At a glanceDan Aldridge is a Labour MP for Weston-super-Mare, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 384 votes in Commons divisions (67% attendance), tabled 78 written questions and registered 4 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Dan Aldridge did not vote in 191. 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
Current roles
- Business and Trade Committee Committee since 27 Oct 2025
- Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls Committee since 27 Oct 2025
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Weston-super-Mare Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 380 of 380 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 375 of 375 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 373 of 373 shared votes
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Sir Mark Tami
Labour
100.0% · 372 of 372 shared votes
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Laura Kyrke-Smith
Labour
100.0% · 367 of 367 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 108 shared votes
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Nick Timothy
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 246 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 231 shared votes
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Dame Harriett Baldwin
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 285 shared votes
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Julia Lopez
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 280 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
- Google UK Ltd - £2,908.02 (registered 23 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Taiwan between 28 March 2026 and 03 April 2026 (registered 23 Apr 2026)
Miscellaneous2
- Advisory Board Member of Software Sustainability Institute. This is an unpaid role. (registered 25 Jul 2024)
- Trustee of Somewhere to Go charity in Weston-super-Mare. This is an unpaid role. (registered 25 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Classroom Assistants: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review whether the pay of teaching assistants adequately reflects the responsibilities, qualifications and duties of the role, including teaching classes and supporting pupils with complex
Answer · 22 Jul 2026
School support staff, including teaching assistants, play a vital role in children’s education, and that is why this government is establishing the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB).The SSSNB will be a new statutory body specifically for schoo...
Watersure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she will review the eligibility criteria for the WaterSure scheme to ensure that households with a medically certified need to use more water are eligible for support regardles
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The Government has committed to reform the WaterSure scheme, including eligibility criteria. These reforms were consulted on July to September 2025. The changes to the scheme will expand eligibility to include households in receipt of non-means-tested dis...
Gender Based Violence: Criminal Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures the Government is taking to strengthen public confidence in the prioritisation of tackling violence against women and girls through criminal justice system.
Answer · 21 Jul 2026
Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a top priority for this Government. Our ambition is to halve the levels of these crimes within a decade. To do this we must take steps to reform the police response to VAWG, bring the police closer to th...
Miscarriage: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review national guidance on communication and aftercare following miscarriage, including to (a) ensure consistency and trauma-informed practice across NHS tru
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
As set out in the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy, we will closely review the results of the recent report on the Tommy’s Graded Model of Miscarriage Care pilot study, as part of our wider work on miscarriage care.My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State...
Universal Credit: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of treating student maintenance loans as income on Universal Credit claimants seeking to retrain for occupations with workforce shortages.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The primary source of financial support for students comes from the student support system through various loans and grants designed for their needs. Students are unable to claim Universal Credit if they are studying full-time, unless they meet specific e...
Maternity Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing pregnant women and new mothers diagnosed with cancer to defer statutory maternity leave until the completion of their treatment.
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
Parental leave and pay entitlements are being considered as part of the Government’s Parental Pay and Leave Review. The Review will report in early 2027 with next steps for taking any reforms forward to implementation.
Mental Health Services: Fathers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking through the Men's Health Strategy to improve support given to fathers and partners during the postnatal period and following a traumatic pregnancy or birth.
Answer · 4 Jun 2026
The Government recognises the significant physical and psychological consequences of birth trauma and the devastating impact this can have on women and their families, including men. We remain fully committed to improving the quality and consistency of ca...
Nurseries
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has any guidance around restrictions being placed by nurseries on hours during which government funded childcare hours can be accessed, such as limiting provision to specific times of the
Answer · 29 Apr 2026
The ‘Early Education and Childcare’ statutory guidance states that local authorities should encourage providers to offer flexible packages of free hours, which will enable children to access regular, high-quality provision, while maximising flexibility fo...
