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Dr Zubir Ahmed

Labour MP for Glasgow South West, since 4 July 2024

Dr Zubir Ahmed is the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

73.7% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
435 Votes cast out of 590 divisions
155 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
8 Interests declared 4 at £5,000 or more
93 Debates spoken in 24 written questions tabled

Ranked 296 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 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 162–297
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 No 106–302
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 No 108–357
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 No 79–300
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 No 170–316
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 No 77–317
4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–79
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Third Reading Aye 411–102
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 88 No 85–427
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67 No 105–410
2 Sep 2026 Representation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65 No 166–346
15 Jul 2026 Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots deferred division Aye 330–109
15 Jul 2026 Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 deferred division Aye 330–109
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No 104–412
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 199 No 102–409
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 3 No 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 Aye 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 Aye 317–103
8 Jul 2026 Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 deferred division Aye 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.

1. Employment and earnings

£13,890

Payment: £13,890 Amount will be used to fund costs associated with continuing professional development and medical licensing with the remainder donated to charity.
Work or services: General vascular and transplant surgery
Received on: 26 February 2026. Hours: 196 hrs approximate number of hours worked primarily overnight weekends and Friday work This is for the purposes of maintaining my professional skills as well as delivering continuity of care to patients and providing teaching and sub-specialist clinical advice to NHS colleagues. Also performed to fulfil criteria to maintain a medical license.
(Registered 22 March 2026)

On the register since 8 Apr 2026

Remuneration: £2,065 a month Amount will be used to fund costs associated with continuing professional development and medical licensing with the remainder donated to charity.
From: 6 April 2026.
Hours: 28 hrs a month Approximate due to variable weekend emergency on call commitment
(Registered 22 March 2026)

On the register since 24 Mar 2026

Role, work or services: NHS surgeon
Until: 1 October 2025.
Payer: NHS golden jubilee, Agamemon street Clydebank
(Registered 4 August 2024; updated 17 October 2025)

On the register since 23 Mar 2026

£19,878

Payment: £19,878 Payment for work undertaken between July 2024 and July 2025 in general surgery at the Golden Jubilee Hospital and specialist transplant surgery at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, and provision of clinical governance support
Work or services: General and transplant surgery specialist services
Received on: 30 August 2025. Hours: 290 hrs Hours worked are an estimate and include on call provision and include emergency surgery provision provided at weekends and night.
(Registered 30 September 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

£17,920

Payment: £17,920 Payment for emergency vascular surgery provision in ninewells hospital during parliamentary recess to cover a short notice staff absence.
Work or services: Emergency vascular surgeon
Received on: 30 August 2025. Hours: 190 hrs No of hours worked is an estimate as it covers emergency on call availability, overnight emergency cover and time spent in hospital operating and performing other clinical duties and providing remote specialist clinical advice.
(Registered 30 September 2025)

On the register since 21 Oct 2025

Role, work or services: Emergency vascular surgeon
Payer: NHS Fife (NHS organisation), Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy KY2 5AH
(Registered 30 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

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

£30,000

Name of donor: Francesca Sainsbury Perrin
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £30,000
Date received: 23 February 2026
Date accepted: 25 February 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 22 March 2026)

On the register since 24 Mar 2026

8. Miscellaneous

Honorary surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
(Registered 4 August 2024)

On the register since 16 Aug 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

2 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £35,700 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
25 Feb 2026 Dr Zubir Ahmed sitting MP Francesca Sainsbury Perrin Individual Cash £30k
19 May 2025 Dr Zubir Ahmed sitting MP Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of… Other Visit £5,700

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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