At a glanceMike Martin is a Liberal Democrat MP for Tunbridge Wells, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 336 votes in Commons divisions (58% attendance), tabled 251 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mike Martin did not vote in 239. 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
- Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill Committee since 9 Feb 2026
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee since 26 Jun 2025
- Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art Committee since 6 Feb 2025
- National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) Committee since 13 Nov 2024
- Defence Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Tunbridge Wells Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Liberal Democrat Party since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Alison Bennett
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 308 of 308 shared votes
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Caroline Voaden
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 298 of 298 shared votes
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Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 294 of 294 shared votes
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Mr Joshua Reynolds
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 276 of 276 shared votes
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Dr Roz Savage
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 267 of 267 shared votes
Votes least like
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Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
12.4% · 24 of 194 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
14.2% · 31 of 219 shared votes
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Fabian Hamilton
Labour
14.5% · 28 of 193 shared votes
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Neil Coyle
Labour
14.7% · 41 of 279 shared votes
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Douglas McAllister
Labour
14.8% · 45 of 305 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 earnings1
- Book Royalties - Hurst and Co (registered 5 Dec 2025)
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP18
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 6 Jul 2026)
- Yuko Hasegawa - £2,000.00 (registered 12 Jun 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £2,300.00 (registered 12 Jun 2026)
- Carl Michel - £1,500.00 (registered 12 Jun 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 12 May 2026)
- Carl Michel - £1,000.00 (registered 30 Apr 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 7 Apr 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 5 Mar 2026)
- Carl Michel - £2,000.00 (registered 5 Mar 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 5 Feb 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 5 Feb 2026)
- Dominic Mathon - £800.00 (registered 5 Feb 2026)
- John Harley - £2,000.00 (registered 15 Dec 2025)
- Jonathon Goodfellow - £1,000.00 (registered 8 Dec 2025)
- Jonathon Goodfellow - £1,500.00 (registered 9 Dec 2025)
- Phillip Kerle - £1,000.00 (registered 5 Dec 2025)
- Leslie Hurst - £1,000.00 (registered 5 Dec 2025)
- Leslie Hurst - £1,500.00 (registered 5 Dec 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
- Simon Ruddick - £948.00 (registered 13 Jul 2026)
Written questions
NHS Kent and Medway
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department held with representatives of NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board in the 2025-26 financial year; and how many of those meeti
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The information is not held in the format requested, and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
GP Surgeries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides guidance to GPs on the suitability of premises for the delivery of GP services.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
Providers are expected to comply with Regulation 15 Premises and equipment in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. Premises where care and treatment are delivered must be clean, and suitable for the intended purpose...
General Practitioners: Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current ratio of GPs to patients is in Tunbridge Wells constituency; how this compares to five years ago; whether a threshold exists for the ratio of GPs to patients above which additional
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
Tunbridge Wells had 5.1 full time equivalent doctors in general practice (GP) per 10,000 patients in March 2026, the most recent comparable month for which data is available. This compares with 5.2 in March 2021.Each practice is required to provide servic...
NHS Kent and Medway: Neighbourhood Health Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Kent and Medway ICB has submitted Neighbourhood Health Centre proposals for (i) Lonsdale, (ii) Grosvenor & St James, (iii) Kingswood and (iv) Speldhurst & Greggswood GP surgeries.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
We are working to deliver 250 neighbourhood health centres by 2035. The first 120 centres, expected by 2030, will be delivered through the NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild Programme using a mix of public investment and a new model of public–private partnerships....
General Practitioners: Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many extra GP appointments were delivered in Tunbridge Wells constituency in 2025/26 compared to 2024/25.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The following table shows general practice (GP) appointment data for the Tunbridge Wells constituency:Financial yearAppointments in GPs2024/25622,6442025/26614,065We are working to expand capacity in GPs which will help deliver more appointments to patien...
General Practitioners: Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to GP services in the Tunbridge Wells constituency.
Answer · 2 Jul 2026
We are increasing general practice (GP) capacity and funding to improve access. The Department has not held discussions with the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board. It is for the relevant commissioner to ensure that appropriate provision is in plac...
General Practitioners: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of available section 106 funding has been spent on improving GP services in the last 12 months, and what this equates to in pounds sterling, in (i) England, (ii) Kent and (iii) Tunb
Answer · 2 Jul 2026
We recognise the challenges significant housing and population growth can place on primary care infrastructure.The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government to determine ...
