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Tristan Osborne, MP for Chatham and Aylesford

Tristan Osborne 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
Courts and Tribunals Bill2026
Public Accounts Committee2025 to nowNow
Victims and Courts Bill2025
Finance Bill2025
Tobacco and Vapes Bill2024 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.

Tristan Osborne has 3 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousEx-officio Luton Pride in Place Board. This is an unpaid role.15 Sep 2026
Visits outside the UKInternational visit to Taiwan between 06 July 2026 and 10 July 202627 Jul 2026
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in Rochester, Kent30 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.

Tristan Osborne asked 59 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Education9
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs9
Department of Health and Social Care7
Treasury7
Department for Work and Pensions6

Latest questions

28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 16 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 10 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answered 8 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Education
Not answered yet
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Education
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
£11,481
Office costs · claims for running an office£11,481

34 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

Tristan Osborne represents Chatham and Aylesford. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Tristan Osborne

Labour

MAJORITY
1,998

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
54%

of people who could vote did

Tristan Osborne won with 34% of the votes, and Nathan Gamester (Conservative) came second with 29%.

Votes for each party

Labour34% · 13,689
Conservative29% · 11,691
Reform UK24% · 9,989
Green Party6% · 2,504
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,175
Workers Party of Britain1% · 340
Everyone else1% · 457
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Tristan OsborneLabour13,68933.5%
Nathan GamesterConservative11,69128.6%
Thomas MallonReform UK9,98924.5%
Kim WinterbottomGreen Party2,5046.1%
Nicholas ChanLiberal Democrat2,1755.3%
Matt ValentineWorkers Party of Britain3400.8%
Adedotun OgundemurenChristian Peoples Alliance3160.8%
Steve TannerSocial Democratic Party1410.3%

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
£734 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
4.0%
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 Tristan Osborne took part in 251 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Tristan Osborne voted the same way as their party in 249 of the 249 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
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MonthThis MPParty average
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Jan 26100%100%
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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