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Rt Hon Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire

Jesse Norman has been an MP since 2010. Currently: Shadow Leader of the House of Commons; Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority; Modernisation Committee; House of Commons Commission.

Roles and committees

Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.

In government

PostWhen
Minister of State (Department for Transport) (Department for Transport)2022 to 2023
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)2022
Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General (HM Treasury)2019
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) (HM Treasury)2019 to 2021
Minister of State (Department for Transport) (Department for Transport)2018 to 2019
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (Department for Transport)2017 to 2018
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)2016 to 2017

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (Office of the Leader of the House of Commons)2024 to nowNow

Committees

PostWhen
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority2024 to nowNow
Modernisation Committee2024 to nowNow
House of Commons Commission2024 to nowNow
Restoration and Renewal Client Board2024 to nowNow
Restoration and Renewal Programme Board2024 to nowNow
Members Estimate Committee2024 to nowNow
Defence Committee2024 to nowNow
Defence Committee2023 to 2024
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PostWhen
Defence Sub-Committee2023 to 2024
National Insurance Contributions Bill2021
Liaison Committee (Commons)2015 to 2016
House of Commons Governance Committee2014
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)2010 to 2015
Treasury Committee2010 to 2015

Political Interests

Public Services

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.

Jesse Norman has 17 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 11 August 2026 - £739.1512 Aug 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 23 June 2026 - £679.7129 Jun 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 30 April 2026 - £178.3514 May 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 23 April 2026 - £159.8727 Apr 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Spain between 26 March 2026 and 29 March 202620 Apr 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to France between 15 January 2026 and 17 January 20262 Feb 2026
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 30 September 2025 - £675.4922 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 03 October 2025 - £253.3120 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 09 October 2025 - £66.5520 Oct 2025
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 16 October 2025 - £98.4020 Oct 2025
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TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc paymentsPayment received on 18 September 2025 - £1,667.0024 Sep 2025
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to France between 05 September 2025 and 07 September 202522 Sep 2025
MiscellaneousChair of NMITE. This is an unpaid role.12 Mar 2025
MiscellaneousMember of the Town Board for Hereford. This is an unpaid role.5 Feb 2020
Employment and earningsWriting Books - Peters Fraser & Dunlop Ltd–
Employment and earningsAcademic Work - Liberty Fund Inc–
ShareholdingsShares in Genie International Toys–

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.

Jesse Norman asked 3 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Business and Trade3

Latest questions

12 Nov 2025 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 17 Nov 2025
11 Nov 2025 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 17 Nov 2025
11 Nov 2025 · to the Department for Business and Trade
Answered 17 Nov 2025

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.

PAID IN 2025-26
£37,827
Office costs · claims for running an office£10,523
Staffing · claims relating to staff£27,303

40 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data

Election result and area

Jesse Norman represents Hereford and South Herefordshire. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Jesse Norman

Conservative

MAJORITY
1,279

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
63%

of people who could vote did

Jesse Norman won with 33% of the votes, and Joe Emmett (Labour) came second with 30%.

Votes for each party

Conservative33% · 14,871
Labour30% · 13,592
Reform UK18% · 8,395
Liberal Democrat12% · 5,325
Green Party7% · 3,175
Independent0% · 214
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Jesse NormanConservative14,87132.6%
Joe EmmettLabour13,59229.8%
Nigel ElyReform UK8,39518.4%
Dan PowellLiberal Democrat5,32511.7%
Diana ToynbeeGreen Party3,1757.0%
Mark WeadenIndependent2140.5%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£705 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
2.7%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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How they vote

In the last 12 months Jesse Norman took part in 202 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Jesse Norman voted the same way as their party in 199 of the 200 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 1.

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

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteAgainstFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateAgainstFree vote
2 SepVoting and elections: the final voteAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeForSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeForSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Times they voted against their party (1)

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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MonthThis MPParty average
Oct 2596%100%
Nov 25100%100%
Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
Feb 26100%100%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
May 26100%100%
Jun 26100%100%
Jul 26100%100%
Sep 26100%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