Rt Hon Kit Malthouse, MP for North West Hampshire
Kit Malthouse has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Science and Technology Committee (Commons).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Education (Department for Education) | 2022 | |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Cabinet Office) | 2022 | |
| Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office) (Ministry of Justice) | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office) (Ministry of Justice) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Minister of State (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2019 to 2020 | |
| Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2018 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill | 2025 | |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill | 2024 | |
| Public Order Bill | 2022 | |
| Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill | 2021 | |
| Treasury Sub-Committee | 2017 to 2018 | |
| Treasury Committee | 2017 to 2018 | |
| Treasury Committee | 2016 to 2017 |
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.
Kit Malthouse has 6 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Qatar between 05 December 2025 and 08 December 2025 | 21 Jan 2026 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in Lockhouse Systems Ltd | 14 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid director of Lockhouse Systems Ltd, a software and technology development company | 13 Oct 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ongoing paid employment | Agreement starting 01 July 2025 - £25,000.00 | 12 Aug 2025 |
| Employment and earnings | Chairman and Director - County Asset Finance Limited | 12 Aug 2025 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in County Finance Group Ltd | 2 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.
Kit Malthouse asked 15 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.
29 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
Kit Malthouse represents North West 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
Kit Malthouse won with 35% of the votes, and Andy Fitchet (Labour) came second with 28%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kit Malthouse | Conservative | 17,770 | 35.0% |
| Andy Fitchet | Labour | 14,482 | 28.5% |
| Andy Meacham | Reform UK | 7,734 | 15.2% |
| Luigi Gregori | Liberal Democrat | 7,626 | 15.0% |
| Hina West | Green Party | 2,745 | 5.4% |
| Phil Heath | Hampshire Independents | 466 | 0.9% |
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 Kit Malthouse took part in 213 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Kit Malthouse 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 | 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