Clive Efford, MP for Eltham and Chislehurst
Clive Efford has been an MP since 1997. Currently: Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill; Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill; Public Accounts Commission.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) | 2011 to 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Public Accounts Commission | 2025 to now | Now |
| Panel of Chairs | 2024 to now | Now |
| Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill | 2024 | |
| Media Bill | 2023 | |
| Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Bill | 2022 | |
| Speaker's Conference (2022) | 2022 to 2024 |
Show the other 11
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Finance (No.2) Bill | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Panel of Chairs | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2020 to 2024 | |
| DCMS Sub-Committee on Disinformation | 2019 | |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Public Accounts Commission | 2017 to now | Now |
| Transport Committee | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2010 to 2011 | |
| Transport Committee | 2002 to 2009 | |
| Procedure Committee | 1997 to 2001 |
Political Interests
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Clive Efford has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Millwall Football and Athletic Company (1885) Limited - £230.00 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Millwall Football and Athletic Company (1885) Limited - £299.00 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Millwall Community Trust. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Jan 2025 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Clive Efford asked 9 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
26 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Clive Efford represents Eltham and Chislehurst. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Clive Efford won with 44% of the votes, and Charlie Davis (Conservative) came second with 26%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clive Efford | Labour | 20,069 | 44.0% |
| Charlie Davis | Conservative | 11,640 | 25.5% |
| Mark George Simpson | Reform UK | 7,428 | 16.3% |
| Sam Gabriel | Green Party | 3,079 | 6.8% |
| Ulysse Abbate | Liberal Democrat | 2,423 | 5.3% |
| Sean Ellis Stewart | Workers Party of Britain | 356 | 0.8% |
| Arnold Tarling | Independent | 307 | 0.7% |
| Christian Hacking | Independent | 173 | 0.4% |
| John Courtneidge | Independent | 91 | 0.2% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Clive Efford took part in 210 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Clive Efford voted the same way as their party in 210 of the 210 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this