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Jim Dickson, MP for Dartford

Jim Dickson has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Treasury Committee.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Treasury Committee2025 to nowNow
Football Governance Bill [HL]2025
Planning and Infrastructure 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.

Jim Dickson has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
ShareholdingsShares in Four Communications1 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.

Jim Dickson asked 42 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care17
Department for Education6
Department for Transport4
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs3
Home Office3

Latest questions

1 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 14 Sep 2026
1 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 14 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Transport
Answered 7 Sep 2026
28 Aug 2026 · to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answered 3 Sep 2026
24 Jun 2026 · to the Home Office
Answered 30 Jun 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
£5,243
Office costs · claims for running an office£5,243

36 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

Jim Dickson represents Dartford. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Jim Dickson

Labour

MAJORITY
1,192

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
59%

of people who could vote did

Jim Dickson won with 35% of the votes, and Gareth Johnson (Conservative) came second with 32%.

Votes for each party

Labour35% · 15,392
Conservative32% · 14,200
Reform UK21% · 9,523
Green Party7% · 3,189
Liberal Democrat5% · 2,184
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Jim DicksonLabour15,39234.6%
Gareth JohnsonConservative14,20031.9%
Lee StrandersReform UK9,52321.4%
Laura EdieGreen Party3,1897.2%
Kyle MarshLiberal Democrat2,1844.9%

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
£800 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
3.3%
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 Jim Dickson took part in 228 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Jim Dickson voted the same way as their party in 226 of the 226 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%
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