Official portrait of Shabana Mahmood

Shabana Mahmood

Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, since 6 May 2010

Home Secretary

The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood is the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. She currently holds the Government post of Home Secretary.

Scorecard

25.8% Attendance In the least-present tenth of MPs who vote
152 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
438 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
14 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
2 Interests declared 1 at £5,000 or more
283 Debates spoken in 621 written questions tabled

Ranked 632 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.4%. Ministers and front-benchers vote less often than backbenchers for reasons of office rather than absenteeism, and Parliament does not publish reasons for any absence — the ranking is a starting point for a question, not an answer to one.

Voting record

590 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
11 Sep 2026 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading against party line No 270–286
11 Sep 2026 Closure motion against party line No 293–218
10 Sep 2026 Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No vote 77–292
9 Sep 2026 Draft Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 371–100
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 No vote 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 No vote 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 No vote 108–357
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 No vote 79–300
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No vote 170–316
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 No vote 77–317
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–79
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading No vote 411–102
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88 No vote 85–427
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67 No vote 105–410
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 No vote 166–346
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division No vote 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division No vote 330–109
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No vote 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No vote 102–409
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No vote 93–323
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading Aye 264–90
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading No 97–358
8 Jul 2026 Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 283–182
8 Jul 2026 Draft Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment etc.) and the EU Machinery Regulation (Enforcement etc. in Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 369–102

Declared financial interests

Quoted in full from the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Entries where the largest figure is £5,000 or more are marked. A declaration is not a wrongdoing — the register exists precisely so that these things are visible.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: Manjit Jhooty
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,500 returned in full on 15 October 2025
Date received: 10 July 2025
Date accepted: 10 July 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 15 July 2025; updated 15 October 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

£50,000

Name of donor: Francesca Perrin
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £50,000
Date received: 2 October 2025
Date accepted: 2 October 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 3 October 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

283 debates contributed to in total. The ten most recent:

Money declared to them

5 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £60,000 in total — from the Electoral Commission's register, which is a separate register from the one above. Money given to their party is not counted here; this is money declared to them.

AcceptedRecipientDonorTypeValue
2 Oct 2025 Shabana Mahmood MP sitting MP Francesca Perrin Individual Cash £50k
8 Aug 2025 Shabana Mahmood MP sitting MP Global Foods (Birmingham) Limited Company Cash £2,500
17 Jul 2025 Shabana Mahmood MP sitting MP Andeep Mangal Individual Cash £2,500
10 Jul 2025 Shabana Mahmood MP sitting MP Manjit Jhooty Individual Cash £2,500
10 Jul 2025 Shabana Mahmood MP sitting MP Manjit Jhooty Individual Cash £2,500

Where the public money goes — contracts and donations →


Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence; donations from the Electoral Commission's register. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 1 Oct 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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