Member of Parliament
Sarah Dyke
Liberal Democrat MP for Glastonbury and Somerton
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Rural Affairs)
At a glanceSarah Dyke is a Liberal Democrat MP for Glastonbury and Somerton, and has represented the seat for 3 years. They currently serve as Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Rural Affairs). They have cast 347 votes in Commons divisions (60% attendance), tabled 230 written questions and registered 3 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Sarah Dyke did not vote in 228. 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 (Rural Affairs).
Current roles
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Rural Affairs) Opposition post · Opposition Department since 1 Oct 2025
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Glastonbury and Somerton Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Liberal Democrat Party since 20 Jul 2023
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Helen Morgan
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 337 of 337 shared votes
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Mr Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 249 of 249 shared votes
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Freddie van Mierlo
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 170 of 170 shared votes
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Ian Sollom
Liberal Democrat
99.7% · 336 of 337 shared votes
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Alison Bennett
Liberal Democrat
99.7% · 327 of 328 shared votes
Votes least like
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Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
7.5% · 16 of 213 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
10.0% · 23 of 231 shared votes
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Douglas McAllister
Labour
10.5% · 33 of 314 shared votes
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Dan Carden
Labour
10.5% · 23 of 220 shared votes
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Sam Rushworth
Labour
11.1% · 27 of 244 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.
Shareholdings1
- Shares in Vintage Ghetto (registered 10 Aug 2023)
Miscellaneous2
- Director of Vintage Ghetto (unpaid). (registered 10 Aug 2023)
- Trustee of Wincanton Recreational Trust. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Aug 2023)
Written questions
Written question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of levels of economic cooperation with the EU on businesses.
Awaiting an answer from the Cabinet Office.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of British Sign Language interpretation provision for deaf patients during emergency medical treatment, including for those who rely on cochlear implants
Answer · 1 Jul 2026
Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning services to meet the health needs of their local population, which includes responsibility for ensuring that there is adequate provision of British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters to support deaf p...
Childcare: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of Health and Social Care on the impact of employment eligibility thresholds on the ability of student nurses completing mandatory unpaid clinical placements to a
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
Practice learning is intended to support student development, not to meet workforce pressures. Students are not employed to provide care, do not hold contracts of employment, and are therefore unpaid. It is essential that students have the time and space ...
Childcare: Eligibility
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of mandatory unpaid clinical placements on student nurses' ability to meet the employment hour thresholds required to access Government childcare support schemes.
Answer · 29 Jun 2026
Practice learning is intended to support student development, not to meet workforce pressures. Students are not employed to provide care, do not hold contracts of employment, and are therefore unpaid. It is essential that students have the time and space ...
Voice over Internet Protocol: Broadband
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is planning to take to support households in areas where full fibre will not be available before the public switched telephone network switch-off takes place.
Answer · 23 Jun 2026
The Government is committed to ensuring that any risks from the industry-led migration of the analogue Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to digital Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) are mitigated for everyone across the UK. Ofcom have confirmed t...
Bovine Tuberculosis: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to make Animal and Plant Health Agency bovine tuberculosis testing data accessible with appropriate permissions and GDPR safeguards to private veter
Answer · 22 Jun 2026
The Animal and Plant Health Agency has an established process enabling cattle keepers to request TB testing data relating to their herds. Keepers need to complete and submit a request proforma to APHA. Keepers may then choose with whom they wish to share ...
Bovine Tuberculosis: Testing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the potential merits of creating a distinct classification of responder, separate from reactor, for non-reactor cattle that test positive
Answer · 22 Jun 2026
The recently published recommended Bovine TB Control Strategy for England (https://tbhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-Recommended-Bovine-TB-Strategy.pdf) proposes facilitating wider access to privately funded ancillary bovine TB testing to suppor...
Mileage Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation was undertaken with employers prior to the decision to increase the Approved Mileage Allowance Payment rate from 45p to 55p per mile: and what assessment was made of the financial impact on employe
Answer · 18 Jun 2026
The Government’s decision to uprate the Approved Mileage Allowance Payment and simplified expense rates for 2026/27, the first uprating of these rates since 2011, is in recognition of the pressures facing drivers as a result of the effects of the Iran war...
