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Joe Powell

Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater, since 4 July 2024

Joe Powell is the Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Scorecard

75.1% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
432 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
143 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
6 Interests declared 3 at £5,000 or more
133 Debates spoken in 27 written questions tabled

Ranked 268 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
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 32 Aye 268–78
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 255–128
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Government amendment (a) to Lords Amendment 2 Aye 264–125
13 Nov 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 Aye 254–135
12 Nov 2025 Opposition Day: Energy: original words stand part No vote 97–336
12 Nov 2025 Opposition Day: Taxes No vote 101–316
5 Nov 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 43 Aye 268–80
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government amendment (a) in lieu of LA62 Aye 311–152
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion relating to Lords Reason 72B Aye 312–151
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 48B Aye 310–150
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion relating to Lords Reason 120B Aye 308–153
5 Nov 2025 Employment Rights Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1B Aye 310–155
4 Nov 2025 Opposition day: Welfare spending No 92–403
4 Nov 2025 Opposition day: Supporting high streets No 106–321
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill: Third Reading Aye 321–103
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 20 No 182–311
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 No 173–323
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 12 No 82–314
29 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 170–328
29 Oct 2025 European Convention on Human Rights (withdrawal): Ten Minute Rule Motion No vote 96–154
28 Oct 2025 Opposition Day: China spying case No 174–327
28 Oct 2025 Opposition Day: Stamp Duty Land Tax No 103–329
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: Amendment 5 No 153–332
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 12 No 166–322
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 No 165–323

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. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation

£27,000

Name of donor: David Sainsbury
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: for the services of a Campaign Organiser hired by Labour Party, value £27,000
Donor status: individual
(Registered 7 July 2026)

On the register since 14 Jul 2026

£26,827

Name of donor: David Sainsbury
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £26,827.06 for the services of a Campaign Organiser hired by Labour Party
Donor status: individual
(Registered 4 December 2025)

On the register since 16 Dec 2025

£22,013

Name of donor: David Sainsbury
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £22,013.49 for the services of a Campaign Organiser hired by Labour Party
Donor status: individual
(Registered 1 August 2025)

On the register since 5 Aug 2025

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: SXSW London Limited
Address of donor: SXSW London, Second Floor, 67-71 Shoreditch High Street, London, England, E1 6JJ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: A Platinum Pass to the SXSW Festival London by SXSW London. I gave this to a staff member because I attended the event as a speaker. The staff member was unable to attend, value £1,300
Date received: 2 June 2025
Date accepted: 2 June 2025
Donor status: company, registration 16034054
(Registered 2 July 2025)

On the register since 12 Feb 2026

6. Land and property portfolio with a value over £100,000 and where indicated, the portfolio provides a rental income of over £10,000 a year

Type of land/property: Residential property (Flat)
Number of properties: 1
Location: London
(Registered 30 July 2024; updated 5 December 2024)

On the register since 2 Dec 2025

8. Miscellaneous

Trustee of EDUCATE, a registered charity supporting education projects in Western Uganda. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 31 July 2024)

On the register since 16 Aug 2024

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

3 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £30,000 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
10 Apr 2025 Joe Powell sitting MP Betterworld Limited Company Cash £12k
20 Jan 2025 Joe Powell sitting MP Don Cruickshank Individual Cash £5,000
28 Oct 2024 Joe Powell sitting MP Betterworld Limited Company Cash £12k

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 →

Machine-readable: JSON for this MP.

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