Patrick Spencer, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Patrick Spencer has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Education); Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Education) (Department for Education) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2026 to now | Now |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 2025 | |
| Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill | 2024 | |
| Education Committee | 2024 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.
Patrick Spencer has 7 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Director, Suffolk Ventures Limited. | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Director, Blue WV Limited. | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in Suffolk | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Governor, Hollesley Waldringfield Partnership. This is an unpaid role. | 17 Jul 2024 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in London | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in IPGL | 11 Jul 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in Suffolk Ventures Limited | 11 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.
Patrick Spencer asked 95 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
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.
71 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Patrick Spencer represents Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Conservative
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Patrick Spencer won with 33% of the votes, and Kevin Craig (Labour) came second with 23%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Spencer | Conservative | 15,144 | 32.6% |
| Kevin Craig | Labour | 10,854 | 23.4% |
| Tony Gould | Reform UK | 8,806 | 19.0% |
| Daniel Pratt | Green Party | 5,652 | 12.2% |
| Brett Mickelburgh | Liberal Democrat | 5,407 | 11.6% |
| Charlie Caiger | Independent | 366 | 0.8% |
| Mike Hallatt | Independent | 194 | 0.4% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Patrick Spencer took part in 232 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Patrick Spencer voted the same way as their party in 91 of the 199 votes where parties gave instructions (46%), and went the other way in 108.
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
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (108)
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 9% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 36% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 25% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 36% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 33% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 79% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 70% | 100% |
| May 26 | 50% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 32% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 43% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 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