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Damian Hinds

Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP

Conservative · East Hampshire · GU32 1BW

Key facts

Party Conservative (Con)
ConstituencyEast Hampshire
First elected6 May 2010
ResultCon Hold
GenderM
Emaildamian.hinds.mp@parliament.uk
Phone020 7219 7057
Websitehttp://www.damianhinds.com/

Election results

Results for East Hampshire at the most recent general election.

Damian Hinds
Conservative 18509 37.0%
Dominic Martin
Liberal Democrat 17234 34.5%
Matthew Kellerman
Reform UK 6476 13.0%
Lucy Sims
Labour 4867 9.7%
Richard Knight
Green Party 2404 4.8%
Jim Makin
Hampshire Independents 364 0.7%
Sara Smith
Social Democratic Party 152 0.3%

Government posts

PostFromTo
Minister of State (Education) 13 November 2023 5 July 2024
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) 27 October 2022 13 November 2023
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) 13 August 2021 7 July 2022
Secretary of State for Education 8 January 2018 24 July 2019
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) 15 July 2016 8 January 2018
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) 8 May 2015 15 July 2016
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) 15 July 2014 30 March 2015

Opposition posts

PostFromTo
Shadow Secretary of State for Education 8 July 2024 4 November 2024

Committees

CommitteeFromTo
Education Committee 12 July 2010 5 November 2012
Culture, Media and Sport Committee 9 December 2024 Present
Culture, Media and Sport Committee 2 March 2020 19 October 2021
Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation 10 March 2020 19 October 2021
National Security Bill 29 June 2022 11 July 2022
Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill 1 February 2023 8 February 2023
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill 24 April 2024 1 May 2024
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 15 January 2025 11 February 2025
Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] 5 March 2025 20 March 2025
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill 4 June 2025 Present

Constituencies represented

ConstituencyFromTo
East Hampshire Present
East Hampshire Present

Party affiliations

PartyFromTo
Conservative 6 May 2010 Present