Matt Vickers, MP for Stockton West
Matt Vickers has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire); Immigration and Asylum Bill.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire) (Home Office) | 2024 to now | Now |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Immigration and Asylum Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Crime and Policing Bill | 2025 | |
| Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill | 2025 | |
| Finance (No.2) Bill | 2024 | |
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill | 2022 | |
| Public Order Bill | 2022 |
Show the other 6
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Home Affairs Committee | 2022 | |
| Justice Committee | 2022 | |
| Glue Traps (Offences) Bill | 2022 | |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Petitions Committee | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union | 2020 to 2021 |
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.
Matt Vickers has 4 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | John James - £16,000.00 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Stuart Leach Associates Limited - £12,000.00 | 1 Jun 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Thornaby Town Deal Fund Board. This is an unpaid role. | 11 Dec 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Friends of Fairfield Play Park, a registered charity that is seeking to establish a play park in the Fairfield Community for the benefit of residents and their children. This is an unpaid role. | 9 May 2024 |
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.
Matt Vickers asked 566 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.
71 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
Matt Vickers represents Stockton West. 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
Matt Vickers won with 42% of the votes, and Joe Dancey (Labour) came second with 37%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Vickers | Conservative | 20,372 | 41.9% |
| Joe Dancey | Labour | 18,233 | 37.5% |
| Steve Matthews | Reform UK | 6,833 | 14.0% |
| Anna-Maria Toms | Green Party | 1,477 | 3.0% |
| Nigel Boddy | Liberal Democrat | 1,203 | 2.5% |
| Mohammed Zaroof | Independent | 263 | 0.5% |
| Niko Omilana | Independent | 106 | 0.2% |
| Vivek Chhabra | Independent | 106 | 0.2% |
| Monty Brack | Independents for Direct Democracy | 45 | 0.1% |
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 Matt Vickers took part in 192 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Matt Vickers voted the same way as their party in 190 of the 190 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 |
| 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 |
| 7 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