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Joe Morris, MP for Hexham

Joe Morris has been an MP since 2024.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Mental Health Bill [HL]2025
Administration Committee2024 to 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.

No interests are currently registered for Joe Morris.

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.

Joe Morris asked 241 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Education34
Department for Business and Trade29
Department for Work and Pensions28
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government21
Department for Transport20

Latest questions

15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Not answered yet
15 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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
£21,289
Office costs · claims for running an office£17,258
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£4,031

59 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

Joe Morris represents Hexham. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Joe Morris

Labour

MAJORITY
3,713

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
68%

of people who could vote did

Joe Morris won with 46% of the votes, and Guy Opperman (Conservative) came second with 39%.

Votes for each party

Labour46% · 23,988
Conservative39% · 20,275
Green Party5% · 2,467
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,376
Independent3% · 1,511
Social Democratic Party2% · 1,211
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Joe MorrisLabour23,98846.3%
Guy OppermanConservative20,27539.1%
Nick MorphetGreen Party2,4674.8%
Nick CottLiberal Democrat2,3764.6%
Chris WhaleyIndependent1,5112.9%
William CloustonSocial Democratic Party1,2112.3%

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
£779 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
2.1%
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 Joe Morris took part in 202 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Joe Morris voted the same way as their party in 202 of the 202 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
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: the final voteForSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
2 SepVoting and elections: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
View data table
MonthThis MPParty average
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Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
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Mar 26100%100%
Apr 26100%100%
May 26100%100%
Jun 26100%100%
Jul 26100%99%
Sep 26100%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