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Peter Fortune, MP for Bromley and Biggin Hill

Peter Fortune has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade).

Roles and committees

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

In opposition

PostWhen
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)2026 to nowNow

Committees

PostWhen
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill2025
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]2025
Public Accounts 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.

Peter Fortune has 4 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sourcesSilverstone Circuits Ltd - £1,860.006 Jul 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Israel between 04 January 2026 and 09 January 202624 Feb 2026
MiscellaneousCompany Director, DeCantelo Ltd.4 Aug 2024
ShareholdingsShares in DeCantelo Ltd24 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.

Peter Fortune asked 32 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Treasury8
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs8
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology6
Department for Transport2
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government2

Latest questions

9 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answered 16 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Treasury
Answered 7 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Treasury
Answered 7 Sep 2026
7 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answered 15 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Answered 15 Jul 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
£8,299
Office costs · claims for running an office£7,924
Staffing · claims relating to staff£375

12 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

Peter Fortune represents Bromley and Biggin Hill. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Peter Fortune

Conservative

MAJORITY
302

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
66%

of people who could vote did

Peter Fortune won with 34% of the votes, and Oana Olaru-Holmes (Labour) came second with 33%.

Votes for each party

Conservative34% · 15,929
Labour33% · 15,627
Reform UK18% · 8,203
Liberal Democrat9% · 4,352
Green Party6% · 2,583
Climate Party0% · 94
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Peter FortuneConservative15,92934.0%
Oana Olaru-HolmesLabour15,62733.4%
Alan CookReform UK8,20317.5%
Julie IrelandLiberal Democrat4,3529.3%
Caroline SandesGreen Party2,5835.5%
Karen MillerClimate Party940.2%

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
£1,019 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
3.2%
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 Peter Fortune took part in 207 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Peter Fortune voted the same way as their party in 206 of the 206 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 voteAgainstFree vote
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeForSame as party
7 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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May 26100%100%
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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