Member of Parliament
Helen Morgan
Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)
At a glanceHelen Morgan is a Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire, and has represented the seat for 4 years, 7 months. They currently serve as Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care). They have cast 426 votes in Commons divisions (74% attendance), tabled 1,571 written questions and registered 5 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Helen Morgan did not vote in 149. 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 Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care).
Current roles
- Health Bill Committee since 11 Jun 2026
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care) Opposition post · Opposition Department since 18 Sep 2024
- North Shropshire Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Liberal Democrat Party since 16 Dec 2021
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sarah Dyke
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 337 of 337 shared votes
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Susan Murray
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 320 of 320 shared votes
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Richard Foord
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 318 of 318 shared votes
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Freddie van Mierlo
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 221 of 221 shared votes
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Liz Jarvis
Liberal Democrat
99.8% · 410 of 411 shared votes
Votes least like
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Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
10.3% · 26 of 252 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
12.4% · 36 of 290 shared votes
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Neil Coyle
Labour
13.0% · 44 of 339 shared votes
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Catherine West
Labour
13.2% · 34 of 258 shared votes
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Douglas McAllister
Labour
13.6% · 52 of 382 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 MP1
- David Evans - £2,000.00 (registered 18 Mar 2026)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
- London Marathon Events Ltd - £350.00 (registered 12 May 2026)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)2
- Residential in Cumbria (registered 7 Jan 2022)
- Residential in Buckinghamshire (registered 7 Jan 2022)
Miscellaneous1
- A Vice President of the Local Government Association. This is an unpaid role. (registered 24 Feb 2023)
Written questions
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will outline the expected timeline for incorporating new evidence, including on the Stockholm3 test, into the UK National Screening Committee’s prostate cancer screening model.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Prostate Cancer Screening Model, used by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) to make its recommendation, was commissioned from modelling experts at the Sheffield Centre of Health and Related Research (SCHARR). SCHARR has been commissioned and...
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in reference to the Department’s written statement on Prostate Cancer Screening on the 2nd June, what specific process the Department will use to update the UK National Screening Committee’s prosta
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Prostate Cancer Screening Model, used by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) to make its recommendation, was commissioned from modelling experts at the Sheffield Centre of Health and Related Research (SCHARR). SCHARR has been commissioned and...
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, hen he plans to respond to Question 4447, 10962 and 15024 tabled by the hon. Member for North Shropshire on 29 May, 17 June and 1 July 2026.
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Supported Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help improve transparency in developer communications in the retirement housing sector.
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The government is taking no specific steps to improve transparency in developer communications in the retirement housing sector. However, retirement housing providers must comply with relevant consumer legislation. Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, all ...
Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the consumer protections available to purchasers of new-build homes where a developer rejects a formal complaint about the p
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
The Government expects all housebuilders to deliver high-quality homes and to swiftly resolve issues if things go wrong. If the developer is registered with a consumer code they may be able to seek redress through them in the first two years after purch...
Housing: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent guidance his Department has issued to help ensure that local planning authority requirements for traditional building aesthetics are not cited by developers as a reas
Answer · 14 Jul 2026
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 123094 on 31 March 2026. Accessibility standards in new homes, including M4(1), M4(2) and M4(3), are set out in statutory guidance accompanying the Building Regulations (Approved Document M ,Volu...
Sheltered Housing: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance exists to help ensure that building managers do not rely on welfare checks, curtain-management or the provision of fans as substitutes for addressing underlying bui
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) is used to assess health and safety hazards in homes, including excess heat. The HHSRS evaluates the potential risk of harm to an occupier and rates the seriousness of any hazard identified.My Department...
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many domiciliary dental visits were undertaken by the Community Dental Service in England in each year since 2010/11.
Answer · 13 Jul 2026
We do not hold data on the wait times for domiciliary care or the number of appointments carried out by Community Dental Services (CDS).Domiciliary dental services are commissioned locally by integrated care boards to support those who are unable to acces...
