Helena Dollimore MP: votes, interests and costs
Helena Dollimore represents Hastings and Rye in the House of Commons for Labour (Co-op).
Offices and committees
Helena Dollimore sits on 2 committees, according to the Parliament Members API.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) | 2 June 2025 | Current |
| Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) | 2 June 2025 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 15 January 2026 | 3 February 2026 |
| Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority | 12 January 2026 | 23 June 2026 |
| Water (Special Measures) Bill [HL] | 18 December 2024 | 16 January 2025 |
| Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee | 28 October 2024 | 17 November 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 536f69d1fba9.
Register of interests
Helena Dollimore has 5 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 4 August 2024 and the latest on 9 June 2026. By category: Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (3), Visits outside the UK (1), Miscellaneous (1). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Alison Wedgwood - £5,000.00
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: To help my work supporting residents of Hastings, Rye and the villages.
- Value of the benefit: £5,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-05-12
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-05-12
- Name of the donor: Alison Wedgwood
- Status of the donor: Individual
International visit to Indonesia between 26 March 2026 and 04 April 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Conservation visit with cross-party MPs to see work of the charity in action and impact of deforestation and palm oil supply chain on Borneo, hosted by international conservation organisation.
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-03-26
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-04-04
UNISON - £1,500.00
- 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 towards my annual Christmas card printing / postage costs
- Value of the benefit: £1,500.00
- Name of the donor: UNISON
- Status of the donor: Trade Union
GMB Southern Region - £6,600.00
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Support for a constituency office, estimated value £550 per calendar month
- Value of the benefit: £6,600.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-11-07
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-11-07
- Name of the donor: GMB Southern Region
- Status of the donor: Trade Union
Army Reservist. I have not received any earnings since being elected.
- The type of interest: Other
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 £185,538 for Helena Dollimore in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. IPSA lists office spending of £24,468 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 | £185,538.08 |
| Office costs: spent | £24,468.10 |
| Accommodation: spent | £10,212.93 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £1,777.97 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £166.96 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £14,750 (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 outside the London area from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Hastings and Rye CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Intern (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term part time), Office Manager (permanent part time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (fixed term part time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (fixed term part time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (fixed term full time), Intern (fixed term part time), Communications Officer (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Helena Dollimore voted in the House of Commons: 483 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 49 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 Helena Dollimore 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
Helena Dollimore has tabled 41 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department of Health and Social Care and 3 other departments.
Sudan: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) aid workers are protected and (b) UK humanitarian aid is able to reach those in conflict zones in Sudan.
Sudan: Armed Conflict
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support victims of sexual violence in the conflict in Sudan.
Water Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the total value of UK water companies.
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase awareness to ensure that women with the NF1 gene undergo the breast cancer screening to which they are entitled.
Plan for Neighbourhoods: Hastings
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Plan for Neighbourhoods on Hastings.
Community Assets
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support community ownership of local assets.
Bayeux Tapestry
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the British Museum will retain the ticketing revenue from the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.
Bayeux Tapestry
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to increase its grant in aid funding for the Bayeux Tapestry display at the British Museum.
Ashford International Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of international rail travel from Ashford International on economic growth.
Keratoconus: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS (a) treatment for and (b) diagnosis of keratoconus.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 9f64c08e9bc9. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Helena Dollimore.
2024 general election
Helena Dollimore won Hastings and Rye at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 19,134 votes (41.6%), a majority of 8,653 over Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Hastings and Rye figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Official corrections
Records in which Helena Dollimore corrected an answer or the Commons record, or which the UK Statistics Authority addressed to Helena Dollimore:
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.