Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds, MP for Torfaen
Nick Thomas-Symonds has been an MP since 2015.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office (Cabinet Office) | 2024 to 2026 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade (Department for Business and Trade) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Home Secretary (Home Office) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Security) (Home Office) | 2017 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office) | 2016 to 2020 | |
| Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2015 to 2016 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Welsh Grand Committee | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Justice Committee | 2015 |
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.
Nick Thomas-Symonds has 8 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 11 August 2026 - £60.03 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 26 June 2026 - £101.82 | 27 Jun 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 26 June 2026 - £496.08 | 27 Jun 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 25 November 2025 - £529.27 | 28 Nov 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Honorary Fellowship of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. This is an unpaid role. | 2 Jun 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Neighbourhood Board for Cwmbran in my capacity as the local MP. This is an unpaid role. | 21 May 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Barrister, not currently practising. | 3 Jun 2015 |
| Employment and earnings | Royalties for books | – |
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.
Nick Thomas-Symonds has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.
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.
62 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
Nick Thomas-Symonds represents Torfaen. 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
Nick Thomas-Symonds won with 43% of the votes, and Ian Williams (Reform UK) came second with 22%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Thomas-Symonds | Labour | 15,176 | 42.5% |
| Ian Williams | Reform UK | 7,854 | 22.0% |
| Nathan Edmunds | Conservative | 5,737 | 16.1% |
| Matthew Jones | Plaid Cymru | 2,571 | 7.2% |
| Philip Davies | Green Party | 1,705 | 4.8% |
| Brendan Roberts | Liberal Democrat | 1,644 | 4.6% |
| Lee Dunning | Independent | 881 | 2.5% |
| Nikki Brooke | Heritage Party | 137 | 0.4% |
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 Nick Thomas-Symonds took part in 85 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Nick Thomas-Symonds voted the same way as their party in 83 of the 83 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 |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | 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 |
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