At a glanceSir Roger Gale is a Conservative MP for Herne Bay and Sandwich, and has represented the seat for 43 years, 1 month. They have cast 342 votes in Commons divisions (59% attendance), tabled 122 written questions and registered 4 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Sir Roger Gale did not vote in 233. 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
- Panel of Chairs Committee since 30 Jul 2024
- Herne Bay and Sandwich Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Conservative Party since 9 Jun 1983
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Bradley Thomas
Conservative
100.0% · 327 of 327 shared votes
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Damian Hinds
Conservative
100.0% · 326 of 326 shared votes
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Edward Argar
Conservative
100.0% · 321 of 321 shared votes
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Gareth Bacon
Conservative
100.0% · 320 of 320 shared votes
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Rebecca Harris
Conservative
100.0% · 319 of 319 shared votes
Votes least like
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Lizzi Collinge
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 254 shared votes
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Debbie Abrahams
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 252 shared votes
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Lucy Powell
Labour (Co-op)
0.0% · 0 of 237 shared votes
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Anna McMorrin
Labour
0.0% · 0 of 230 shared votes
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Gareth Thomas
Labour (Co-op)
0.0% · 0 of 208 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.
Visits outside the UK1
- International visit to Cyprus between 10 October 2025 and 13 October 2025 (registered 8 Nov 2025)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Residential in no location provided
Miscellaneous1
- Honorary Citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus (registered 18 Jun 2025)
Family members employed1
- Suzy Gale employed
Written questions
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil service pensioners were awaiting pensions quotations as of 17 June.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Cabinet Office awarded Capita the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme in November 2023 under the previous government. The current delays facing scheme members are entirely unacceptable, and this Government has taken firm action to ...
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to announce the final earned settlement model following the consultation period which expired on 12 February.
Answer · 22 Jun 2026
The consultation for the earned settlement model, as proposed in ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement’, was open to the public between 20 November 2025 and 12 February 2026.We received over 200,000 responses from the public and organisations are now reviewing ...
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many ill-health civil service retirement cases remain unresolved as of 17 June.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Cabinet Office awarded Capita the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme in November 2023 under the previous government. The current delays facing scheme members are entirely unacceptable, and this Government has taken firm action to ...
Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many death in service pensions remain outstanding and unpaid as of 17 June 2026.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Cabinet Office awarded Capita the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme in November 2023 under the previous government. The current delays facing scheme members are entirely unacceptable, and this Government has taken firm action to ...
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the average figure for energy production supplies to the grid was for (a) gas, (b) solar farms, (c) wind farms, (d) hydro-electric schemes, (e) nuclear, (f) biomass and (g) interconnecto
Answer · 20 May 2025
Figures for the historic electricity generation mix supplied to the grid in Great Britain are available on NESO’s data portal. The Department also publishes quarterly data on the total electricity supply in the UK by fuel in Energy Trends Table 5.1. This ...
Motor Vehicles: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to bring forward the statutory instrument necessary to permit the use of hydrogen powered construction vehicles on public roads through amendment to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regul
Answer · 24 Feb 2025
Following a consultation that closed in April 2024, the Department for Transport is developing an amendment to The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 to allow hydrogen-powered off-road machinery to be used on the road. Legislation is ex...
Cyprus: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, If he will discuss with his Turkish counterpart the resolution of persons missing following the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the role that Turkey could play in providing ac
Answer · 1 Nov 2022
The UK maintains close contact with the Committee on Missing Persons which is mandated to search for, recover, identify and return to their families the remains of Cypriots from both communities. In July, the UK ensured language was included in the renewa...
Tourism: Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the economic impact of the planned closures of the M2 motorway between junctions 5 and 6 at weekends in (a) spring and (b) summer 2022 on tourist industries in t
Answer · 26 May 2022
The closures are required to carry out essential replacement of life-expired bridge components. The Department does not, as standard practice, carry out economic impact assessments for road closures. However, National Highways has agreed the planned closu...
Early day motions
| 15 Jan 2015 | SOCIAL SECURITY | 35 sig. |
| 12 Jan 2005 | UK RADIO AID | 101 sig. |
| 27 Jan 1997 | MR GEORGE GEROLEMOU AND HIS HOME IN CYPRUS | 25 sig. |
| 19 Jul 1994 | FREEDOM FOOD | 68 sig. |
| 18 May 1992 | WILD-CAUGHT BIRD TRADE | 95 sig. |
| 7 May 1992 | CRUELTY OF WHALING | 212 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
16 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
The Secretary of State appears to think it is scaremongering to suggest that, with effect from this weekend, passenger and freight traffic using the channel tunnel and the port of Dover will be disrupted as a result of the European entry a…
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Order.
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Order. I assume that the Minister is not suggesting that the debate has been in any way out of order.
