Rt Hon Victoria Atkins, MP for Louth and Horncastle
Victoria Atkins has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) (HM Treasury) | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Minister for Afghan resettlement (Ministry of Justice) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Minister for Women (Government Equalities Office) | 2018 to 2020 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2017 to 2021 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Women and Equalities Committee | 2022 | |
| Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | 2021 | |
| Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee) | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2015 to 2016 |
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.
Victoria Atkins has 8 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Natural History Museum - £382.00 | 2 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Natural History Museum - £296.00 | 2 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Ascot Racecourse - £590.00 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | National Farmers' Union - £960.00 | 19 Mar 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Jockey Club Racecourses Limited - £560.00 | 19 Mar 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | Agricultural Engineers Association - £540.00 | 3 Nov 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Connected Coast Board, a joint board for the Mablethorpe and Skegness Towns Fund. This is an unpaid role. | 28 Jan 2020 |
| Miscellaneous | Barrister, currently not practising. | 6 Jun 2015 |
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.
Victoria Atkins asked 17 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.
27 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
Victoria Atkins represents Louth and Horncastle. 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
Victoria Atkins won with 38% of the votes, and Sean Matthews (Reform UK) came second with 26%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Atkins | Conservative | 17,441 | 37.5% |
| Sean Matthews | Reform UK | 11,935 | 25.7% |
| Jonathan Slater | Labour | 10,475 | 22.5% |
| Robert Watson | Green Party | 2,504 | 5.4% |
| Ross Pepper | Liberal Democrat | 2,364 | 5.1% |
| Paul Hugill | Independent | 1,359 | 2.9% |
| Iconic Arty-Pole | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 309 | 0.7% |
| Marcus Moorehouse | Social Democratic Party | 92 | 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 Victoria Atkins took part in 161 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Victoria Atkins voted the same way as their party in 159 of the 159 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 | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | 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 |
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
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this