Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
Luke Pollard has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Minister of State (Ministry of Defence).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Ministry of Defence) | 2025 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces) (Ministry of Defence) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Defence) (Ministry of Defence) | 2022 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Fisheries, Flooding and Water) (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) | 2018 to 2020 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Armed Forces Commissioner Bill | 2024 | |
| Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] | 2023 | |
| Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee | 2023 | |
| Firearms Bill | 2023 | |
| Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill | 2023 | |
| Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Bill | 2023 | |
| Transport Committee | 2017 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 Luke Pollard.
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.
Luke Pollard 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.
97 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
Luke Pollard represents Plymouth Sutton and Devonport. 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
Luke Pollard won with 49% of the votes, and Peter Gold (Reform UK) came second with 18%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Pollard | Labour | 20,795 | 49.4% |
| Peter Gold | Reform UK | 7,467 | 17.7% |
| Gareth Streeter | Conservative | 6,873 | 16.3% |
| Cam Hayward | Green Party | 3,186 | 7.6% |
| Holly Greenberry-Pullen | Liberal Democrat | 2,441 | 5.8% |
| Chaz Singh | Independent | 619 | 1.5% |
| Guy Haywood | Workers Party of Britain | 311 | 0.7% |
| Alex Moore | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 220 | 0.5% |
| Robert Hawkins | Socialist Labour Party | 183 | 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 Luke Pollard took part in 137 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Luke Pollard voted the same way as their party in 135 of the 135 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 | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 4 Sep | Motion to sit in private | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: 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% |
| 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