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Samantha Dixon, MP for Chester North and Neston

Samantha Dixon has been an MP since 2022. Currently: Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art; Speaker's Conference (2024).

Roles and committees

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

In government

PostWhen
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)2025 to 2026
Vice Chamberlain (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons) (HM Household)2024 to 2025

In opposition

PostWhen
Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons))2023 to 2024

Committees

PostWhen
Representation of the People Bill2026
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission2025 to 2026
Victims and Courts Bill2025
Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art2025 to nowNow
Speaker's Conference (2024)2024 to nowNow
Committee of Selection2024 to 2025
Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Bill (Formerly known as Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill)2024
Treasury Committee2024
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PostWhen
Treasury Sub-Committee on Financial Services Regulations2024
Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]2024
Procedure Committee2023 to 2024
Finance (No. 2) Bill2023

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 Samantha Dixon.

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.

Samantha Dixon asked 6 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Work and Pensions2
Department for Education1
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office1
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs1
Treasury1

Latest questions

14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Not answered yet
11 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answered 18 Sep 2026
11 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Not answered yet
11 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Not answered yet

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
£16,083
Office costs · claims for running an office£13,513
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£2,570

54 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

Samantha Dixon represents Chester North and Neston. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Samantha Dixon

Labour

MAJORITY
11,870

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
64%

of people who could vote did

Samantha Dixon won with 50% of the votes, and Simon Eardley (Conservative) came second with 23%.

Votes for each party

Labour50% · 22,258
Conservative23% · 10,388
Reform UK13% · 5,870
Green Party9% · 4,102
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,076
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Samantha DixonLabour22,25849.8%
Simon EardleyConservative10,38823.2%
Nicholas GouldingReform UK5,87013.1%
Nick BrownGreen Party4,1029.2%
Steve GribbonLiberal Democrat2,0764.6%

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
£732 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
2.9%
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 Samantha Dixon took part in 202 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Samantha Dixon voted the same way as their party in 200 of the 200 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

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteForFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateForFree vote
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: the final voteForSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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MonthThis MPParty average
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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