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Lloyd Hatton, MP for South Dorset

Lloyd Hatton has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Public Accounts Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Representation of the People Bill2026
Railways Bill2026
Public Accounts 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.

No interests are currently registered for Lloyd Hatton.

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.

Lloyd Hatton asked 33 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Treasury11
Department for Business and Trade6
Cabinet Office3
Department of Health and Social Care2
Ministry of Defence2

Latest questions

9 Jul 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 10 Sep 2026
9 Jul 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 18 Aug 2026
9 Jul 2026 · to the Treasury
Answered 17 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026 · to the Ministry of Defence
Answered 17 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026 · to the Cabinet Office
Answered 16 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
£16,518
Office costs · claims for running an office£16,518

51 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

Lloyd Hatton represents South Dorset. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Lloyd Hatton

Labour

MAJORITY
1,048

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
65%

of people who could vote did

Lloyd Hatton won with 32% of the votes, and Richard Drax (Conservative) came second with 30%.

Votes for each party

Labour32% · 15,659
Conservative30% · 14,611
Reform UK17% · 8,168
Liberal Democrat16% · 8,017
Green Party4% · 2,153
Independent1% · 429
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Lloyd HattonLabour15,65931.9%
Richard DraxConservative14,61129.8%
Morgan YoungReform UK8,16816.7%
Matt BellLiberal Democrat8,01716.3%
Catherine BennettGreen Party2,1534.4%
Joy WilsonIndependent1920.4%
Giovanna LewisIndependent1850.4%
Rosie MorrellIndependent520.1%

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
£698 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
2.7%
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 Lloyd Hatton took part in 215 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Lloyd Hatton voted the same way as their party in 213 of the 213 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
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: 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
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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