Official portrait of Kanishka Narayan

Kanishka Narayan

Labour MP for Vale of Glamorgan, since 4 July 2024

Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)

Kanishka Narayan is the Labour MP for Vale of Glamorgan, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. He currently holds the Government post of Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology).

Scorecard

76.9% Attendance Turns up more often than most MPs who vote
442 Votes cast out of 575 divisions
133 No vote recorded absent, abstaining, paired or unable to attend
5 Against their own party divisions where they voted the other way to most Labour MPs
3 Interests declared 2 at £5,000 or more
60 Debates spoken in 68 written questions tabled

Ranked 239 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
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 No 152–337
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 30 No vote 77–390
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 9 No vote 104–317
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: New Clause 6 No vote 167–313
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 24 No vote 182–307
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Clause 1, as amended, stand part No vote 389–102
21 Oct 2025 Sentencing Bill Committee: Amendment 46 No vote 105–381
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill: Third Reading Aye 320–171
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: New Clause 1 No 172–322
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Clause 2 stand part Aye 318–174
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 9 No 83–319
20 Oct 2025 Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee: Amendment 7 No 174–321
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Remaining Stages: Amendment 9 No 160–324
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 8 No 151–319
15 Oct 2025 Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 5 No 78–316
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 41 No 164–333
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage: Amendment 40 No 163–339
14 Oct 2025 Mental Health Bill Report Stage New Clause 26 No 78–327
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Second Reading Aye 340–77
16 Sep 2025 Sentencing Bill: Reasoned Amendment on Second Reading No 78–292
16 Sep 2025 Child poverty strategy (removal of two child limit): Ten Minute Rule Motion No vote 89–79
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 121 Aye 316–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 62 Aye 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 61 Aye 330–161
15 Sep 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 60 Aye 318–170

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

£10,000

Name of donor: Mundev Wouhra
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date received: 6 February 2026
Date accepted: 9 February 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 5 March 2026)

On the register since 10 Mar 2026

£10,000

Name of donor: Mundev Wouhra
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £10,000
Date received: 6 December 2025
Date accepted: 8 December 2025
Donor status: individual
(Registered 2 January 2026)

On the register since 6 Jan 2026

Name of donor: India Legal Services Limited
Address of donor: 134 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SA
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £4,000 returned in full on 6th September 2025
Date received: 11 July 2025
Date accepted: 11 July 2025
Donor status: company, registration 04868952
(Registered 8 August 2025; updated 21 September 2025)

On the register since 8 Oct 2025

The same register on parliament.uk →

Debates

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

Money declared to them

5 donations accepted personally since 4 Jul 2024, worth £31,150 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
9 Feb 2026 Kanishka Narayan sitting MP Mundev Wouhra Individual Cash £10k
8 Dec 2025 Kanishka Narayan sitting MP Mundev Wouhra Individual Cash £10k
11 Jul 2025 Kanishka Narayan sitting MP India Legal Services Limited Company Cash £4,000
11 Jul 2025 Kanishka Narayan sitting MP India Legal Services Limited Company Cash £4,000
17 Nov 2024 Kanishka Narayan sitting MP The Observer Research Foundation Other Visit £3,150

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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