Matt Bishop, MP for Forest of Dean
Matt Bishop has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Justice Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Courts and Tribunals Bill | 2026 | |
| Crime and Policing Bill | 2025 | |
| Justice Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 2025 | |
| Finance Committee (Commons) | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Programming sub committee | 2024 | |
| Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill | 2024 |
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.
Matt Bishop has 6 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Honorary Member of Daffodil Court Residents Association, Newent. This is an unpaid role. | 9 Jun 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Committee Member for NARPO - Gwent Police Branch. This is an unpaid role. | 27 May 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Director of PATA Nurseries. This is an unpaid role. | 11 Feb 2026 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Harry's Pals charity. This is an unpaid role. | 2 Nov 2025 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Gibraltar between 08 September 2025 and 10 September 2025 | 15 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Trustee of Earlybirds Playgroup. This is an unpaid role. | 10 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.
Matt Bishop asked 16 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.
72 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
Matt Bishop represents Forest of Dean. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Matt Bishop won with 34% of the votes, and Mark Harper (Conservative) came second with 33%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Bishop | Labour | 16,373 | 34.0% |
| Mark Harper | Conservative | 16,095 | 33.5% |
| Stan Goodin | Reform UK | 8,194 | 17.0% |
| Chris McFarling | Green Party | 4,735 | 9.8% |
| James Joyce | Liberal Democrat | 2,604 | 5.4% |
| Saiham Sikder | Socialist Labour Party | 90 | 0.2% |
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 Matt Bishop took part in 112 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Matt Bishop voted the same way as their party in 110 of the 110 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
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | For | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | Free vote |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 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