Ashley Dalton MP: votes, interests and costs
Ashley Dalton represents West Lancashire in the House of Commons for Labour and has done since 9 February 2023.
Offices and committees
Ashley Dalton sits on one committee, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 22 June 2026 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) | Department of Health and Social Care | 10 February 2025 | 2 March 2026 |
| Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) | Government Equalities Office | 28 November 2023 | 30 May 2024 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Rare Cancers Bill | 26 June 2025 | 2 July 2025 |
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 10 May 2023 | 18 May 2023 |
| Public Accounts Committee | 24 April 2023 | 11 December 2023 |
| Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill | 1 March 2023 | 8 March 2023 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 3fde4982f06a.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 1 entry for Ashley Dalton: Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). The most recent was registered on 19 December 2023. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Residential in Southend on Sea
- Date on which the land or property was acquired, or achieved registrable value: 2023-10-03
- Location of the land or property: Southend on Sea
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Owned jointly with my wife.
- Date on which the property began generating rental income: 2023-12-01
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 27 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £244,858 for Ashley Dalton in 2024-25 against a budget of £250,820. The figure for 2023-24 was £193,904. IPSA lists office spending of £31,171 in the same year. 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 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £244,858.45 | £193,904.42 | £7,049.60 |
| Office costs: spent | £31,171.41 | £29,113.80 | £3,670.46 |
| Accommodation: spent | £32,558.68 | £31,285.25 | £2,280.05 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £15,328.16 | £14,089.74 | £1,787.64 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,020, staffing £250,820, accommodation £42,229 (Standard non-London area budget; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area, with an uplift to cover the cost of one dependant, and two dependants from 24 April 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: West Lancashire CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Senior Policy Researcher (permanent part time), Administrative Officer/Comms Officer (permanent part time), Administrative Officer (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Ashley Dalton is recorded voting in 373 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 38 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. On 20 October 2026 Ashley Dalton voted Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
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
The Written Questions API lists 10 written questions from Ashley Dalton since 4 July 2024. The latest 10 were addressed to Department of Health and Social Care, Treasury, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and 2 other departments.
Independent Commission into Adult Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether artificial intelligence will be used to analyse responses submitted to the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care; and what steps will be taken to ensure that analysis reflects the vie …
Individual Savings Accounts
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of adjusting the Lifetime ISA property price cap in line with (a) inflation and (b) average house prices.
Local Government: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of (a) reinstating and (b) replacing the New Homes Bonus and (c) increasing the S31 grant.
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to extend the flexible use of capital receipts to include (a) pensions and (b) voluntary redundancies.
Local Government Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to introduce three year funding settlements for local authorities.
Asylum: Applications
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing its capacity to clear the backlog of asylum applications.
Crime: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle rural crime in Lancashire.
Crime: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to improve the enforcement of the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime in England and Wales.
35353
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children and young people in Lancashire who have experienced the death of a sibling by suicide can access timely, specialist bereavement and mental heal …
Breast Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had any discussions with the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on offering people living with HER2-low metastatic breast cancer, who are currently unable to ac …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 b44b2a1260cb. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Ashley Dalton.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election West Lancashire returned Ashley Dalton with a majority of 13,625: 22,305 votes, 50.5% of those cast, against 8,680 for Mike Prendergast. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · West Lancashire figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Ashley Dalton corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Ashley Dalton:
- Ashley Dalton corrected a written answer on Blood: Donors
- Ashley Dalton corrected a written answer on Blood: Donors
- Ashley Dalton corrected a written answer on Cancer: Clinical Trials
- Ashley Dalton corrected a written answer on Stem Cells: Donors
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.