Chris Hinchliff MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire is Chris Hinchliff (Labour).
Offices and committees
Chris Hinchliff sits on one committee, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Audit Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 b134c9428d0b.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Chris Hinchliff, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 27 January 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
I was elected as an Officer of the Labour Rural Research Group (LRRG), a formally constituted group within the Labour Party focused on rural policy development and advocacy. This is an unpaid role. As an Officer, I am involved in the direction of the group and contribute to its work and engagements.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2026-01-12
- The type of interest: Formal role with a party organisation
Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-07-15
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 27 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Chris Hinchliff's office spent £133,262 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £24,985 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 | £133,261.59 |
| Office costs: spent | £24,984.99 |
| Accommodation: spent | £14,820.41 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £1,840.43 |
| 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: North East Hertfordshire CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Constituency Support Manager (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent part time), Senior Communication Officer (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term part time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Chris Hinchliff voted in the House of Commons: 528 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 52 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 Chris Hinchliff voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 24 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 210 written questions from Chris Hinchliff since 4 July 2024. The latest 10 were addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Defence.
Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, by which date she intends to enact section 102 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.
Planning Permission: Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of planning applications under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 have claimed the de minimis exemption from biodiversity net gain each year since 2024.
Planning Permission: Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's joint guidance entitled Biodiversity net gain, updated on 31 July 2026, what assessment she has made of the potent impact of changes to evidential re …
Environment Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed appropriate prioritisation approach within Environmental Delivery Plans on environmental harm; and what framework w …
Fisheries
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out her Department's priority areas for improving fisheries transparency (a) domestically and (b) in the UK's international seafood supply chains.
Fisheries: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement on the UK's capacity to warn and sanction states that are non-cooperat …
Environmental Delivery Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the evidential basis for determining that there is a clear need for Environmental Delivery Plans; whether that evidence will be published; and what assessment she has made of t …
Environmental Delivery Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to publish its assessment of the effectiveness of Environmental Delivery Plans; what criteria will be used to evaluate their success; and whether further Envi …
Public Works Loan Board: Housing Revenue Accounts
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the latest available figure is for Housing Revenue Account debt owed to the Public Works Loans Board by local authorities, including (a) the collective figure for all local …
Defence: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take through defence spending to improve national resilience.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 1847cc260f7f. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Chris Hinchliff.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election North East Hertfordshire returned Chris Hinchliff with a majority of 1,923: 18,358 votes, 35.0% of those cast, against 16,435 for Nikki Da Costa. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · North East Hertfordshire 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.