Nick Thomas-Symonds
Labour Torfaen
Voting record
Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.
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How often Nick Thomas-Symonds voted the same way as most of the Labour party, across every recorded division. Parliament doesn’t publish whether a vote was officially whipped, so this is our best estimate from the public record — not a confirmed fact.
Government & opposition roles
Nick Thomas-Symonds doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.
Declared financial interests
From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Nick Thomas-Symonds →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Role, work or services: Royalties for books
Payer: The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd, 17 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA
Payment: £529.27 Royalty payments for a previously published book
Received on: 25 November 2025. Hours: No extra hours.
Ultimate payer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson United Kingdom, Orion Publishing Group (Publisher), Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC47 0DZ
(Registered 28 November 2025)
Payment: £101.82 Royalties for two books written before entering Parliament
Received on: 26 June 2026. Hours: no additional hours.
Ultimate payer: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (Publisher), Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ
(Registered 27 June 2026)
Payment: £496.08 Royalties for a previously published book
Received on: 26 June 2026. Hours: No additional hours.
Ultimate payer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Publisher), 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP
(Registered 27 June 2026)
Payment: £60.03 Royalties for books written before entering Parliament.
Received on: 11 August 2026. Hours: no hours entered.
Ultimate payer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Publisher), 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DB
(Registered 17 August 2026)
Barrister, not currently practising.
(Registered 3 June 2015)
Member of the Neighbourhood Board for Cwmbran in my capacity as the local MP. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 8 May 2024
(Registered 21 May 2024; updated 1 May 2025)
Honorary Fellowship of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 2 June 2025
(Registered 2 June 2025)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Nick Thomas-Symonds yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Nick Thomas-Symonds has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£272,830.93 paid out to or for Nick Thomas-Symonds across 165 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Nick Thomas-Symonds’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.
Early Day Motions
No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Nick Thomas-Symonds — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Nick Thomas-Symonds’s full record.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Nick Thomas-Symonds isn’t listed as an officer of any All-Party Parliamentary Group on file — true of most MPs. See APPGs for the full register.
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