Adam Dance MP: votes, interests and costs
Adam Dance (Liberal Democrat) is the MP for Yeovil, elected on 4 July 2024.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no government or opposition post and no select committee membership for Adam Dance (read 15 October 2026).
Register of interests
Adam Dance has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 16 July 2024 and the latest on 30 October 2024. By category: Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (1), Miscellaneous (1), Employment and earnings (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
National Liberal Club - £863.69
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: honorary membership of National Liberal Club for those who reside outside London
- Value of the benefit: £863.69
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2024-09-16
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2024-09-16
- End date, if the benefit was received over time: 2025-12-31
- Name of the donor: National Liberal Club
- Status of the donor: Other
South Petherton Parish Councilor. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Councilor - Somerset Council
- Type of work or service being provided: Councilor
- Name of the payer: Somerset Council
- Agreement - £1,291.67
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 27 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Adam Dance's 2024-25 staffing spend as £145,318 (budget £185,538). IPSA lists office spending of £22,775 in the same year. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £145,317.51 |
| Office costs: spent | £22,774.73 |
| Accommodation: spent | £18,333.38 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £11,304.22 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Yeovil CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Personal Assistant ×2 (permanent part time), Constituency Support Manager (permanent part time), Caseworker ×3 (permanent part time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Administrative Manager (permanent part time), Senior Researcher (permanent part time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Communications Advisor (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Adam Dance voted in the House of Commons: 441 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 38 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. On 21 October 2026 Adam Dance voted Aye on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 27 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Since 4 July 2024, 703 written questions have been tabled by Adam Dance, the parliamentary record shows. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health and Social Care and 1 other departments.
Food: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of establishing a set of core national production standards for domestically produced and imported food.
Self-employed: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a Government-backed Collective Defined Contribution scheme for self-employed workers.
Self-employed: Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to The Pensions Commission’s Interim Report Pension 2050: Evidence and Future Priorities, what steps he is taking to (a) encourage and (b) support self-employed workers to save into a pri …
ADHD and Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve continuity of care for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism.
ADHD and Autism: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to strengthen the evidence base on the use of digital and AI-enabled tools in (a) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and (b) autism assessments to enable the National …
ADHD and Autism: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to enable stronger (a) oversight and (b) accountability across ADHD and autism services by the Care Quality Commission.
ADHD
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to provide clearer (a) national commissioning guidance and (b) implementation support on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for NHS Integrated Care Boards.
ADHD and Autism: Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure people with (a) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder clear and (b) autism have accessible information about their Right to Choose a provider under the NHS Con …
Autism: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to provide clearer (a) national commissioning guidance and (b) implementation support on autism for NHS Integrated Care Boards.
Police: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 28 August 2026 to Question 24272, whether a similar internal strategic review of awareness of (a) mental health and (b) neurodiversity will be conducted by the Countering Vio …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c6cdf1798b99. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Adam Dance.
2024 general election
The House of Commons Library records a majority of 12,268 for Adam Dance in Yeovil in July 2024, from 23,765 votes on a turnout of 61.3%. Result as published: LD gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Yeovil figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.