Member of Parliament
Mike Tapp
Labour MP for Dover and Deal
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
At a glanceMike Tapp is a Labour MP for Dover and Deal, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They currently serve as Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office). They have cast 441 votes in Commons divisions (77% attendance), tabled 10 written questions and registered 2 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mike Tapp did not vote in 134. 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 holds the Government post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office).
Current roles
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) Government post · Home Office since 6 Sep 2025
- Dover and Deal Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Gareth Snell
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 391 of 391 shared votes
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Jessica Morden
Labour
100.0% · 383 of 383 shared votes
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Josh MacAlister
Labour
100.0% · 382 of 382 shared votes
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Alan Gemmell
Labour
100.0% · 379 of 379 shared votes
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Charlotte Nichols
Labour
100.0% · 376 of 376 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 144 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 262 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
1.0% · 2 of 194 shared votes
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Richard Fuller
Conservative
1.3% · 4 of 307 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
1.3% · 4 of 298 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 Monki Dog Care (registered 26 Jul 2024)
Miscellaneous1
- Director of Monki Dog Care Ltd. (registered 26 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Cybersecurity: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have been subject to ransomware attacks in the last 12 months; and how much has been spent on recovering public data from those attacks.
Answer · 1 Sep 2025
MHCLG have supported local authorities to respond to two ransomware incidents in the last 12 months. Historically, MHCLG has not collected data on local authority ransomware related expenditure but maintains a clear opposition to ransom payments. This gov...
Undocumented Migrants: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which database systems are the people who have arrived via small boat crossing checked against for (a) criminal and (b) counter-terrorism information; and how long does it take on average for full che
Answer · 5 Jun 2025
The Home Office checks all small boat arrivals against a range of secure systems. These include internal databases, law enforcement records, biometric verification platforms and immigration history systems. Biometrics and biographic details taken are chec...
Ferries: Charging Points
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will take steps to ensure the Port of Dover has sufficient energy supply to the Port to implement electric ferry charging points.
Answer · 11 Apr 2025
The Government published the Maritime Decarbonisation Strategy on 25 March, which outlines domestic goals and commitments to decarbonise maritime transport, and a call for evidence on Net Zero Ports was launched to assess future energy demand at ports lik...
Heat Pumps: Dover and Deal
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using disused mine shafts for clean energy creation using heat pump technology in Dover and Deal constituency.
Answer · 11 Apr 2025
To achieve net zero at lowest cost, we must look at how to accelerate all low carbon technologies including geothermal. The mine water from coal mines shows good potential as a renewable source for heat networks. The government is therefore supporting min...
Police: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging victims of theft whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding or releasing those vehicles.
Answer · 11 Apr 2025
The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA) empowers the police to remove vehicles that are dangerously, illegally, or obstructively parked, or broken down or abandoned, which includes vehicles abandoned after theft.Removals and storage entail a cost, whi...
West Bank: Terrorism
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) the level of terrorist activity in the West Bank and (b) Iran's support for terrorism in the
Answer · 22 Apr 2025
The UK remains concerned by the threat of terrorism in the West Bank and strongly condemns all acts of terrorism. Stability in the West Bank is crucial to ensure any ceasefire in Gaza can last. All sides should work to ensure a lowering of tension in the ...
Police: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging people whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding those vehicles for evidential purposes.
Answer · 20 Mar 2025
Whilst the police are empowered to charge vehicle owners prescribed sums for the recovery, storage, and disposal of their vehicles, victims of theft are not charged storage costs whilst vehicles are undergoing forensics examinations or for the cost for fo...
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the maximum daily spend on hotel accommodation for asylum-seekers between July (a) 2021 and (b) 2024; and in which (i) month and (ii) year that maximum spend was reached.
Answer · 9 Dec 2024
The Home Office does not publish data on daily numbers or cost of hotels in use as costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. However, the total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annua...
Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
I thank my hon. Friend for her important question. I work closely with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and many sectors in agriculture to ensure that they can operate if they need access to foreign workers. Of course…
13 Jul 2026 British National Overseas Visa
I thank the hon. Lady for her important point. It is essential that we keep those who are here safe. The Minister for Security is keeping this matter under review, and will write to her in due course.
