Olly Glover MP: votes, interests and costs
Olly Glover (Liberal Democrat) is the MP for Didcot and Wantage, elected on 4 July 2024. The Members API lists the post of Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) from 1 October 2025.
Offices and committees
Olly Glover holds this post, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Transport) | Opposition Department | 1 October 2025 | Current |
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill | 15 October 2026 | Current |
| Transport Committee | 28 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Railways Bill | 7 January 2026 | 10 February 2026 |
| Planning and Infrastructure Bill | 24 April 2025 | 22 May 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 e6c1c77e129e.
Register of interests
Olly Glover has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 1 August 2024 and the latest on 1 August 2024. By category: Miscellaneous (2). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Liberal Democrat town councillor in the town of Didcot. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest ended: 2025-03-06
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
I am a parish councillor in the parish of Milton. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2024-07-05
- Date on which the interest ended: 2025-11-14
- 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 Olly Glover's 2024-25 staffing spend as £139,648 (budget £185,538). Office costs came to £10,761 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 | £139,648.37 |
| Office costs: spent | £10,760.83 |
| Accommodation: spent | £517.11 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £3,097.98 |
| 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: Didcot and Wantage CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent part time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time), Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term part time), Senior Caseworker (fixed term full time), Intern (fixed term full time), Office Manager (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
Olly Glover is recorded voting in 413 divisions since 4 July 2024, according to the Commons Votes API. Of these, 32 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The 30 most recent on bills and motions are listed here. The most recent, on 21 October 2026, was an Aye 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 322 written questions from Olly Glover since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Ministry of Justice; Department for Transport; Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health and Social Care.
Trusts: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to review the legal status of letters of wishes in Disabled Person's Trusts, in the context of the increasing use of these structures for vulnerable beneficiaries under the Mental Capacity Act 20 …
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 3.1 of Great British Railways' document entitled Rolling Stock and Infrastructure Strategy, published in September 2026, what assessment she has made of the relative cost, on a whole l …
Delivery Services: Robots
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the level of risk of pavement delivery robots being (a) hijacked, (b) used to carry unlawful items or (c) used to obstruct emergency responders at incident scenes or p …
Delivery Services: Robots
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with (a) RNIB, (b) Guide Dogs, (c) Transport for All and (d) Living Streets on the potential impact of pavement delivery robots on disabled and older pedestrians; and whe …
Rolling Stock: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the a) cost of train orders, b) number of trainsets ordered and c) cost per trainset was over the last 10 years.
TransPennine Express
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how funding for the TransPennine Express will be allocated across maintenance and capital costs of trains.
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the emails of 18th May, 8th June, 24th June and 19th August on the Child Maintenance Service, case reference OG13220, from the hon. Member for Didcot and Wantage.
Cancer: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of international researchers working on clinical and cancer research in the UK.
Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan will include measures to increase NHS capacity to deliver non-commercial clinical trials.
Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to reduce the time taken to open cancer clinical trials in the NHS, and what assessment they have made of the potential impact of delays in opening cancer clinic …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c43aaf28b22f. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Olly Glover.
2024 general election
Olly Glover won Didcot and Wantage at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 21,793 votes (39.8%), a majority of 6,233 over David Johnston (Conservative). Result as published: LD gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Didcot and Wantage figures
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