Member of Parliament
Rebecca Smith
Conservative MP for South West Devon
Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)
At a glanceRebecca Smith is a Conservative MP for South West Devon, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They currently serve as Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons). They have cast 357 votes in Commons divisions (62% attendance), tabled 255 written questions and registered 12 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Rebecca Smith did not vote in 172. 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 Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons).
Current roles
- Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL] Committee since 24 Jun 2025
- Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) Opposition post · Whips Office (Commons) since 18 Nov 2024
- Ecclesiastical Committee Committee since 4 Nov 2024
- Transport Committee Committee since 21 Oct 2024
- Conservative Party since 4 Jul 2024
- South West Devon Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Bradley Thomas
Conservative
100.0% · 353 of 353 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 340 of 340 shared votes
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Greg Smith
Conservative
100.0% · 335 of 335 shared votes
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Mr Gagan Mohindra
Conservative
100.0% · 331 of 331 shared votes
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Edward Argar
Conservative
100.0% · 328 of 328 shared votes
Votes least like
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Michael Payne
Labour
1.0% · 3 of 291 shared votes
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Emily Thornberry
Labour
1.1% · 2 of 185 shared votes
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour
1.3% · 4 of 299 shared votes
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Bambos Charalambous
Labour
1.5% · 4 of 273 shared votes
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Chris Bryant
Labour
1.6% · 3 of 188 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
- Member of Plymouth City Council - Plymouth City Council (registered 1 Aug 2024)
Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment1
- Agreement - £997.00 (registered 1 Aug 2024)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources7
- Silverstone Circuits Limited - £930.00 (registered 7 Jul 2026)
- Babcock International Group - £25.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
- Babcock International Group - £90.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
- Babcock International Group - £85.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
- Babcock International Group - £140.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
- Motorsport UK - £1,400.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
- Silverstone Circuits Ltd - £800.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to Poland between 12 April 2026 and 16 April 2026 (registered 15 May 2026)
- International visit to Israel between 24 August 2025 and 29 August 2025 (registered 10 Sep 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- Board member of the Policy Research Unit. This is an unpaid role. (registered 10 Jul 2025)
Written questions
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the maintenance backlog requirements are for the rolling stock fleet of each train operating company.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the proportion of rolling stock not required for the planned timetable for each train operating company in each month since July 2024.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Class 810 trains were expected to be in passenger service by (a) December 2022, (b) December 2023, (c) December 2024, (d) December 2025 and (e) the latest date for which figures are available.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Motability: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 126865 on Motability: Rural Areas, what estimate his Department has made of the average annual mileage driven by Motability Scheme customers living in
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
Whilst the Department works closely with Motability and is responsible for the main disability benefits that provide a passport to the Motability Scheme, Motability Foundation is an independent charitable organisation that is wholly responsible for the te...
Train Operating Companies: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what categories of management information are recorded locally by state-owned Train Operating Companies in relation to service cancellations.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
The Department does not hold centrally a list of the categories of management information recorded locally by train operating companies. Decisions on locally recorded management information are an operational matter for each operator.
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in receipt of Universal Credit have (a) no member of the household in employment, (b) no member of the household in receipt of a (i) health and (ii) disability related benefit and (c
Answer · 20 Jul 2026
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However, monthly Universal Credit statistics for the number of households in receipt of Universal Credit by the Number of Children Aged 0 to 4 are publ...
Maritime and Coastguard Agency: British Overseas Territories
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14998 on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and British Overseas Territories, what the total cost was of each monitoring visit undertaken since 4 July 2024, bro
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Network Rail: Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 6 July 2026 to Questions 14929 and 15007 on Network Rail: Biodiversity, whether her Department has made any assessment of the impact of ecological survey windows and protected species
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Local Government Reorganisation
The Secretary of State claims that decisions reflect local identities. Well, I can advise him that the majority of my constituents and those living in rural Devon would highly disagree. Instead, we have an urban Labour stitch-up that ignor…
16 Jul 2026 Maritime Sector
I thank the Minister for his answer. He and I have had several interactions over the marine autonomy sector in particular, and I welcome the regulating for growth Bill, as I have said before in this place. However, I am incredibly keen to …