13 Jul 2026 British National Overseas Visa
We have consulted widely on earned settlement. We are considering the responses, and will bring forward reforms at the earliest opportunity. In the meantime, those on the BNO route can continue to apply, and the service standard for those …
13 Jul 2026 British National Overseas Visa
We assess that the route has been a success. Since it launched, more than 170,000 Hongkongers have moved to the UK, and thousands have now been granted settlement. The Government remain steadfast in our support for the Hong Kong community …
13 Jul 2026 Seasonal Worker Visas
I thank my hon. Friend for his important question. I will ensure that we work closely with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs—we already do—in engaging with the sector to ensure that the announcement on numbers is timel…
13 Jul 2026 Seasonal Worker Visas
This Government recognise the importance of a prompt announcement on visa numbers to enable the agriculture industry to plan and prepare. The Government are committed to supporting the UK horticulture sector, but it is important that the s…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
The Home Secretary made it clear at Home Office oral questions that the announcement on the five to 10 years absolutely stands. We opened a large consultation and had 200,000 responses that are still being worked through. Announcements on …
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I thank the hon. Member for his intervention, which is now on the record. I would be keen to discuss why he thinks the numbers went up, and why we saw about 180,000 people cross after 2018. [Interruption.] Perhaps that is something to disc…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
My hon. Friend makes an important point. We saw the start of the boat crossings crisis only after we left the EU; of course, the Dublin agreement provided some sort of deterrent. However, reopening the Brexit wound is not something I want …
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I am absolutely fed up of being lectured by the Opposition, who gave us this problem. It is like being lectured by the arsonist on putting out the fire. I will go absolutely no further with that. I turn to the speech of the hon. Member …
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I respect the intervention. I did say that I apologised for having to raise this again, but it is a fact that we inherited a completely broken system. It does take time to fix a broken system, and we are working hard to do so.
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
I thank the right hon. Member for her passionate intervention. We took on her Government’s open borders. Over the last year, we have seen a reduction of around 41% in small boat crossings. It is not something that we celebrate, because we …
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
The hon. Member’s party had 14 years to make changes, but they absolutely failed. We inherited their open borders and their broken system, but we are working hard behind the scenes, as we speak, to make the ECHR more fit for purpose. Le…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
It is an absolute fact that many of our returns agreements are underpinned by our membership of the ECHR. I will now make some progress. That is why we are embarking on the most significant set of asylum reforms in a generation. Under o…
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
We must remember that the ECHR, which I will say more about later in my speech, underpins many of the exact returns agreements that we rely upon to deport and remove people.
13 Jul 2026 Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation
It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Twigg. I thank the hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for clearly and comprehensively articulating the key facets of the petition that has resulted in us all being …
23 Jun 2026 Border Security: UK-Ireland Co-operation
I thank the hon. Member for her contribution. I absolutely disagree with the framing that we are not taking this issue seriously. We are here today having a debate, and on top of that we are working day in, day out to fix the immigration s…
23 Jun 2026 Border Security: UK-Ireland Co-operation
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his well-made points. I disagree that those important diplomatic relations and agreements are hollow, but I will take away the point about the Irish border and feed it back to officials. That is disturb…
23 Jun 2026 Border Security: UK-Ireland Co-operation
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) on securing this debate on a topic of great significance. We have had a number of contributions, and I am grate…
16 Jun 2026 Draft Immigration (Leave to Enter and Remain) (Amendment) Order 2026
I thank the hon. Member for her questions. On the first one, tech at the border is under continuous review, I meet with officials on a regular basis to look at friction rates, data and stats. We can adjust accordingly if needed in future. …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Justice Committee 21 Oct 2024 – 27 Oct 2025
- Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 12 Feb 2025 – 18 Mar 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mike Tapp, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mike Tapp?
Mike Tapp is a Member of Parliament representing Dover and Deal in the House of Commons. See Mike Tapp's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mike Tapp represent?
Mike Tapp sits as Labour. See Mike Tapp's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mike Tapp represent?
Mike Tapp is the Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal. See Mike Tapp's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mike Tapp been an MP?
Mike Tapp has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Mike Tapp's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mike Tapp?
Mike Tapp has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mike Tapp's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.