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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 Jun 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment (b) to New Clause 14 No 233–254
11 Jun 2025 Draft Contracts for Difference (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2025 deferred division Aye 350–176
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Third Reading Aye 306–174
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 114 No 78–309
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 85 No 107–314
10 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 22 No 73–312
10 Jun 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill: Motion to insist on disagreement to LA49 and make (a) to (e) in lieu Aye 304–189
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: Amendment 69 No 180–307
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: Amendment 15 No 73–323
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 43 No 167–334
9 Jun 2025 Planning and Infrastructure Bill Report Stage: New Clause 39 No 113–335
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]: Third Reading No vote 264–99
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 24 No vote 164–273
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: Amendment 16 No vote 100–339
4 Jun 2025 Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] Report Stage: New Clause 4 No vote 171–274
3 Jun 2025 Motion to Disagree with the Lords in their Amendment 49F (Data Use and Access Bill) Aye 317–185
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Government amendment (a) in lieu of Lords Amendments 2 and 3 Aye 329–101
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Aye 315–184
3 Jun 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Aye 319–180
22 May 2025 Data Use and Access Bill: motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 49D Aye 195–124
21 May 2025 Opposition Day: Immigration No 83–267
21 May 2025 Opposition Day: Business and the economy No 88–253
16 May 2025 Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Report Stage: Amendment (a) to New Clause 10 No 243–279
16 May 2025 Closure motion Aye 288–239
14 May 2025 Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 52 No vote 366–98

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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