Romsey & Southampton North

One of the most striking facts about Caroline Nokes is the near-total collapse of her parliamentary voting record: she has participated in just 1 of 484 votes since the 2024 general election -- a 0% participation rate that places her among the least active voters in the current Commons. That single vote, in July 2024, backed a Conservative amendment to the King's Speech criticising the new Labour government's legislative programme. Her local press coverage tells a different story of activity, however -- she has been publicly challenging rising business rates hitting hospitality firms in her constituency, raising child safety and rare disease treatment concerns with ministers, and securing an Urgent Question in the Commons on unresolved constituent cases.

Her 1,586 speech contributions across 480 debates, with the last recorded in April 2026, suggest she remains verbally active in parliament even while almost entirely absent from division lobbies. Her most frequent speech topics are economy and jobs, defence, local government, and social care. She does not deviate from Conservative Party positions in her voting, though this is hard to interpret meaningfully given she has cast only one vote. Her former role as Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee informs her continued advocacy on issues such as the impact of menopause on women's careers.