Official portrait of Joe Powell

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
2 Jul 2025 Draft Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2025 deferred division Aye 333–168
2 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 deferred division Aye 338–79
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Second Reading Aye 335–260
1 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill: Reasoned Amendment at Second Reading No 149–328
30 Jun 2025 Draft Marking of Retail Goods Regulations 2025 No vote 315–4
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third Reading Aye 314–291
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 94 Aye 274–224
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77 Aye 275–209
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 12 No 223–269
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 24 No 213–266
20 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 16 No 208–261
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill: Third Reading No vote 312–95
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 130 No vote 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 121 No vote 114–310
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 88 No vote 178–313
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43 No vote 147–305
18 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 7 No vote 102–390
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 106 No 117–379
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 Aye 379–137
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 160 No 89–428
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 19 No 189–328
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 175 No 184–336
17 Jun 2025 Crime and Policing Bill Report Stage: Amendment 174 No 194–335
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 2 No 259–216
13 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: New Clause 1 No 230–256

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 4 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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