Stroud · Member 5030
Dr Simon Opher
Official record: members.parliament.uk.
IPSA basic MP salary
£98,599
Effective 1 Apr 2026
RMFI entries
14
Register 820
EC donations matched
1
Fuzzy name match — not RMFI
Member since
4 Jul 2024
Contact
Published on the Members API contact endpoint. Missing email, phone or street address is shown as unavailable — Watchtower does not invent contact details. Almost every sitting MP lists the House of Commons; a constituency street address is often omitted.
Addresses
Website and social
Official record: members.parliament.uk contact page · Methodology.
Source: UK Parliament Members API (contact). As of 14 Sept 2026.
Salary
IPSA basic MP salary
£98,599
Annual · effective 1 Apr 2026
Source: Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) — MPs’ pay & pensions. As of 1 Apr 2026.
Additional office salary
Not assigned
Ministers, opposition office-holders and select committee chairs may receive a further official salary. This snapshot does not reliably join those posts to named members, so we do not add a guessed uplift.
How the rate is documented: Parliament methodology.
Councils overlapping this seat
English local authorities whose GE 2024 overlapping constituencies include Stroud, joined on constituency name (ONS PCON codes are carried on the council side only).
County council · E10000013 · seat Stroud (E14001529)
Liberal DemocratsMatched on constituency name
Source: House of Commons Library GE 2024 + ONS constituency–authority lookup (via council snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Members API (committed snapshot). As of 13 Sept 2026.
Money trail
Register of Members’ Financial Interests
Full register on this page14
published entries · register 820 · as of 7 Sept 2026
- Miscellaneous4
- Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP3
- Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments3
- Visits outside the UK2
- Employment and earnings1
- Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
Explain this numberRegister of Members’ Financial Interests
Entries the MP has declared in the latest published Commons RMFI. It is a self-declared parliamentary register of interests and gifts above thresholds — not a full income statement.
- Not all income appears here; thresholds and categories apply.
- Electoral Commission donations are a different legal register and are shown separately on the MP page.
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Electoral Commission donations
Matched rows below1
PEF rows fuzzy-matched to this MP · as of 13 Sept 2026
£2,950 · Visit from Imperial College London
Accepted 12 Apr 2026 · match high (1) · V0837366
Explain this numberElectoral Commission donations
Regulated donations to this MP as a donee under political finance law (PEF), fuzzy-matched by name from the Electoral Commission register for the current-Parliament window in this snapshot.
- Not the Commons Register of Members’ Financial Interests — a separate legal register.
- Match confidence is labelled. Low-confidence rows are shown so you can reject them; they are not identity proof.
- Amounts come only from the PEF CSV. We do not invent donation figures.
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026.
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..
Register of Members’ Financial Interests (deep dive)
Latest Commons register published 7 Sept 2026. This is the parliamentary register — not the Electoral Commission donations file. See How money registers work.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP
Unison - £3,000.00
£3,000 · Registered 28 Aug 2026 · Official entry
Unison - £4,500.00
£4,500 · Registered 28 Aug 2026 · Official entry
Labour Together Limited - £5,000.00
£5,000 · Registered 28 Aug 2026 · Official entry
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
SXSW London - £1,560.00
£1,560 · Registered 3 Jun 2026 · Official entry
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments
Payment expected for services on 11 June 2026 - £900.00
£900 · Registered 17 Jun 2026 · Official entry
Payment received on 23 March 2026 - £1,550.00
£1,550 · Registered 23 Mar 2026 · Official entry
Payment received on 16 October 2025 - £1,500.00
£1,500 · Registered 17 Oct 2025 · Official entry
Miscellaneous
Political Patron for CRAFT (the new body for the UK comedy industry). This is an unpaid role.
Registered 6 Mar 2026 · Official entry
Vice President of Cotswold Canal Trust. This is an unpaid role.
Registered 2 Dec 2025 · Official entry
Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role.
Registered 22 Jul 2025 · Official entry
Director of Prema Arts Centre, Uley. This is an unpaid role.
Registered 17 Jul 2024 · Official entry
Visits outside the UK
International visit to Brazil between 13 April 2026 and 19 April 2026
Registered 20 Apr 2026 · Official entry
International visit to Palestine between 14 September 2025 and 16 September 2025
Registered 18 Sept 2025 · Official entry
Employment and earnings
Locum Doctor - NHS
Registered 17 Jul 2024 · Official entry
Source: UK Parliament Interests API (Registers + Interests CSV). As of 7 Sept 2026.
Electoral Commission donations (separate from RMFI)
PEF donations to regulated donees, fuzzy-matched on name to this sitting MP. Confidence is labelled. A low-confidence row is not a confirmed identity. This is not a copy of category 2 of the Commons register.
£2,950 · Visit from Imperial College London
Accepted 12 Apr 2026 · match high (1) to “Dr Simon Opher” · V0837366
Search the Electoral Commission register directly
Source: Electoral Commission PEF donations register. As of 13 Sept 2026 · Regulated donees (et=rd), donee type 'MP - Member of Parliament', accepted on/after 2024-07-04. Newest 80 API pages..