Nigel Farage MP: votes, interests and costs
Nigel Farage (Reform UK) is the MP for Clacton, in the seat since 13 August 2026.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no government or opposition post and no select committee membership for Nigel Farage (read 15 October 2026).
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Nigel Farage, as the MP registered them: Employment and earnings (8), Visits outside the UK (6), Miscellaneous (3), Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources (1), Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK (1), Shareholdings (1). Latest registration 20 April 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Shares in Stack BTC PLC that are wholly owned by Thorn in the Side Ltd.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2026-03-18
- The type of interest: Financial interest or material benefit
Shares in Stack BTC PLC that are wholly owned by Thorn in the Side Ltd.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2026-03-09
- The type of interest: Financial interest or material benefit
Avi Lasarow - £1,749.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: Three tickets to the boxing for myself, son and daughter in law as well as refreshments during the evening. Tickets (£416 pp), refreshments and food (£167 pp)
- Value of the benefit: £1,749.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-04-04
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-04-04
- Name of the donor: Avi Lasarow
- Status of the donor: Individual
International visit to United States between 06 March 2026 and 08 March 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Speaking engagement
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-03-06
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-03-08
International visit to Maldives between 19 February 2026 and 22 February 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Humanitarian aid mission
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-02-19
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-02-22
Speaking engagement - The Club for Growth
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Date the agreement started: 2026-03-06
- Date the agreement ended: 2026-03-08
- Name of the payer: The Club for Growth
- Payment received on 19 March 2026 - £16,400.00
- Payment expected for services on 07 March 2026 - £27,856.88
International visit to Switzerland between 21 January 2026 and 22 January 2026
- Purpose of the visit: Speaking engagement
- Date Member left the UK: 2026-01-21
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2026-01-22
International visit to United Arab Emirates between 06 December 2025 and 08 December 2025
- Purpose of the visit: To attend the F1 and for meetings
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-12-06
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-12-08
Helping a Hero - £5,000.00
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: A seat at the Helping a Hero gala dinner
- Value of the benefit: £5,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2025-11-07
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2025-11-07
- Name of the donor: Helping a Hero
- Status of the donor: Other
- Description of donor status, where this could not be covered by defined options: Non-profit organisation
International visit to United States between 06 November 2025 and 09 November 2025
- Purpose of the visit: Speaking engagement and charity event
- Date Member left the UK: 2025-11-06
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2025-11-09
Speaking engagement - Zebu Group Limited
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Date the agreement started: 2025-10-22
- Name of the payer: Zebu Group Limited
- Payment expected for services on 22 October 2025 - £20,000.00
Speaking engagement - Blockworks Inc
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Date the agreement started: 2025-10-13
- Name of the payer: Blockworks Inc
- Payment expected for services on 13 October 2025 - £30,000.00
Speaking engagement - Hillsdale College
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Name of the payer: Hillsdale College
- Payment received on 20 October 2025 - £11,349.29
Speaking engagement - BTC Inc
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Name of the payer: BTC Inc
- Payment received on 22 September 2025 - £7,410.00
Speaking engagement - Imperial Independent Media
- Type of work or service being provided: Speaking engagement
- Name of the payer: Imperial Independent Media
- Brief description of the payer's business: Global consulting firm
- Payment received on 19 May 2025 - £6,493.11
- Payment received on 10 June 2025 - £12,986.23
- Payment received on 08 May 2025 - £6,493.11
Commentator - News PTY
- Type of work or service being provided: Commentator
- Name of the payer: News PTY
- Payment received on 20 May 2026 - £14,052.64
- Payment expected for services on 13 November 2025 - £31,145.62
- Payment received on 24 February 2025 - £25,368.00
International visit to United States between 14 December 2024 and 17 December 2024
- Purpose of the visit: Personal meeting
- Date Member left the UK: 2024-12-14
- Date Member returned to the UK: 2024-12-17
Marked in the register as a rectified entry: This is a late entry to which the rectification procedure was applied on 20 January 2026. Paragraph 51 of the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code of Conduct refers.
Brand Ambassador - Direct Bullion
- Type of work or service being provided: Brand Ambassador
- Name of the payer: Direct Bullion
- Payment received on 29 May 2026 - £270,000.00
- Payment received on 31 October 2025 - £135,000.00
- Payment received on 06 January 2025 - £91,200.00
Co-founder and Chairman of Action on World Health LLP
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-05-13
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Shares in Farage Media Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Farage Media Limited
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 24 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Nigel Farage's 2024-25 staffing spend as £150,834 (budget £185,538). Office costs came to £11,715 of a £30,426 budget. 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 | £150,834.40 |
| Office costs: spent | £11,715.30 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £30.15 |
| 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: Clacton CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant ×2 (permanent full time), Office Manager (fixed term full time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent full time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Nigel Farage voted in the House of Commons: 195 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 37 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. The most recent, on 19 October 2026, was a No on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Programme Motion".
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 20 written questions from Nigel Farage since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Home Office; Department for Business and Trade; and others.
Local Government: Elections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with (a) local authority officers and (b) local authority elected representatives on the cancellation of the local elections in Essex, and if she wil …
Muslim Brotherhood: Sanctions
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure sanctions are taken against companies which have been sanctioned by other nations for links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslim Brotherhood
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to prescribe Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.
Visas: Overseas Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries have had visitor visas reinstated since 5 July 2024.
Public Houses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support pubs in (a) Clacton and (b) nationally.
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of illegal migrants crossing the English Channel who are not intercepted by Border Force.
Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on police protection provided to people other than Ministers and members of the Royal Family.
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national offenders are incarcerated in the United Kingdom as of 22 October 2024.
Radicalism: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to work with young people to help prevent radicalisation.
European Convention on Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 99431c73e000. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Nigel Farage.
2024 general election
The House of Commons Library records a majority of 8,405 for Nigel Farage in Clacton in July 2024, from 21,225 votes on a turnout of 58.7%. Result as published: RUK gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Clacton figures
Statements and pledges on this site
Statements
- Nigel Farage on small boat arrivals, PMQs 25 March 2026
Nigel Farage said: “But 70,000 people later, with 1,000 in the last week and too many young men who pose a threat to national security, is it not time to admit that “smash the gangs” has been a total, abject failure—alon…” This page repeats what Home Office reports.
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.