Speeches in the chamber
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
Absolutely. All the officials we worked with were fantastic. The UK-India tech security initiative is the right framework at the right moment. It covers the technologies that will define this country and it brings together Government, i…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
I absolutely agree. One of the things I took back to my constituency was about how I engage with schoolchildren and college students, but that point is much wider; we should be really ambitious in that cross-cultural dialogue. There is not…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
As ever, I agree with my hon. Friend. Specifically on the point about how we build our domestic capacity, there is something very exciting about the new £500 million investment in sovereign AI. It would be great to hear how that investmen…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
I absolutely agree. One of the most exciting things about the UK-India partnership is the complementarity of our needs. To build on my hon. Friend’s point about that partnership on critical minerals, an example of our partnership is the UK…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
I thank the hon. Member for his question. We must take those considerations really seriously, and they are absolutely part of a wide-ranging conversation that we have with all our trading partners. We should be aiming for the best out of o…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
Absolutely. Building on that point, many of us who made that visit think we need to address the problem that too much of British public life is working with an image of India that is frankly decades out of date. Many still think of India a…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
I thank my hon. Friend, who accompanied me to India. It was a phenomenally insightful visit. The human connection is not incidental to this debate; it is the very foundation of it. I use this opportunity to give a special shout-out to p…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
When I was on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, we visited Queen’s and talked about its cyber-security prowess. The ecosystem in the UK is very much connected—something we are very proud of—so I thank the hon. Gentleman for his inter…
28 Apr 2026 UK-India Technology Security Initiative
I beg to move, That this House has considered the UK-India Technology Security Initiative. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Alec. As a member of the Business and Trade Committee, I recently visited India, alongside…
14 Apr 2026 Cancer Treatment
Weston-super-Mare is a growing, thriving town with a population comparable to the city of Bath, yet cancer patients regularly make a round trip of 90 minutes by car or more than three hours by public transport to Bristol to get their treat…
14 Apr 2026 Cancer Treatment
13. What steps his Department is taking to support the treatment of cancer patients.
12 Mar 2026 Carnivals
Thank you, Mrs Harris; it is an honour to serve under your chairship. I am grateful to the hon. Members for Glastonbury and Somerton (Sarah Dyke) and for Wells and Mendip Hills (Tessa Munt), whose passion for Somerset carnivals and comm…
11 Mar 2026 UK-based Tech Companies
I just want to pay tribute to a number of lecturers at the universities in Northern Ireland. I used to work for the British Computer Society and the Northern Ireland branch was phenomenal. If the hon. Gentleman has not yet made contact wit…
11 Mar 2026 UK-based Tech Companies
I held a roundtable in my constituency with the Startup Coalition just two weeks ago. We found that one of the biggest barriers was not an absence of talent or expertise in my town, but a poverty of access to information, advice and guidan…
18 Dec 2025 Business of the House
A very merry Christmas to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and to everybody in this place. In a historic win against Chelmsford on 6 December—it is another football success story—Weston-super-Mare football club, for the first time in our hist…
19 Nov 2025 Northwich Railway Station: Accessibility
My hon. Friend points to a frustration shared by me and lots of campaigners in Weston-super-Mare, where we have seen missed opportunities over and over again to give people the basic dignity of access in travel. I am pleased that we in Wes…
30 Oct 2025 Ageing and End-of-life Care
I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing this debate. It has been a pleasure to see his passion for his community and for the people of Northern Ireland, especially as a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs Commi…
30 Oct 2025 Business of the House
Weston-super-Mare and Worle residents are rightly proud of their community, but abandoned commercial waste and rubbish filling its once proud public spaces undermines our town and civic pride, and the burden of cleaning up has been shifted…
28 Oct 2025 Connected and Automated Vehicles
As my hon. Friend mentioned JLR, it is important to reflect on the necessity for cyber-resilience. Do she and the Minister agree that we cannot progress with such technologies without a national push towards cyber-resilience?
28 Oct 2025 Connected and Automated Vehicles
The success of automated and autonomous vehicles will depend on infrastructure—not just roads but connectivity, data and mapping systems—but if the infrastructure is upgraded only in big cities, we will have a two-tier system and leave beh…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Northern Ireland Affairs Committee 28 Oct 2024 – 8 Dec 2025
- Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] 18 Dec 2024 – 16 Jan 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Dan Aldridge, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Dan Aldridge?
Dan Aldridge is a Member of Parliament representing Weston-super-Mare in the House of Commons. See Dan Aldridge's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Dan Aldridge represent?
Dan Aldridge sits as Labour. See Dan Aldridge's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Dan Aldridge represent?
Dan Aldridge is the Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare. See Dan Aldridge's official Parliament profile.
How long has Dan Aldridge been an MP?
Dan Aldridge has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Dan Aldridge's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Dan Aldridge?
Dan Aldridge has 4 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Dan Aldridge's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.