Patrick Spencer MP: votes, interests and costs
Patrick Spencer (Conservative) is the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, elected on 4 July 2024. Current post: Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Education), held since 31 August 2026.
Offices and committees
Patrick Spencer holds these 2 posts, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Education) | Department for Education | 31 August 2026 | Current |
| Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons) | Whips Office (Commons) | 31 August 2026 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 5 March 2025 | 20 March 2025 |
| Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 15 January 2025 | 11 February 2025 |
| Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill | 4 December 2024 | 12 December 2024 |
| Education Committee | 21 October 2024 | 30 June 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c9c4eb764d27.
Register of interests
Patrick Spencer has 7 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 11 July 2024 and the latest on 22 July 2024. By category: Miscellaneous (3), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (2), Shareholdings (2). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Unpaid Director, Suffolk Ventures Limited.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Unpaid Director, Blue WV Limited.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Governor, Hollesley Waldringfield Partnership. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Property in Suffolk
- Location of the land or property: Suffolk
- A description of the property: House
- 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
Shares in Suffolk Ventures Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Suffolk Ventures Limited
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: The company was set up to manage the marketing and rental income associated with property in Suffolk.
Shares in IPGL
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (ii) Other shareholdings, valued at more than £70,000
- Name of the company or partnership: IPGL
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Investment holdings company
- Managed by trust or delegated management: Trust
Property in London
- Location of the land or property: London
- A description of the property: House
- 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
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority publishes Patrick Spencer's 2024-25 staffing spend as £129,333 (budget £185,538). IPSA lists office spending of £22,895 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 | £129,332.56 |
| Office costs: spent | £22,894.75 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £7,614.95 |
| 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: Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent part time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent part time), Constituency Assistant (permanent part time), Caseworker (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records 440 votes by Patrick Spencer in divisions since 4 July 2024. Of these, 37 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The latest 30 votes on bills and motions are below, from 13 July 2026 to 20 October 2026. On 20 October 2026 Patrick Spencer voted No on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 26 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Patrick Spencer has tabled 181 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Education, Home Office.
Schools: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential costs to schools and academy trusts of moving from existing Management Information System contracts to suppliers or products available through its propos …
Schools: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department’s proposed Management Information System procurement framework will require all schools within a multi-academy trust to procure Management Information System products through the same fra …
Schools: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools and academy trusts with existing Management Information System contracts will be required to move to the proposed framework when those contracts expire; and whether exemptions will be available …
Vocational Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government's proposed technical education pathways will require changes to the funding available for post-16 transport in rural areas such as Suffolk.
Special Educational Needs: Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of whether Suffolk will have sufficient specialist school places to meet the needs of pupils who are unable to have their needs met through the Government's proposed more inclusive …
Vocational Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of differing access to technical education pathways as a result of variations in local employer, school and further education capacity on pupils in different …
Vocational Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the availability of specialist facilities and equipment in secondary schools to deliver the proposed technical education pathways from September 2028.
Vocational Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed technical education pathways on the revised Progress 8 and Attainment 8 performance measures.
Crime Prevention: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve cooperation between police forces in tackling offences in rural areas affecting farms and agricultural businesses.
Vocational Education: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding she intends to make available for the recruitment and training of specialist staff required to deliver technical education pathways from September 2028.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 cb0cc2ad4e44. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Patrick Spencer.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Central Suffolk and North Ipswich returned Patrick Spencer with a majority of 4,290: 15,144 votes, 32.6% of those cast, against 10,854 for Kevin Craig. Result as published: Con hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Central Suffolk and North Ipswich figures
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