Dr Simon Opher, MP for Stroud
Simon Opher has been an MP since 2024.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill | 2025 |
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.
Simon Opher has 14 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Unison - £4,500.00 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Labour Together Limited - £5,000.00 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Unison - £3,000.00 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment expected for services on 11 June 2026 - £900.00 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources | SXSW London - £1,560.00 | 3 Jun 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Brazil between 13 April 2026 and 19 April 2026 | 20 Apr 2026 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 23 March 2026 - £1,550.00 | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Political Patron for CRAFT (the new body for the UK comedy industry). This is an unpaid role. | 6 Mar 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Vice President of Cotswold Canal Trust. This is an unpaid role. | 2 Dec 2025 |
| Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments | Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £1,500.00 | 17 Oct 2025 |
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| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Palestine between 14 September 2025 and 16 September 2025 | 18 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role. | 22 Jul 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Director of Prema Arts Centre, Uley. This is an unpaid role. | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Employment and earnings | Locum Doctor - NHS | 17 Jul 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.
Simon Opher asked 87 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.
67 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
Simon Opher represents Stroud. 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
Simon Opher won with 46% of the votes, and Siobhan Baillie (Conservative) came second with 26%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Opher | Labour | 25,607 | 46.4% |
| Siobhan Baillie | Conservative | 14,219 | 25.7% |
| Chris Lester | Reform UK | 6,329 | 11.5% |
| Pete Kennedy | Green Party | 5,729 | 10.4% |
| George James | Liberal Democrat | 2,913 | 5.3% |
| Saskia Whitfield | Independent | 261 | 0.5% |
| Jason Hughes | Volt United Kingdom | 163 | 0.3% |
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 Simon Opher took part in 220 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Simon Opher voted the same way as their party in 217 of the 218 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 1.
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 | For | Free vote |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (1)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Nov | Local government and devolution in England: a proposed change | For | Against |
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 97% | 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% | 99% |
| 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