Labour Party MP for Chipping Barnet.
Chipping Barnet's Dan Tomlinson is now Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury — a junior ministerial appointment made in September 2025 — but his sharpest parliamentary moments have come on assisted dying. He voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at Second Reading, Third Reading, and backed tightening amendments at Report Stage, placing him among the bill's consistent opponents and well outside his party's majority position: Labour MPs backed the bill by around 58% on assisted dying votes, while Tomlinson was at 0%.
At 62% voting participation he sits below the Commons average, though a ministerial role typically reduces floor-vote attendance. His 98.6% party-line rate makes him a reliable loyalist on almost everything else — fiscal policy, progressive taxation, workers' rights, and housing. His speeches cluster around fiscal policy and economic growth, fitting his Treasury brief. On stances, he leans notably further toward immigration control and criminal justice reform than his Labour peers, and recent local coverage — which has run heavily on crime across 16 articles in the past 90 days — suggests constituents are raising public safety concerns regularly.
His Public Accounts Committee membership keeps him close to government spending scrutiny, and local reporting paints a picture of active constituency work: securing police officers for Barnet, retaining a local Post Office, and launching a community action network, CB:CAN, which drew over 200 people. His personal history of housing insecurity has been widely noted in connection with his pre-ministerial housing advocacy. Parliamentary speech data runs to July 2026; news sentiment data covers the same period.
Dan Tomlinson is the Labour MP for Chipping Barnet, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. He currently holds the Government post of Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury).
Top eight by total divisions voted, this parliament. Volume measures engagement, not direction — see Notable Votes for free-vote moments and rebellions.
Source · The Public Whip · Hansard
Moments where the whip was free, or where Tomlinson broke ranks. Free votes are the truer signal of personal stance.
| Date | Bill / motion | Vote | Whip |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading | No | Freevs party |
| 13 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 | Yes | Freevs party |
| 13 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 | Yes | Freevs party |
Source · Hansard
“The Bill delivers targeted relief to households and businesses hit by Middle East conflict-driven energy and fuel costs; the levy rise is justified as capturing exceptional generat…”
“Closed for the Government, defended the measures as proportionate and targeted, confirmed a year-end consultation on the levy, resisted a sunset clause on the basis that the levy's…”
“Defended all three measures as targeted support for households and businesses affected by the Iran conflict, emphasising the largest-ever mileage rate increase and £600 HGV savings…”
“The government's temporary VAT reduction benefits all four nations equally; deeper cuts carry significant fiscal costs and consistency across the UK is essential.”
Select, joint and other committees Tomlinson currently sits on. Committee work is where much of the line-by-line scrutiny of bills and departments happens, away from the chamber.
| Committee | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Public Accounts Committee | Member | Select |
Source · UK Parliament Committees API
Committee seats are where backbenchers shape legislation and hold departments to account. Tomlinson sits on one.
| Department | Qs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Health and Social Care | 9 | 23.7% |
| Department for Education | 8 | 21.1% |
| Home Office | 4 | 10.5% |
| Department for Business and Trade | 3 | 7.9% |
| Department for Transport | 3 | 7.9% |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 3 | 7.9% |
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport | 2 | 5.3% |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 2 | 5.3% |
What steps he plans to take to help (a) improve pay and conditions for frontline social care workers and (b) ensure that social care policy adequately addresses the requirements of people with severe disabilities.
We are introducing the first ever Fair Pay Agreement to the adult social care sector so that care professionals are recognised and rewarded for the important work that they do. Fair Pay Agreements will empower worker representatives, employ…read full →
What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the introduction of the severity modifier by NICE in 2022 on the provision of life-extending treatment to those with incurable secondary breast cancer.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been monitoring the impact of the severity modifier since it was implemented in 2022. Data up to March 2025 shows that the proportion of positive cancer recommendations is hig…read full →
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the absence of legal requirement for local authorities to provide free transport for young people with SEND beyond the age of 16 on (a) parental employment and (b) the future employment prospects of those children.
This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.Local authorities are responsib…read full →
When he plans to restore Official Development Assistance to 0.7 percent of gross national income in the context of the Spending Review.
To enable the government to invest more in security and defence, while remaining committed to our fiscal rules, the Prime Minister has taken the difficult decision to reduce Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the equivalent of 0.3% of…read full →
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Source · Members API · Last amended 10 Mar 2026
| Category | £ | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Staffing | 194,572 | 86.3% |
| Office Costs | 30,832 | 13.7% |
| MP Travel | 41 | 0.0% |
| Total · 131 claims | 225,444 | 100% |
Source · IPSA · FY 24_25
Nothing tabled for Tomlinson on the published Order Paper this week.
| Year | Constituency | Votes | Share | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Chipping Barnet | 21,585 | 42.4% | Won |
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan TomlinsonWON | Lab | 21,585 | 42.4 |
Showing the MP’s own row only. Full result table: see Chipping Barnet →