Member of Parliament
Charlie Maynard
Liberal Democrat MP for Witney
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
At a glanceCharlie Maynard is a Liberal Democrat MP for Witney, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They currently serve as Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Chief Secretary to the Treasury). They have cast 376 votes in Commons divisions (65% attendance), tabled 146 written questions and registered 20 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Charlie Maynard did not vote in 184. 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 undertakes the role of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Chief Secretary to the Treasury).
Current roles
- Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Chief Secretary to the Treasury) Opposition post · Opposition Department since 1 Oct 2025
- Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill Committee since 9 Jun 2025
- Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls Committee since 5 Mar 2025
- Business and Trade Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Witney 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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Ian Sollom
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 368 of 368 shared votes
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Caroline Voaden
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 343 of 343 shared votes
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Josh Babarinde
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 340 of 340 shared votes
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Sarah Green
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 337 of 337 shared votes
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Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat
100.0% · 333 of 333 shared votes
Votes least like
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Dame Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
10.9% · 24 of 221 shared votes
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Mary Creagh
Labour
12.6% · 32 of 253 shared votes
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Neil Coyle
Labour
12.9% · 38 of 294 shared votes
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Anneliese Midgley
Labour
13.7% · 40 of 293 shared votes
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Feryal Clark
Labour
14.0% · 29 of 207 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 MP6
- Christopher Brotherton - £10,000.00 (registered 4 Apr 2026)
- Bradley Wickens - £10,000.00 (registered 6 Mar 2026)
- Al Breach - £12,500.00 (registered 6 Mar 2026)
- Alasdair Breach - £12,500.00 (registered 29 Dec 2025)
- Alasdair Breach - £12,500.00 (registered 29 Dec 2025)
- Alasdair Breach - £12,500.00 (registered 29 Dec 2025)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources13
- Matthew Rice - £2,925.00 (registered 23 Dec 2025)
- Richard McBrien - £366.00 (registered 23 Dec 2025)
- Marriott Harrison LLP - £5,135.40 (registered 12 Nov 2025)
- Marriott Harrison - £7,272.00 (registered 16 Oct 2025)
- William Day - £4,200.00 (registered 16 Oct 2025)
- William Day - £4,200.00 (registered 24 Sep 2025)
- Marriott Harrison LLP - £20,077.20 (registered 24 Sep 2025)
- Marriott Harrison LLP - £23,410.80 (registered 17 Sep 2025)
- William Day - £6,300.00 (registered 17 Sep 2025)
- Marriott Harrison LLP - £4,929.60 (registered 18 Aug 2025)
- Riz Mokal - £1,014.00 (registered 11 Aug 2025)
- William Day - £840.00 (registered 11 Aug 2025)
- William Day - £4,200.00 (registered 16 Jul 2025)
Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK1
- Ailsa Roell - £14,000.00 (registered 12 Sep 2025)
Written questions
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide adequate funding to help ensure the the timely detection and treatment of ADHD and autism.
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that the time taken for hydrogen policy and funding announcements does not reduce private sector investment into the domestic hydrogen sector.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing the level of UK content in projects shortlisted under the second Hydrogen Allocation Round on the economy and job creation.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with businesses shortlisted under the second Hydrogen Allocation Round on progression to the Invite to Offer stage of negotiations before the end of 2026.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she will confirm that £836 million in cash terms was forecast to be spent on Equitable Life With-Profits Annuitants at the outset of the Equitable Life Payment Scheme; and that a discount rate of 4.4% was ap
Awaiting an answer from the Treasury.
Sustainable Farming Incentive
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of Sustainable Farming Incentive payments and Capital Grant payments have been paid late in the current financial year.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Small Businesses: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Making Tax Digital on small businesses.
Awaiting an answer from the Treasury.
Renewable Energy: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent assessment he has made of the value for money provided by the Contracts for Difference scheme.
Answer · 7 Jul 2026
The Contracts for Difference scheme delivers value for money through competitive auctions that drive down costs and protect consumers from volatile fossil fuel prices. AR7 secured renewable capacity at strike prices 40% below the cost of building and oper...
Speeches in the chamber
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
How is that possible?
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
On that point, will the Minister give way?
