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Rosie Duffield, MP for Canterbury

Rosie Duffield has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Women and Equalities Committee.

Roles and committees

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

In opposition

PostWhen
Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons))2020

Committees

PostWhen
Women and Equalities Committee2024 to nowNow
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill2024
Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill2024
Pet Abduction Bill2024
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill2022
Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill2022
Animal (Penalty Notices) Bill2021
Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill2021
Show the other 4
PostWhen
Women and Equalities Committee2020
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee2020 to 2024
Work and Pensions Committee2018 to 2019
Women and Equalities Committee2017 to 2018

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.

No interests are currently registered for Rosie Duffield.

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.

Rosie Duffield asked 28 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care12
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs4
Department for Education3
Treasury3
Department for Work and Pensions2

Latest questions

9 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 15 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answered 3 Sep 2026
26 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 8 Jul 2026
26 Jun 2026 · to the Home Office
Answered 6 Jul 2026
26 Jun 2026 · to the Home Office
Answered 6 Jul 2026

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
£16,624
Office costs · claims for running an office£14,623
Staffing · claims relating to staff£2,001

53 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

Rosie Duffield represents Canterbury. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Rosie Duffield

Labour

MAJORITY
8,653

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
66%

of people who could vote did

Rosie Duffield won with 41% of the votes, and Louise Harvey-Quirke (Conservative) came second with 23%.

Votes for each party

Labour41% · 19,531
Conservative23% · 10,878
Reform UK14% · 6,805
Green Party13% · 5,920
Liberal Democrat8% · 3,812
Social Democratic Party1% · 285
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rosie DuffieldLabour19,53141.4%
Louise Harvey-QuirkeConservative10,87823.0%
Bridget PorterReform UK6,80514.4%
Henry StantonGreen Party5,92012.5%
Russ TimpsonLiberal Democrat3,8128.1%
Luke Buchanan-HodgmanSocial Democratic Party2850.6%

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
£752 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
3.2%
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 Rosie Duffield took part in 82 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Rosie Duffield voted the same way as their party in 52 of the 70 votes where parties gave instructions (74%), and went the other way in 18.

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
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Times they voted against their party (18)

Has this changed over time?

0%50%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
View data table
MonthThis MPParty average
Oct 2533%73%
Nov 2594%76%
Dec 250%66%
Jan 2640%66%
Feb 26100%68%
Mar 26100%75%
Apr 2682%75%
Jun 26100%71%
Jul 26100%86%
Sep 26100%89%

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