Rt Hon Damian Hinds, MP for East Hampshire
Damian Hinds has been an MP since 2010. Currently: Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Education) (Department for Education) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Home Office) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Secretary of State for Education (Department for Education) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2016 to 2018 | |
| Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) (HM Treasury) | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2014 to 2015 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education (Department for Education) | 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2025 | |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 2025 | |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2024 to 2026 | |
| School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill | 2024 | |
| Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill | 2023 | |
| National Security Bill | 2022 | |
| Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation | 2020 to 2021 |
Show the other 2
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Education Committee | 2010 to 2012 |
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.
Damian Hinds has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in Hampshire | 7 Mar 2019 |
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.
Damian Hinds asked 171 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.
31 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
Damian Hinds represents East Hampshire. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Damian Hinds won with 37% of the votes, and Dominic Martin (Liberal Democrat) came second with 34%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Damian Hinds | Conservative | 18,509 | 37.0% |
| Dominic Martin | Liberal Democrat | 17,234 | 34.5% |
| Matthew Kellerman | Reform UK | 6,476 | 13.0% |
| Lucy Sims | Labour | 4,867 | 9.7% |
| Richard Knight | Green Party | 2,404 | 4.8% |
| Jim Makin | Hampshire Independents | 364 | 0.7% |
| Sara Smith | Social Democratic Party | 152 | 0.3% |
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 Damian Hinds took part in 212 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Damian Hinds voted the same way as their party in 211 of the 211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | 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% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
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