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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

73.2% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
421 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
154 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
12 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
8 Interests declared 4 at £5,000 or more
87 Debates spoken in 16 written questions tabled

Ranked 306 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
25 Mar 2025 Great British Energy Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 314–198
25 Mar 2025 Non Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 15 Aye 319–166
25 Mar 2025 Non Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 14 Aye 320–179
25 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 13 Aye 320–180
25 Mar 2025 Non Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 316–180
25 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 322–117
25 Mar 2025 Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 Aye 316–183
25 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 21B Aye 314–196
25 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 8B Aye 313–194
25 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5B Aye 311–192
25 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1B Aye 312–190
24 Mar 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Second Reading Aye 330–74
19 Mar 2025 Opposition Day: Winter Fuel Payment No vote 177–293
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill Motion to Disagree with Lords Amendment 21 No vote 316–187
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to Disagree with Lords Amendment 8 No vote 316–189
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4 No vote 313–190
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 3 No vote 314–187
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 2 No vote 310–183
19 Mar 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill: Motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 1 No vote 307–182
18 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Third Reading Aye 382–104
18 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: Amendment 210 No 167–324
18 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: Amendment 209 No 107–324
18 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: New Clause 34 No 77–315
18 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 No 77–313
17 Mar 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Report Stage: Amendment 171 No 65–317

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

87 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 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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