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Helen Whately

Helen Whately MP

Conservative · Faversham and Mid Kent · ME9 0AU

Key facts

Party Conservative (Con)
ConstituencyFaversham and Mid Kent
First elected7 May 2015
ResultCon Hold
GenderF
Emailhelen.whately.mp@parliament.uk
Phone020 7219 6472
Websitehttp://www.helenwhately.org.uk/

Election results

Results for Faversham and Mid Kent at the most recent general election.

Helen Whately
Conservative 14816 31.8%
Mel Dawkins
Labour 13347 28.6%
Maxwell Harrison
Reform UK 9884 21.2%
Hannah Temple
Green Party 4218 9.1%
Hannah Perkin
Liberal Democrat 4158 8.9%
Lawrence Rustem
British Democratic Party 171 0.4%

Government posts

PostFromTo
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) 26 October 2022 5 July 2024
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury) 16 September 2021 7 July 2022
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) 13 February 2020 16 September 2021
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) 10 September 2019 13 February 2020

Opposition posts

PostFromTo
Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 5 November 2024 Present
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport 8 July 2024 5 November 2024

Committees

CommitteeFromTo
Health and Social Care Committee 25 October 2022 8 November 2022
Health and Social Care Committee 8 July 2015 3 May 2017
Draft Domestic Abuse Bill (Joint Committee) 27 February 2019 6 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee 30 November 2021 17 October 2022
Finance (No.2) Bill 8 December 2021 11 January 2022

Constituencies represented

ConstituencyFromTo
Faversham and Mid Kent Present
Faversham and Mid Kent Present

Party affiliations

PartyFromTo
Conservative 7 May 2015 Present