Early day motions
| 29 Jun 2026 | Protections for UK egg producers | 27 sig. |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Abolition of Healthwatch | 35 sig. |
| 1 Jun 2026 | NHS maternity services | 25 sig. |
| 1 Jun 2026 | A&E corridor care | 25 sig. |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Palantir and the NHS | 38 sig. |
| 18 May 2026 | Access to banking services | 29 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
If a person has a pram, heavy luggage or a bike, or is disabled, it is difficult to use the railway if there is no step-free access. Further to the Secretary of State’s answer to the hon. Member for Mid Cheshire (Andrew Cooper), can she ou…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
May I associate myself with the Minister’s comments and thanks to everybody who has been involved in working on the Bill? I have also enjoyed my time on the Committee, despite the heat. I hope that the Minister remains in place when we com…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
Amendment 77 is a probing amendment in the light of our previous discussions in Committee about the extensive powers that the Bill transfers to the Secretary of State. It would make all secondary legislation under the Bill subject to the a…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I beg to move amendment 77, in clause 68, page 47, line 27, leave out from “to” to the end of line 28 and insert “the affirmative procedure”. This amendment ensures that all secondary legislation as a result of this bill is subject to t…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
In terms of ICBs and their responsibilities to veterans, there are specialist veterans’ services around the country. One exists in my constituency, at the orthopaedic hospital in Gobowen, which has an excellent veterans’ centre. Yet the co…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I thank the Minister for her response, and I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn.
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
New clause 108, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Alison Bennett), will place a duty on ICBs to collect and publish data on the number of patients who died while waiting for end-of-life care. This is a fairly self-explana…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I thank the Minister for her response. I think it is important that we keep an eye on the power of medical misinformation or disinformation, and expand that consideration to things such as therapy chatbots. It is not just an online problem…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
It is really important not to blame people who have seen convincing information online or have been given convincing information by people who ought to know better—including at political party conferences. We need to battle the source of t…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I absolutely agree. My mother and grandmother both had polio, which nobody would expect to experience in this day and age. That same grandmother’s sister died of diphtheria, and her father had smallpox. That was all just over 100 years ago…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause would place a duty on the Secretary of State “to publish a strategy to combat anti-vaccine and medical disinformation”. We increasingly see the impact of anti-va…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
My hon. Friend the Member for Guildford has specifically requested that I press the new clause to a vote because she feels so strongly about the issues in her area. Question put, That the clause be read a Second time.
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Zöe Franklin) for tabling the new clause. She has asked me to speak about dental deserts in Surrey and East Hampshire, the area that …
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I am suddenly cast back to 31 years ago, when I was choosing my subjects for the final year of my history degree. One of the early modern history papers was provocatively entitled “Women and other deviants”. It was called that to draw atte…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
New clause 57 would ensure that the average waiting time for diagnosis and treatment for elective conditions for women’s health issues does not exceed the average waiting time for wider NHS elective treatment. New clause 58 would establish…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Sixteenth sitting)
I rise to speak to new clauses 53 and 54, tabled in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire), and new clause 65, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron). New clause …
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Sixteenth sitting)
I thank the Minister for outlining the existing statutory framework. I agree that it ought to be sufficient, but there are high-profile instances where it has not been, so I look forward to hearing more from her on Report about how the cu…
16 Jul 2026 Health Bill (Sixteenth sitting)
New clause 36 would introduce a mandatory individual duty for members of NHS trust and NHS foundation trust boards to escalate evidence of systemic medical malpractice to the Care Quality Commission, the Department of Health and Social Car…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government) · Opposition Department 5 Jul 2024 – 18 Sep 2024
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Local Government) · Opposition Department 11 Jul 2022 – 30 May 2024
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Levelling up, Housing and Communities) · Opposition Department 11 Jul 2022 – 30 May 2024
Committee memberships
- Renters (Reform) Bill 8 Nov 2023 – 28 Nov 2023
- Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill 14 Dec 2022 – 11 Jan 2023
- Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill 26 Oct 2022 – 2 Nov 2022
Previous seats
- North Shropshire · Elected 1 time 16 Dec 2021 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- North Shropshire 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 6104
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
1st Floor Offices,, Maypole Court,, Wem, SY4 5AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Helen Morgan, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Helen Morgan?
Helen Morgan is a Member of Parliament representing North Shropshire in the House of Commons. See Helen Morgan's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Helen Morgan represent?
Helen Morgan sits as Liberal Democrat. See Helen Morgan's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Helen Morgan represent?
Helen Morgan is the Member of Parliament for North Shropshire. See Helen Morgan's official Parliament profile.
How long has Helen Morgan been an MP?
Helen Morgan has served in the House of Commons for 4 years, 7 months. See Helen Morgan's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Helen Morgan?
Helen Morgan has 5 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Helen Morgan's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.