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
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: Clause 62 stand part Aye 344–181
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No.2) Bill Committee: Clause 10 stand part Aye 324–180
12 Jan 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee: New Clause 12 No 167–350
7 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Rural communities No 105–332
7 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Jury trials No 182–290
17 Dec 2025 National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill: Second Reading Aye 312–165
16 Dec 2025 Finance (No. 2) Bill: Second Reading No vote 341–195
16 Dec 2025 Finance (No. 2) Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading (Opposition) No vote 118–340
15 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion to disagree with the Lords in their Amendment 120N to Commons Amendment 120G and their Amendments 120P to 120S to Commons Amendment 120H No vote 311–96
10 Dec 2025 Opposition day: Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer No 90–297
10 Dec 2025 Government Amendment to Opposition day debate on seasonal work Aye 320–98
10 Dec 2025 Opposition day: Seasonal work No 98–325
9 Dec 2025 Railways Bill: Second Reading No vote 329–173
9 Dec 2025 Railways Bill: Opposition Reasoned Amendment No vote 170–332
9 Dec 2025 UK-EU customs union (duty to negotiate): Ten Minute Rule Motion No vote 100–100
8 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion to insist on disagreement to LA62 but not to insist on Commons Amendment 62C and to propose Gov (a) in lieu of LA62 Aye 327–162
8 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion not to insist on Commons Amendment 72C but to disagree with LA72D to LA72H and to propose Gov (a) and (b) in lieu of LA72D to LA72H Aye 326–162
8 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion to insist on disagreement to Lords Amendment 48B but to propose Government amendment (a) and (b) in lieu of LA48B Aye 395–98
8 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion to insist on disagreement to LA23 and LA106 to LA120, not to insist on Commons Amendment 120C, 120D and 120E but to propose Gov (a) to (f) in lieu of LA23 and LA106 to LA120 Aye 300–96
8 Dec 2025 Employment Rights Bill: Government motion to insist on disagreement to Lords Amendment 1B but to propose Government amendments (a) and (b) in lieu of Lords Amendment 1B Aye 327–96
3 Dec 2025 Pension Schemes Bill: Amendment 15 No vote 154–303
3 Dec 2025 Pension Schemes Bill: Amendment 16 No vote 143–304
3 Dec 2025 Pension Schemes Bill: New Clause 26 No vote 77–298
3 Dec 2025 Pension Schemes Bill: New Clause 3 No vote 87–299
2 Dec 2025 Budget Resolution No. 64: Rates of alcohol duty Aye 357–174

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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