Early day motions
| 16 Jul 2026 | 2026 Sustainable Farming Incentive | 1 sig. |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Fire ponds | 1 sig. |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Royal Town Planning Institute South West Awards for Planning Excellence 2026 | 5 sig. |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Close season for hare shooting | 19 sig. |
| 22 Jun 2026 | Ham Hill Country Park | 4 sig. |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month | 10 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
6 Jul 2026 Environmental Protection
I thank the Minister for setting out this statutory instrument, which the Liberal Democrats support. For too long, the system regulating who can transport and manage our waste has relied on a simple registration scheme, scarcely able to…
6 Jul 2026 Civil Service Pensions
My team are dealing with 18 civil service pension scheme cases. One of them involves Frosoulla, from Glastonbury, who took partial retirement earlier this year to care for her 92-year-old mother. She has made more than 15 calls to Capita a…
6 Jul 2026 Defence Investment Plan
I recently visited RNAS Yeovilton and saw the welcome improvements to single living accommodation for serving personnel at HMS Heron. However, funding to refurbish or replace 14,000 service homes across the country—such as those in nearby …
6 Jul 2026 Defence Investment Plan
6. What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of increasing funding for the defence investment plan.
30 Jun 2026 National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
A retired paediatrician and constituent told me recently that after giving 50 years’ service to the children of the NHS, she was devastated by the treatment of mothers and babies and loyal staff, whose concerns are routinely ignored, as wh…
30 Jun 2026 High Streets
The Minister is talking about driving footfall, but driving footfall in rural areas is sometimes quite difficult because of the sparsity. Rural high streets face significant challenges—if car parking charges are forced on our local authori…
30 Jun 2026 High Streets
We are talking about vacant shops, but there is also a lot of antisocial behaviour on our high streets, which in some cases is largely due to the existence of vacant shops. I was speaking to the headteacher of a school in Glastonbury that …
24 Jun 2026 Farming Road Map and Profitability Review
Instability in the middle east is a stark reminder that food security cannot be taken for granted. British farmers are the best in the world and they get up every single day to put food on our tables. While I welcome the farming road map, …
24 Jun 2026 Farming: Financial Sustainability
It is an honour to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Turner. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Northumberland (David Smith) on securing this important debate. Farmers are the foundation of communities across the country, but Britis…
23 Jun 2026 Defence Spending and Readiness
As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on women in defence, I know that women make up only 11% of the regular forces. We cannot talk about defence readiness while failing to recruit and retain half the population. Does my hon. Frien…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
The Minister is clearly setting out how the Indonesian rainforests and peatlands deliver irreplaceable global climate benefits. We know that conservation efforts have been severely undermined because of the funding issue and she is setting…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
I thank the hon. Member for bringing forward this important debate. As she is setting out, peatlands store more carbon than all the world’s forests combined, whether that be on the Somerset levels in my constituency or in the rainforests o…
23 Jun 2026 Fly-tipping: Residential Areas
It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn) for securing this important debate. The Government estimate that there were 1.26 million fly-tipping i…
22 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
T9. This week, temperatures in Somerset are forecast to exceed 35°C, and some classrooms are set to breach safe working thresholds by as much as 10°C, risking serious disruption to learning. What immediate steps is the Secretary of Stat…
4 Jun 2026 Pride Month
The hon. Member rightly says that much progress has been made towards equality across the LGBT family, and that many lesbians are now standing and being prominent voices in the political sphere. However, lesbian voices are so often under-r…
4 Jun 2026 Business of the House
In rural areas like Somerset, poor public transport prevents young people from accessing education, employment and training. At a roundtable that I held in the constituency earlier this week, Strode college representatives told me that enr…
4 Jun 2026 Support for Farmers: Fuel Costs
May I start by saying how deeply saddened I was by the news that three Royal Navy personnel based out of Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton in my constituency tragically lost their lives on a training exercise in Devon the night before las…
3 Jun 2026 South East Water: Disruption of Supply
Leaving thousands of South East Water customers without access to drinking water has become a pattern of neglect, enabled by a water system that fails to hold water companies accountable for their actions. Whether it is environmental disru…
20 May 2026 Defence Readiness
I will not, I am afraid, due to time. A good food Bill would also give our food system the long-term framework it badly needs. A national food strategy is needed now more than ever. Ignoring the largest British business sector is short-…
20 May 2026 Defence Readiness
I extend my condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Lance Bombardier Ciara Sullivan, who sadly died on Friday following an incident at the Royal Windsor horse show. It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bury St Edm…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Previous seats
- Somerton and Frome · Elected 1 time 20 Jul 2023 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 3545 2414
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Sarah Dyke, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Sarah Dyke?
Sarah Dyke is a Member of Parliament representing Glastonbury and Somerton in the House of Commons. See Sarah Dyke's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Sarah Dyke represent?
Sarah Dyke sits as Liberal Democrat. See Sarah Dyke's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Sarah Dyke represent?
Sarah Dyke is the Member of Parliament for Glastonbury and Somerton. See Sarah Dyke's official Parliament profile.
How long has Sarah Dyke been an MP?
Sarah Dyke has served in the House of Commons for 3 years. See Sarah Dyke's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Sarah Dyke?
Sarah Dyke has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Sarah Dyke's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.