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Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke

Luke Murphy has been an MP since 2024.

Roles and committees

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

Committees

PostWhen
Treasury Committee2025 to 2026
Pension Schemes Bill2025
Planning and Infrastructure Bill2025
Energy Security and Net Zero 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.

Luke Murphy has 1 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousUnpaid member of the independent Housing Policy and Delivery Oversight Committee17 Oct 2025

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.

Luke Murphy asked 45 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department of Health and Social Care7
Department for Work and Pensions6
Department for Education6
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government5
Treasury5

Latest questions

7 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 21 Sep 2026
7 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Work and Pensions
Answered 21 Sep 2026
1 Sep 2026 · to the Department of Health and Social Care
Answered 14 Sep 2026
1 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 9 Sep 2026
1 Sep 2026 · to the Department for Education
Answered 9 Sep 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
£12,674
Office costs · claims for running an office£10,653
Staffing · claims relating to staff£125
Accommodation · claims for somewhere to stay£1,896

60 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

Luke Murphy represents Basingstoke. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Luke Murphy

Labour

MAJORITY
6,484

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
62%

of people who could vote did

Luke Murphy won with 43% of the votes, and Maria Miller (Conservative) came second with 29%.

Votes for each party

Labour43% · 20,922
Conservative29% · 14,438
Reform UK13% · 6,314
Green Party7% · 3,568
Liberal Democrat6% · 3,176
Hampshire Independents1% · 571
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Luke MurphyLabour20,92242.7%
Maria MillerConservative14,43829.5%
Ray SaintReform UK6,31412.9%
Michael Howard-SorrellGreen Party3,5687.3%
Richard WhelanLiberal Democrat3,1766.5%
Alan StoneHampshire Independents5711.2%

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
£812 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 Luke Murphy took part in 189 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Luke Murphy voted the same way as their party in 187 of the 187 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
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
7 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
14 JulAccountability of public officials: 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
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Jan 26100%100%
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May 26100%100%
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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