Mims Davies, MP for East Grinstead and Uckfield
Mims Davies has been an MP since 2015. Currently: Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2024 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2022 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2019 to 2022 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | 2018 to 2019 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Wales Office) (Wales Office) | 2018 | |
| Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2018 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Women) (Department for Education) | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (Wales Office) | 2024 to now | Now |
| Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities (Department for Education) | 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee | 2024 | |
| Child Support (Enforcement) Bill | 2023 | |
| Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill | 2022 | |
| Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) | 2017 to 2018 | |
| Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion | 2016 to 2018 | |
| Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) | 2015 to 2017 | |
| Women and Equalities 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.
Mims Davies has 2 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | A regular volunteer radio presenter of a retro weekend show for the local community radio station, Mid Sussex Radio (previously Burgess Hill Radio). | 18 Nov 2021 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in Mid-Sussex | 5 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.
Mims Davies asked 306 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.
66 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
Mims Davies represents East Grinstead and Uckfield. 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
Mims Davies won with 38% of the votes, and Benedict Dempsey (Liberal Democrat) came second with 22%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mims Davies | Conservative | 19,319 | 38.3% |
| Benedict Dempsey | Liberal Democrat | 10,839 | 21.5% |
| Ben Cox | Labour | 10,440 | 20.7% |
| Christina Coleman | Green Party | 5,277 | 10.5% |
| Ian Gibson | Independent | 2,482 | 4.9% |
| William Highton | English Democrats | 2,036 | 4.0% |
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 Mims Davies took part in 214 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Mims Davies voted the same way as their party in 213 of the 213 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 |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | 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% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
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