Chris Philp MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Croydon South is Chris Philp (Conservative), MP there since 7 May 2015. Current post: Shadow Home Secretary, held since 5 November 2024.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists one current post for Chris Philp.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Home Secretary | Home Office | 5 November 2024 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Home Office) | Home Office | 26 October 2022 | 5 July 2024 |
| Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office | Cabinet Office | 14 October 2022 | 25 October 2022 |
| Chief Secretary to the Treasury | HM Treasury | 6 September 2022 | 14 October 2022 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | 16 September 2021 | 7 July 2022 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) | Home Office | 13 February 2020 | 16 September 2021 |
| Minister of State (London) | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 18 December 2019 | 13 February 2020 |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) | Ministry of Justice | 10 September 2019 | 13 February 2020 |
| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | Office of the Leader of the House of Commons | 8 July 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Modernisation Committee | 9 September 2024 | 18 November 2024 |
| Restoration and Renewal Client Board | 22 July 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
| House of Commons Commission | 8 July 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
| Members Estimate Committee | 8 July 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
| Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill | 1 May 2024 | 8 May 2024 |
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 7 February 2024 | 30 May 2024 |
| Criminal Justice Bill | 6 December 2023 | 30 January 2024 |
| Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill | 25 January 2023 | 1 February 2023 |
| Online Safety Bill | 18 May 2022 | 28 June 2022 |
| Nationality and Borders Bill | 15 September 2021 | 19 September 2021 |
| Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | 12 May 2021 | 24 June 2021 |
| Treasury Committee | 8 July 2015 | 3 May 2017 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 51cd109283af.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Chris Philp, as the MP registered them: Shareholdings (5), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (3), Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 13 July 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Anthony Todd - £10,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: Support for my work as Shadow Home Secretary
- Value of the benefit: £10,000.00
- Name of the donor: Anthony Todd
- Status of the donor: Individual
Jonathan Lourie - £10,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: Support for my work as Shadow Home Secretary
- Value of the benefit: £10,000.00
- Name of the donor: Jonathan Lourie
- Status of the donor: Individual
Alan Morgan - £10,000.00
- How the donation was received: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: Support for my work as Shadow Home Secretary
- Value of the benefit: £10,000.00
- Name of the donor: Alan Morgan
- Status of the donor: Individual
Shares in Galenic Laboratories Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (ii) Other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000
- Date on which the holding was acquired, or achieved registrable value: 2024-10-21
- Name of the company or partnership: Galenic Laboratories Ltd
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Compounding Pharmacy
A company in which Millgap Ltd holds beneficial ownership of 0.375% became accredited for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2021-03-22
- The type of interest: Other
A company to which a subsidiary of Pluto Partners LLP provides services became accredited for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2021-03-22
- The type of interest: Other
Shares in Pluto Development Partners LLP
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Pluto Development Partners LLP
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Property finance and investment
Shares in Pluto Partners LLP
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Pluto Partners LLP
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Property finance and investment
Shares in Millgap Ltd
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Millgap Ltd
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Consulting, advisory and investment
Shares in Pluto Capital Management LLP
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Pluto Capital Management LLP
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Property finance and investment
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Chris Philp's office spent £206,141 on staff, from a staffing budget of £268,550, according to IPSA. The figure for 2023-24 was £183,334. IPSA lists office spending of £9,458 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 | £206,140.61 | £183,333.84 | £180,601.36 |
| Office costs: spent | £9,458.14 | £10,555.88 | £12,146.64 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Winding-up: spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £36,550, staffing £268,550, accommodation £0 (Standard London area budget).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Croydon South BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Parliamentary Assistant ×3 (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Executive Officer (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Chris Philp is recorded voting in 398 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 43 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 Chris Philp voted No on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Chris Philp has tabled 135 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Home Office, Ministry of Justice.
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were not recorded as having left the UK before the expiry of their visa in the year ending March 2024.
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were not recorded as having left the UK before the expiry of their visa in the year ending March 2026.
Visas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were not recorded as having left the UK before the expiry of their visa in the year ending March 2025.
Offenders: Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders (a) are eligible for deportation under the Early Release Scheme and (b) have been deported.
Palestine Action
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of potential impact on local communities of the publication of an interactive map of targets across Britain by a website operating under the Palestine Action na …
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2026 to Question 28351 on Offenders: Foreign Nationals, if she will publish the number of foreign national offenders sentenced to less than a year in prison who …
Palestine Action: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of action taken by social media companies to remove accounts and content associated with Palestine Action.
Palestine Action
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason Palestine Action is able to recruit supporters, provide operational guidance and use established branding online; and what steps her Department is taking to help prevent those activiti …
Public Order and Hate Crime Legislation Review
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 20 April 2026 to Question 126358 on Freedom of Expression, whether the independent review into public order and hate crime legislation has reported to her; and when that revi …
Offenders: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders were convicted of any criminal offence but not sentenced to prison, broken down by offence type, in the year ending June 2026.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 09df7728744e. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Chris Philp.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Croydon South returned Chris Philp with a majority of 2,313: 19,757 votes, 40.0% of those cast, against 17,444 for Ben Taylor. Result as published: Con hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Croydon South figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Statements
- Chris Philp on small boat arrivals, 5 January 2026
Chris Philp said: “The numbers are going up: 41,000 illegal immigrants crossed the channel last year, a 40% increase on 2023.” This page repeats what Home Office reports.
Official corrections
Records in which Chris Philp corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Chris Philp:
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.