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Chris Bloore, MP for Redditch

Chris Bloore has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee; Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls; Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee2026 to nowNow
Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls2026 to nowNow
Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill2025
Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill2025 to nowNow
Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill2025
Mental Health Bill [HL]2025
Northern Ireland Affairs 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.

Chris Bloore has 2 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Employment and earningsSole director and shareholder - What'sNextCommunicationsLTD1 Aug 2024
ShareholdingsShares in What'sNextCommunicationsLTD1 Aug 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.

Chris Bloore asked 139 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Treasury29
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero21
Home Office17
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology14
Department of Health and Social Care13

Latest questions

14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
14 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
8 Sep 2026 · to the Treasury
Answered 17 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
£15,303
Office costs · claims for running an office£15,104
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£199

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

Chris Bloore represents Redditch. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Chris Bloore

Labour

MAJORITY
789

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
60%

of people who could vote did

Chris Bloore won with 35% of the votes, and Rachel Maclean (Conservative) came second with 33%.

Votes for each party

Labour35% · 14,810
Conservative33% · 14,021
Reform UK20% · 8,516
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,165
Green Party5% · 2,098
Workers Party of Britain2% · 765
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Chris BlooreLabour14,81034.9%
Rachel MacleanConservative14,02133.1%
Julie AllisonReform UK8,51620.1%
Andrew Fieldsend-RoxboroughLiberal Democrat2,1655.1%
David ThainGreen Party2,0985.0%
Mohammed AminWorkers Party of Britain7651.8%

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
£713 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
3.7%
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 Chris Bloore took part in 175 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Chris Bloore voted the same way as their party in 173 of the 173 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 changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: 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
Oct 25100%100%
Nov 25100%100%
Dec 25100%100%
Jan 26100%100%
Feb 26100%100%
Mar 26100%100%
Apr 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