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Tom Rutland

Labour East Worthing and Shoreham

Voting record

5
Voted for
0
Voted against
4
Didn’t vote

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.

See Tom Rutland’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Whip meter Estimate 82%

How often Tom Rutland 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.

Recent votes
Representation of the People Bill — voted didn't vote at 3rd reading
Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted didn't vote at 3rd reading
Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading

Government & opposition roles

No government or shadow front-bench post on file for Tom Rutland — most MPs never hold one, so this is the normal state for a backbencher, not a gap in the data.

Declared financial interests

From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Tom Rutland →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: GMB Trade Union
Address of donor: Mary Turner House, 22 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: 4 nights of accommodation at Labour Party Conference, value £1,800
Date received: 20 September 2025 to 24 September 2025
Date accepted: 20 September 2025
Donor status: trade union
(Registered 7 October 2025)

Employment & business

Name of donor: Ticketmaster UK Limited
Address of donor: 30 St. John Street, London EC1M 4AY
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to concert and tour of Co-op Live venue, including hospitality (£169 per ticket £338 total), one train ticket (£114.00) and one hotel room (£211.90), value £663.90
Date received: 8 October 2025
Date accepted: 8 October 2025
Donor status: company, registration 02662632
(Registered 4 November 2025)

Name of donor: Lawn Tennis Association
Address of donor: The National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality to the HSBC Championships, value £730
Date received: 14 June 2026
Date accepted: 14 June 2026
Donor status: company, registration 07459469
(Registered 9 July 2026)

Name of donor: Google UK Ltd
Address of donor: 1 St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8AG
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Overnight stay and hospitality at Ditchley Park as part of the AI Parliamentary Scheme by Social Market Foundation, in partnership with Google, value £538.50
Date received: 2 September 2026
Date accepted: 2 September 2026
Donor status: company, registration 03977902
(Registered 15 September 2026)

8. Miscellaneous

Unpaid director of [redacted] Management Company, a property management company.
Date interest ended: 30 June 2026
(Registered 30 July 2024; updated 9 July 2026)

Employment & business

Written questions to government

No written questions on file for Tom Rutland yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Tom Rutland has ever tabled.

Business costs (IPSA)

£240,982.65 paid out to or for Tom Rutland across 184 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 Tom Rutland’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.

By category
Staffing — £180,289.67 (7 claims)
Office Costs — £39,131.72 (127 claims)
Accommodation — £17,200.46 (38 claims)
MP Travel — £1,736.14 (8 claims)
Staff Travel — £1,487.58 (2 claims)
Miscellaneous — £976.20 (1 claim)
Dependant Travel — £160.88 (1 claim)
Most recent claims
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries — £67.50, 2026-03-27 — [200013630-75]
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries — £90.00, 2026-03-26 — [200013630-74]
Equipment - purchase — £500.00, 2026-03-25 — Other office equipment
Stationery & printing — £186.23, 2026-03-20 — Banner March 2026
Stationery & printing — £372.46, 2026-03-20 — Banner March 2026
Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £169.02, 2026-03-18 — Internet
Equipment - purchase — £2,499.99, 2026-03-17 — Printer, photocopier & scanner
Utilities — £182.38, 2026-02-19 — Water

Every claim on file for Tom Rutland →

Early Day Motions

No Early Day Motions on file as tabled by Tom Rutland — this only covers motions tabled within Hear, Hear’s current tracking window (see Early Day Motions), not necessarily Tom Rutland’s full record.

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Tom Rutland 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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