Dame Caroline Dinenage
- Constituency
- Gosport
- Region
- England
- Member since
- 6 May 2010
This parliament
- Voting participation
- 60%
- Debates contributed to
- 192
- Registered interests
- 14
- Declared value
- £36,346
Record last updated 7 Nov 2026
Dame Caroline Dinenage, Conservative MP for Gosport, is the longest serving 10% of MPs overall and the longest serving 25% of Conservative MPs, having been first elected in May 2010. She cast 377 votes out of 630 eligible divisions for a participation rate of 60%, placing her in the bottom 25% of MPs by voting participation. She contributed 294 times across 192 debates in which she participated, with her top debate topics being Other/Procedural, Trade & Industry, and Digital & AI, while her top voting topics were Parliamentary Procedure, Employment & Workers Rights, and Justice & Law.
Summary generated on 06/11/2026 (View details)
VOTING PARTICIPATION
377 / 630
59.84%
Ranked #513 of 655 MPs (22th percentile)
DEBATE CONTRIBUTIONS
192 / 12881
294 total contributions
Ranked #217 of 655 MPs (67th percentile)
REGISTERED INTERESTS
14
£36,346.44
Ranked #208 of 655 MPs (68th percentile)
PARLIAMENTARY RECORD
Dame Caroline Dinenage is the Conservative MP for Gosport, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010.
Constituencies
- Gosport May 2010 – present · 5 terms
Posts held
- Minister of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) Feb 2020 – Sep 2021
- Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care) Jan 2018 – Feb 2020
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) Jun 2017 – Jan 2018
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) Jul 2016 – Jun 2017
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) May 2015 – Jul 2016
- Minister for Equalities (Department for Education) May 2015 – Jul 2016