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
I agree 100%, and that is what is so depressing; by continuing to demonstrate that the regulators have no teeth, we create a bigger and bigger problem for ourselves. The alternative to a SAR—a deal with the creditors, which, extraordina…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to the former Secretary of State for setting out in a letter to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in June last year that “we expect that any Government funding require…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
I completely agree with my hon. Friend. That is what is going on up and down the catchment writ small, with treatment works deferred despite being crucially needed. In Aston, we have sewage running down the street year after year, and it i…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
I thank my hon. Friend. Rather than having customers pay hundreds of millions of pounds of debt at ludicrous interest rates of nearly 10%, Thames Water should be taken into a special administration regime, which is commonly known as ban…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
Absolutely. The consumers are getting the raw deal, and there is no end in sight. To qualify as an ultimate controller—it is a defined term—a party need only have material influence over Thames Water. The creditor consortium right now i…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
I completely agree, and Thames Water’s full-year accounts are out at 7 am tomorrow morning. We will see just what they tell us. It is going to be ugly, not least because the company’s equity is worthless. The largest equity shareholders wr…
14 Jul 2026 Future of Thames Water
I will discuss the future of Thames Water, starting with Thames Water’s record of pollution and environmental failure, and how it impacts everyone in my Witney constituency. Thames Water serves the constituency and embodies the systemic fa…
9 Jul 2026 Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban
I thank the hon. Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) for bringing such an important debate to the House. I appreciate all the speeches that have been given with such force. The issue is enormously important to many of my constit…
9 Jul 2026 Timms Review: Interim Report
I thank the Minister and everyone involved in the review for their hard work; this is a difficult subject, so it is much appreciated. Today’s report has confirmed what perhaps all of us knew for many years, which is that PIP is supposed…
9 Jul 2026 NATO Summit
On behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Bicester and Woodstock (Calum Miller), I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. As we have come to expect of all major international summits, NATO’s meeting in Ankara was…
9 Jul 2026 Iran Conflict: Ceasefire
Iran is continuing to hold the global economy to ransom through its reckless strikes in the strait of Hormuz—we all agree on that. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s continuing tit-for-tat retaliations risk dragging the whole region back into a ful…
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
Regarding contracts for difference, will the Government now consider moving from a 100% revenue guarantee model to a partial coverage model, along the lines of what Australia now has?
24 Jun 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles)
The electricity generator levy is a windfall tax on UK electricity generation from nuclear, renewable and biomass sources, and it raised £0.7 billion in the last financial year. The EGL is a revenue-based tax that currently applies at a ra…
17 Jun 2026 Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support
Absolutely. I will finish by saying that we need to look in the round at the massive cost pressures and changing consumer habits, from lower footfall to falling discretionary spending power, which combine to put pressure on pubs. A one-…
17 Jun 2026 Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support
As my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (James MacCleary) points out from a sedentary position, I am not suggesting that we rejoin the European Union. Employer national insurance contributions are the single biggest nightmare. It is a ta…
17 Jun 2026 Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support
I thank my hon. Friend for that point. Business rates feel so unjust—so arbitrary and out of control, and appeals are virtually impossible. We all beg the Minister to put doing something about that at the top of his list, because they are …
17 Jun 2026 Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support
Well, there you are. It is a wonderful pub, and we need to keep it open. This is all doubly tough for rural pubs. City pubs have a much larger catchment of potential customers who are within walking distance and not car-dependent, which…
17 Jun 2026 Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Meriden and Solihull East (Saqib Bhatti) for securing this important debate and I thank all my colleagues who gave such excellent speeches, which …
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) 14 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2026
- Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) 14 Oct 2024 – 26 Jan 2026
- Committee of Selection 21 Jan 2025 – 28 Apr 2025
- Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] 18 Dec 2024 – 16 Jan 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
01993 463701
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Office of Charlie Maynard MP, Elmfield House, New Yatt Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1PB
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Charlie Maynard, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Charlie Maynard?
Charlie Maynard is a Member of Parliament representing Witney in the House of Commons. See Charlie Maynard's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Charlie Maynard represent?
Charlie Maynard sits as Liberal Democrat. See Charlie Maynard's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Charlie Maynard represent?
Charlie Maynard is the Member of Parliament for Witney. See Charlie Maynard's official Parliament profile.
How long has Charlie Maynard been an MP?
Charlie Maynard has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Charlie Maynard's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Charlie Maynard?
Charlie Maynard has 20 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Charlie Maynard's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.