Fred Thomas, MP for Plymouth Moor View
Fred Thomas has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Defence Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Defence Committee | 2024 to now | Now |
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.
Fred Thomas has 6 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Germany between 08 May 2026 and 11 May 2026 | 20 May 2026 |
| Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK | APROPOS Group - £1,872.25 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Finland between 26 November 2025 and 29 November 2025 | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Honorary unpaid position as 'ambassador' for the HALO Trust, the UK mine clearance and conflict prevention charity. | 8 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid director of a property management company. | 1 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Gwithian Chapel Ltd, small village charity that owns and administrates a community hall. This is an unpaid role. | 15 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.
Fred Thomas asked 17 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.
97 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
Fred Thomas represents Plymouth Moor View. 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
Fred Thomas won with 41% of the votes, and Johnny Mercer (Conservative) came second with 28%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Thomas | Labour | 17,665 | 41.2% |
| Johnny Mercer | Conservative | 12,061 | 28.1% |
| Shaun Hooper | Reform UK | 9,670 | 22.6% |
| Sarah Martin | Liberal Democrat | 1,766 | 4.1% |
| Georgia Nelson | Green Party | 1,694 | 4.0% |
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 Fred Thomas took part in 172 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Fred Thomas voted the same way as their party in 170 of the 170 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
| 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 |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 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