About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Vikki Slade) represents you, and all of the people who live in Mid Dorset and North Poole, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 2024 — General election

Social Media

• @vikkislademp.bsky.social
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Home Office
• Local Government: Elections
• Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
• Local Government Finance
• Pre-school Education
• Pre-school Education: Finance

Currently held offices

• Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (since 18 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee ( 4 Dec 2024 to 12 Dec 2024)
• Member, Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (16 Oct 2024 to 5 Nov 2024)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Michael Tomlinson
• Annette Brooke
• Christopher Fraser

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Renters’ Rights Bill Committee (1 out of 8)

Recent appearances

• Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Visit 29 Apr 2025

  Other hon. and right hon. Members have talked about what might be left in Palestine, but I will ask about who might be left. Some 20% of the 55,000 pregnant women there—that is 11,000 pregnant women—are so malnourished that their pregnancies are now high risk. That really undermines the future of Palestine’s population. What assurance can the Minister give us that the £101 million will...

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Housing: Sales 29 Apr 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) increasing protections for sellers in conveyancing processes, in the context of levels of protections in (i) Scotland and (ii) Australia where bids to buy houses are binding once accepted and (b) requiring sellers to provide a full legal pack.

• Written Answers — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Internal Drainage Boards: Finance 29 Apr 2025

  To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to announce the allocation by local authority of the £5 million Internal Drainage Board support grant for 2025/26.

More of Vikki Slade’s recent appearances

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