Mar 2022 – 26 Jun 2023
- Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill 8 Mar 2023 – 15 Mar 2023
- Procurement Bill [HL] 25 Jan 2023 – 21 Feb 2023
- Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill 26 Jan 2022 – 2 Feb 2022
- Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL] 19 Jan 2022 – 27 Jan 2022
Previous seats
- Old Bexley and Sidcup · Elected 1 time 2 Dec 2021 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Eltham 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 5446
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mr Louie French, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mr Louie French?
Mr Louie French is a Member of Parliament representing Old Bexley and Sidcup in the House of Commons. See Mr Louie French's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mr Louie French represent?
Mr Louie French sits as Conservative. See Mr Louie French's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mr Louie French represent?
Mr Louie French is the Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup. See Mr Louie French's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mr Louie French been an MP?
Mr Louie French has served in the House of Commons for 4 years, 7 months. See Mr Louie French's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mr Louie French?
Mr Louie French has 9 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mr Louie French's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.