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Liz Jarvis, MP for Eastleigh

Liz Jarvis has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Tobacco and Vapes Bill2024 to 2025
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee2024 to nowNow

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.

Liz Jarvis has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesThe Football Association Premier League - £555.0014 Feb 2026

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.

Liz Jarvis asked 335 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care78
Department for Education49
Department for Work and Pensions33
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs26
Department for Transport25

Latest questions

4 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 22 Sep 2026
3 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 11 Sep 2026
28 Aug 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 14 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 14 Sep 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
£21,038
Office costs · claims for running an office£16,264
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£4,774

60 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

Liz Jarvis represents Eastleigh. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Liz Jarvis

Liberal Democrat

MAJORITY
1,546

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
66%

of people who could vote did

Liz Jarvis won with 34% of the votes, and Sam Joynson (Conservative) came second with 31%.

Votes for each party

Liberal Democrat34% · 15,970
Conservative31% · 14,424
Labour15% · 7,005
Reform UK13% · 6,151
Green Party5% · 2,403
Independent1% · 467
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Liz JarvisLiberal Democrat15,97034.4%
Sam JoynsonConservative14,42431.1%
Daniel ShearerLabour7,00515.1%
Clare FawcettReform UK6,15113.3%
Ben ParryGreen Party2,4035.2%
Russ KitchingIndependent4671.0%

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
£809 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
2.3%
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 Liz Jarvis took part in 211 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Liz Jarvis voted the same way as their party in 209 of the 209 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
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame 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