16 Jul 2026 Maritime Sector
4. What steps she is taking to support the maritime sector.
14 Jul 2026 Business of the House
The right hon. Member has highlighted that, in his view, this is not a binary choice between a debate on the middle east and holding the new Prime Minister to account. I wonder whether I might therefore offer him a solution. Why do we not …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
I am glad that the Minister has brought up the subject of fully funded apprenticeships for those under 25. As soon as that was announced, an electrician in my constituency contacted me and said, “That is all well and good, but I still have…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
The Minister makes a very interesting point about city centres being hollowed out, but the main thrust of this debate is about young people doing summer jobs before they go back to school or university in the autumn. They are the very youn…
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
My hon. Friend reminds me that one of the other soft skills that we learn that way is resilience. I am wondering how he got those jobs, because I earned £10 a day in my first job. I was sweeping the floor in a florist and, if I was lucky, …
7 Jul 2026 Summer Jobs
Does my right hon. Friend recognise that the group of people who often get forgotten in these debates—certainly by Government Members—are business owners? They are trying to hang on to these young people, or even to their normal employees,…
6 Jul 2026 Employment and Training
This draft order will allow the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, known as the ECITB, to continue collecting a levy on employers in order to fund training and address skills shortages. The engineering construction industry …
30 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
I have asked before about the future of the amphibious fleet and the replacements for HMS Bulwark and Albion, and Ministers reassured me that the multi-role strike ships were forthcoming and that the Government would recapitalise the Royal…
30 Jun 2026 Women’s Prison Estate: Biological Males
We have just heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen South (Douglas Lumsden) that the Supreme Court has clarified the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010 and that Scotland has taken the relevant steps. The Minister responded …
30 Jun 2026 Women’s Prison Estate: Biological Males
15. How many biological male prisoners are held in the general women’s estate.
29 Jun 2026 Youth Guarantee
I am not surprised that Labour Ministers and Back Benchers are patting themselves on the back for their youth guarantee, but it is a sticking plaster solution to a problem of their own creation. Rather than U-turn on their triple whammy o…
25 Jun 2026 Business of the House
I thank the Leader of the House for his recent reply to my letter offering my support for the “regulating for growth” Bill, which was announced in the King’s Speech. However, while he was effusive in his gratitude for my interest in the Bi…
25 Jun 2026 UK-EU Relations
I was recently in Washington DC. On several occasions, our American counterparts raised concerns about the future of the EU-UK relationship and realignment. What discussions has the Paymaster General had with his US counterparts, as well a…
25 Jun 2026 UK-EU Relations
11. What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the future EU-UK relationship.
24 Jun 2026 Farming: Financial Sustainability
On that point specifically, I raised Dartmoor and invited the Minister to visit my constituency. He has about 30 seconds left to speak, but could he respond to that point?
24 Jun 2026 Farming: Financial Sustainability
It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. Let me start by inviting the new Minister—I welcome him to his place—to visit Dartmoor over the summer to meet farmers, commoners, the Dartmoor hill pony organisations and, imp…
24 Jun 2026 Antisemitism
The inaugural Jewish Culture Month has just concluded. More than 100 events took place across the country to celebrate Jewish culture, community and creativity. For example, the Plymouth Jewish community partnered with the Klezmer Village …
24 Jun 2026 Antisemitism
2. What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle antisemitism.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Railways Bill 7 Jan 2026 – 10 Feb 2026
- Pension Schemes Bill 15 Jul 2025 – 11 Sep 2025
- Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 12 Feb 2025 – 18 Mar 2025
- Renters’ Rights Bill 16 Oct 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
Elections contested
- Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport 12 Dec 2019
Expenses
Contact & offices
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Rebecca Smith, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Rebecca Smith?
Rebecca Smith is a Member of Parliament representing South West Devon in the House of Commons. See Rebecca Smith's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Rebecca Smith represent?
Rebecca Smith sits as Conservative. See Rebecca Smith's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Rebecca Smith represent?
Rebecca Smith is the Member of Parliament for South West Devon. See Rebecca Smith's official Parliament profile.
How long has Rebecca Smith been an MP?
Rebecca Smith has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Rebecca Smith's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Rebecca Smith?
Rebecca Smith has 12 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Rebecca Smith's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.