Official portrait of Alan Gemmell

Alan Gemmell

Labour MP for Central Ayrshire, since 4 July 2024

Alan Gemmell is the Labour MP for Central Ayrshire, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

80.3% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
462 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
113 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
0 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
10 Interests declared none at £5,000 or more
66 Debates spoken in 14 written questions tabled

Ranked 170 of 638 MPs for attendance. The median of MPs who vote is 72.3%. 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

575 divisions since they took their seat, newest first.

DateQuestionTheir voteResult
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Hospitality sector No vote 158–334
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Property taxes No vote 98–335
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Second Reading No vote 365–164
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Reasoned Amendment No vote 167–367
16 Jul 2025 Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 737) deferred division Aye 333–54
16 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 deferred division Aye 334–54
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Tax No vote 165–342
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Welfare No 106–440
11 Jul 2025 Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Report: Amendment 1 No vote 0–47
11 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–58
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Third Reading Aye 336–242
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 38 No 149–334
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 No 130–443
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 45 No 175–401
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Clause 2, as amended, and Clause 3 stand part Aye 335–135
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 12 No 105–370
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 50 No 103–416
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39 No 35–469
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL]: Third Reading Aye 415–98
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: Amendment 18 No 178–338
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 3 No 86–340
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 167–346
4 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–33
2 Jul 2025 Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 Aye 385–26
2 Jul 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to insist on 2A and disagree with LA2B and LA2C Aye 321–158

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.

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Global Media & Entertainment Limited
Address of donor: 30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets for the Capital Jingle Bell Ball, value £500
Date received: 7 December 2025
Date accepted: 7 December 2025
Donor status: company, registration 06251684
(Registered 18 December 2025)

On the register since 6 Jan 2026

Name of donor: Diageo PLC
Address of donor: 16 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to the Last Night of the Proms, value £320
Date received: 13 September 2025
Date accepted: 13 September 2025
Donor status: company, registration 00023307
(Registered 18 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

Name of donor: Great Britain China Centre
Address of donor: Kings Buildings, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Costs of a residential course attended by a member of my staff, value £1,350
Date received: 22 July 2025
Date accepted: 22 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 01196043
(Registered 22 August 2025)

On the register since 2 Sep 2025

Name of donor: Global Media & Entertainment Limited
Address of donor: 30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets for the Capital Summertime Ball, value £500
Date received: 15 June 2025
Date accepted: 15 June 2025
Donor status: company, registration 06251684
(Registered 9 July 2025)

On the register since 15 Jul 2025

4. Visits outside the UK

Name of donor: Syria Britain Business Council
Address of donor: China Works, Black Prince Road SE1 7SJ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights (£1481.79), accommodation (£708.48) and travel insurance (£12.00), value £2,202.27
Destination of visit: Syria
Dates of visit: 29 June 2026 to 2 July 2026
Purpose of visit: Attendance at the first conference of the Syria Britain Business Council in Damascus.
(Registered 7 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

Name of donor: Great Britain China Centre
Address of donor: Kings Building, 16 Smith Square, London SW1P 3HQ
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Hotel, flight, food and transport, value £4,763
Destination of visit: China
Dates of visit: 24 May 2026 to 29 May 2026
Purpose of visit: To attend the 14th Senior Leadership Forum with the Great Britain China Centre.
(Registered 15 June 2026)

On the register since 16 Jun 2026

Name of donor: The Eleanor Crook Foundation
Address of donor: 1049 30th Street North West, Washington, DC 20007, US
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): International flight (£1278.30), internal flight (£80.00), local transport (£373.33), accommodation (£420.00), travel insurance (£36.70), and subsistence (£150.00), value £2,338.33
Destination of visit: Angola
Dates of visit: 15 February 2026 to 20 March 2026
Purpose of visit: To see the land-mine clearance work of the Halo Trust in Angola and meet representatives of national and federal governments.
(Registered 16 April 2026)

On the register since 29 Apr 2026

Name of donor: Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust
Address of donor: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): £632.32 flights £632.32
Destination of visit: Bahrain
Dates of visit: 2 May 2025 to 5 May 2025
Purpose of visit: Visit for parliamentarians as part of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme and arranged by the scheme.
(Registered 22 October 2025)

On the register since 4 Nov 2025

7. (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital

Name of company or organisation: 30th State Productions Limited
Nature of business: It has rights to a book I have written and am publishing.
Held jointly with or on behalf of: Spouse
(Registered 1 August 2024)

On the register since 16 Aug 2024

8. Miscellaneous

Director, 30th State Productions Limited
(Registered 1 August 2024)

On the register since 16 Aug 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

4 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £13,975 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
24 May 2026 Alan Gemmell sitting MP Great Britain China Centre Other Visit £4,763
15 Feb 2026 Alan Gemmell sitting MP The Eleanor Crook Foundation Other Visit £2,338
5 Jan 2025 Alan Gemmell sitting MP Great Britain China Centre Other Visit £3,887
20 Nov 2024 Alan Gemmell sitting MP Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Unincorporated Association Visit £2,987

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 3 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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