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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).

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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
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Hospitality sector No 158–334
3 Sep 2025 Opposition day: Property taxes No 98–335
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Second Reading Aye 365–164
2 Sep 2025 English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill: Reasoned Amendment No 167–367
16 Jul 2025 Enterprise Act 2002 (Amendment of Section 58 Considerations) Order 2025 (SI, 2025, No. 737) deferred division Aye 333–54
16 Jul 2025 Draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025 deferred division Aye 334–54
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Tax No 165–342
15 Jul 2025 Opposition Day: Welfare No 106–440
11 Jul 2025 Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Report: Amendment 1 No vote 0–47
11 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No 1–58
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: Third Reading Aye 336–242
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 38 No 149–334
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: New Clause 8 No 130–443
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 45 No 175–401
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill Committee: Clause 2, as amended, and Clause 3 stand part Aye 335–135
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 12 No 105–370
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 50 No 103–416
9 Jul 2025 Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill Committee: Amendment 39 No 35–469
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL]: Third Reading Aye 415–98
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: Amendment 18 No 178–338
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 3 No 86–340
8 Jul 2025 Football Governance Bill [HL] Report Stage: New Clause 1 No 167–346
4 Jul 2025 Motion to sit in private No vote 1–33
2 Jul 2025 Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 Aye 385–26
2 Jul 2025 Armed Forces Commissioner Bill: Motion to insist on 2A and disagree with LA2B and LA2C Aye 321–158

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 →

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