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
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 22 No vote 74–323
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 11 No vote 104–391
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 No vote 164–311
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: New Clause 3 No 144–244
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 13 No 135–258
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 8 No 143–249
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill Committee: Amendment 3 No 85–317
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill: Allocation of Time motion No vote 233–94
16 Jun 2026 Draft Clean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 Aye 262–86
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 3 No 162–246
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 14 No 151–258
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 13 No 77–255
15 Jun 2026 Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival No vote 24–37
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill: Third Reading No vote 278–149
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 148 No vote 155–279
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 143 No vote 167–266
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 1 No vote 77–271
9 Jun 2026 Draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2026 No vote 356–86
9 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 No vote 157–287
9 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 12 No vote 94–297
9 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: Amendment 20 No vote 90–290
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 8 No vote 145–251
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 No vote 65–251
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: Amendment 12 No vote 81–266
3 Jun 2026 Draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2026 deferred division No vote 302–155

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:


Sources: Commons Votes API, Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests, all published by Parliament under the Open Parliament Licence. This member's register and debate record were last refreshed 3 Aug 2026. How every figure is worked out →

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