15 Jul 2026 Peak Cluster Pipeline and Project
Before I call Esther McVey to move the motion, and then the Minister to respond, I remind Members that they may make a speech only with the prior permission of the Member in charge of the debate. No such notice has been given. There will n…
15 Jul 2026 Regional Accents and Social Mobility
I am sure that the whole House will have appreciated the contribution by Strangford’s own answer to Professor Henry Higgins. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That this House has considered regional accents and social mobilit…
8 Jul 2026 Maritime and Coastguard Agency
This House has the capacity to criticise, but it also has the capacity to be fair. The Minister probably finds himself between a rock and a cliff face in a situation that he did not make himself. That does not absolve the MCA from the crit…
8 Jul 2026 European Entry and Exit System
As the Minister has indicated, over the spring bank holiday there was chaos at Dover, at St Pancras and at the channel tunnel because of the failure of the EES. The French authorities were quite simply not prepared or able to implement the…
8 Jul 2026 European Entry and Exit System
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures the Government have put in place to ensure that in the coming holiday season, travellers and business freight are not delayed at our ports, our international railway stat…
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
I am sorry to labour this point, but given the consensus that I think there is in the House this afternoon, and in the light of what the hon. Member for Liverpool Wavertree (Paula Barker) said, let me say this. By my reckoning, we have fiv…
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
Will the Minister give way?
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
There are people in the Gallery and in the public out there who want to know that dangerous criminals will not be released at the start of September. That is what they want to hear; we do not want to hear the history. We want an answer fro…
7 Jul 2026 Early Release of Prisoners
In view of what my hon. Friend has just said, the constituents of Members across the House just want a clear undertaking that dangerous criminals—rapists and others—will not be set free. The Government have obviously dug themselves into a …
7 Jul 2026 Agrivoltaics
The hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner) referred to the use of solar panels on all sorts of buildings to provide shade, and we could include car parks in that. But what we should not be including is grade 1 agricultural land. Wheth…
24 Jun 2026 Violence against Women and Girls
Does the Minister agree that it is iniquitous that at least one of the doctors responsible for the intrusive examination of young women prior to their rape and sexual abuse by Mohammed Fayed is still practising in London? If she does, woul…
18 Jun 2026 Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
The hon. Gentleman referred to “reinventing the wheel”. There is no possible way that anybody can be really compensated for the loss of a child, a husband or a wife. However, those of us who still bear the scars of the thalidomide scandal …
18 Jun 2026 Business of the House
Mr Speaker, you will recall that on 16 April I raised with the Leader of the House the failure of Capita to administer properly the civil service pension scheme. Ever courteous, he passed that information and my concerns to the Cabinet Off…
18 Jun 2026 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
The Roman forts of Reculver and Richborough, linked by the Wantsum channel and the River Stour in east Kent, are ambitious to secure UNESCO world heritage site status. Those ambitions will be killed stone dead if the Department for Energy …
10 Jun 2026 Water Supply in Kent
I apologise for the untimely interruption earlier, Mr Twigg— if I had been in the Chair, I would have been shouting at me. I wanted to open my mobile phone because at half-past 4 this afternoon a lady from Herne Bay texted me to say: “S…
9 Jun 2026 Summit on Illicit Finance
Order. I am looking around the room and at the time. I will not set a fixed time limit, but if hon. Members keep their speeches to under five minutes, everybody on the list who wishes to speak will get in.
9 Jun 2026 Summit on Illicit Finance
Order. There is a Division on the Floor of the House. The sitting is suspended until 15 minutes after the start of what is likely to be the third Division in that group. Please do come back, because we think that there will be a pause betw…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Other posts
- Deputy Speaker 19 Jun 2025 – 22 Jul 2025
- Deputy Speaker 19 Dec 2022 – 30 May 2024
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Full Member) 23 Jan 2012 – 30 Mar 2015
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member) 10 Nov 2010 – 23 Jan 2012
- Vice-Chair, Conservative Party 1 Aug 2001 – 31 Jul 2003
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member) 1 Oct 1987 – 16 Nov 1989
Committee memberships
- Ecclesiastical Committee 4 Mar 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Panel of Chairs 15 Jan 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Ecclesiastical Committee 31 Oct 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Panel of Chairs 22 Jun 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Ecclesiastical Committee 28 Oct 2015 – 3 May 2017
- Panel of Chairs 26 Jun 1997 – 3 May 2017
- Procedure Committee 11 Jun 2007 – 30 Mar 2015
- Home Affairs Committee 17 Jun 1987 – 16 Mar 1992
Previous seats
- North Thanet · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
- North Thanet · Elected 3 times 1 May 1997 – 6 May 2010
- North Thanet · Elected 3 times 9 Jun 1983 – 1 May 1997
Elections contested
- Birmingham, Northfield 28 Oct 1982
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 4087
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
The Old Forge, 215a Canterbury Road, Birchington, CT7 9AH
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Sir Roger Gale, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Sir Roger Gale?
Sir Roger Gale is a Member of Parliament representing Herne Bay and Sandwich in the House of Commons. See Sir Roger Gale's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Sir Roger Gale represent?
Sir Roger Gale sits as Conservative. See Sir Roger Gale's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Sir Roger Gale represent?
Sir Roger Gale is the Member of Parliament for Herne Bay and Sandwich. See Sir Roger Gale's official Parliament profile.
How long has Sir Roger Gale been an MP?
Sir Roger Gale has served in the House of Commons for 43 years, 1 month. See Sir Roger Gale's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Sir Roger Gale?
Sir Roger Gale has 4 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Sir Roger Gale's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.