General Practitioners: Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department have had discussions with NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board on the use of section 106 funding from new housing developments to expand access to GP services and improv
Answer · 2 Jul 2026
We recognise the challenges significant housing and population growth can place on primary care infrastructure.The Department of Health and Social Care continues to work closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government to determine ...
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 National Energy System Operator: Blackout Risk
I am curious about this mantra that there have not been any blackouts. Over the past six months, businesses in the St John’s area of Tunbridge Wells have complained of blackouts. I surveyed my constituents who live in the area, and 60% sai…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
Does the Minister think that the Secretary of State exercised those duties well when, under the Blair Government, Macquarie was allowed to come into Thames Water and South East Water and asset strip those companies?
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
We have a similar problem with South East Water, which is probably the second-worst water company in the United Kingdom after Thames Water. With South East Water, too, this Labour Government have been too timid. Does my hon. Friend agree t…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
We actually have examples of water companies lying. We had South East Water coming to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in January and giving false evidence—so much so that the Chair considered bringing it back for being in…
14 Jul 2026 Extreme Heat: Preparedness
Might the Minister comment briefly on the Government’s approach to water? In the recent heatwaves, South East Water reported that water usage went up by 15% because people were taking extra showers and so on. She will know that South East …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
The right hon. and learned Lady advocates leaving the ECHR. I assume that is after a process of analysis, so could she tell the House two good things that the ECHR does for British citizens?
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Will the right hon. and learned Lady give way?
13 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
There are a number of options on the table for Kent, and no matter which one the Minister chooses, we will need to do some tidying up of ward and division boundaries, because there are vast disparities between the number of electors and so…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I will not list the constituencies of all the hon. and right hon. Members who have contributed; they know who they are and I thank them very much. Three themes came out of this debate that were interesting and bear repeating. First, we …
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I specifically said that I am fully in favour of moving to autonomy as fast as we can. All I questioned was whether we could go from a PowerPoint concept for multiple vessels to their being at sea on operations within nine years. That is a…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I am afraid that I will not because I want to make progress. We are privileging a good diplomatic relationship, which would weather the storm of our pulling out of GCAP, over military capability. We must consider whether we want manned …
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I will make some progress because I am having eyes made at me by Madam Deputy Speaker. The DIP commits £8.6 billion to the global combat air programme, which is the sixth-generation fighter jet that we are building with Italy and Japan.…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I agree with everything that the hon. Member has just said, and I thank him. However, all I am highlighting is that, on past performance, going from PowerPoints to ships at sea in nine years with several classes of ship seems extremely ris…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I will give way to the former Minister.
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
The original sin is divorcing the strategic defence review from the DIP—divorcing the vision from the resources. For the past year, the Department has been arguing first with itself about whether it can downgrade some of the things in the …
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
All I will say is that the defence of the realm is the most serious issue for any Government.
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I think we have all heard stories of firms such as the one in the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, whether in our own constituencies or in the conversations we have as Members of Parliament who are interested in defence. It has been catastro…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
This actually speaks to the delay. Had the DIP come out when it was meant to, in 2025, it would have been a 10-year plan, because it would have gone from 2025 to 2035. However, the Government were unable to get their ducks in a row and the…
8 Jul 2026 Rearmament and Warfighting Readiness
I beg to move, That this House recognises the danger that Russia’s renewed illegal invasion of Ukraine poses to European and British security; further recognises the threat to the international order and the UK posed by China; also reco…
8 Jul 2026 European Entry and Exit System
I thank the Minister for all his efforts in trying to sort out a Tory mess. As a fellow Kent MP, I like and greatly respect the right hon. Member for Herne Bay and Sandwich (Sir Roger Gale), but is it not a bit cheeky to ask the Government…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Armed Forces Commissioner Bill 4 Dec 2024 – 12 Dec 2024
Expenses
Source: IPSA (OGL v3.0)
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mike Martin, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mike Martin?
Mike Martin is a Member of Parliament representing Tunbridge Wells in the House of Commons. See Mike Martin's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mike Martin represent?
Mike Martin sits as Liberal Democrat. See Mike Martin's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mike Martin represent?
Mike Martin is the Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells. See Mike Martin's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mike Martin been an MP?
Mike Martin has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Mike Martin's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mike Martin?
Mike Martin has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mike Martin's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.