Josh Dean MP: votes, interests and costs
Josh Dean (Labour) is the MP for Hertford and Stortford, elected on 4 July 2024.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no current government, opposition or committee post for Josh Dean; earlier posts are below.
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Bill [HL] | 9 June 2025 | 24 June 2025 |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 5 March 2025 | 20 March 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c165021c7688.
Register of interests
Josh Dean has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 8 July 2025 and the latest on 13 August 2025. By category: Land and property (within or 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.
Property in East Hertfordshire
- Date on which the land or property was acquired, or achieved registrable value: 2025-07-18
- Location of the land or property: East Hertfordshire
- A description of the property: Flat
- Date on which the property began generating rental income: 2025-07-18
- 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
Trustee of Future Living, a domestic abuse charity based in Hertford. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-06-11
- 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)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Josh Dean's 2024-25 staffing spend as £136,805 (budget £198,653). IPSA lists office spending of £32,191 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 | £136,804.82 |
| Office costs: spent | £32,190.65 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £400.50 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,037, staffing £198,653, accommodation £0 (Standard London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard London area budget from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Hertford and Stortford CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (fixed term full time), Caseworker (fixed term part time), Office Manager (fixed term full time), Senior Communications Advisor (fixed term full time), Senior Caseworker (casual), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (fixed term full time), Caseworker (fixed term full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Josh Dean voted in the House of Commons: 575 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 51 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 Josh Dean voted No 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, 17 written questions have been tabled by Josh Dean, the parliamentary record shows. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and 1 other departments.
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the new initial teacher training and early career framework includes content related to (a) identifying children’s social and emotional developmental needs and (b) suppor …
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage and incentivise mainstream schools to use data-driven assessment tools to identify children’s hidden social, emotional, and mental health needs before they escal …
Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ofsted or another regulatory body will be mandated to track the destination outcomes of children placed in school inclusion bases.
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to help ensure that the proposed school inclusion bases are designed as integrated, short-term bridges back to mainstream education rather than pathways toward permanent exclusion.
Employment: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support individuals over 50 back into employment.
Employment Schemes: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support people over the age of 50 out of work to return to work.
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to increase revenue funding for youth services.
Youth Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to introduce new duties on councils to deliver youth services.
Young People: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she had with Cabinet colleagues on the implementation of the National Youth Strategy.
Visas: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed retrospective changes to settlement requirements for European Communities Association Agreement visa holders on levels of migration …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d8712be0d0b7. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Josh Dean.
2024 general election
The House of Commons Library records a majority of 4,748 for Josh Dean in Hertford and Stortford in July 2024, from 20,808 votes on a turnout of 68.4%. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Hertford and Stortford 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.