Blair McDougall MP: votes, interests and costs
Blair McDougall represents East Renfrewshire in the House of Commons for Labour. Current post: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) , held since 22 July 2026.
Offices and committees
Blair McDougall holds this post, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | 22 July 2026 | Current |
Earlier ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) | Department for Business and Trade | 7 September 2025 | 22 July 2026 |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 21 October 2024 | 27 October 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 d2bb752656ad.
Register of interests
Blair McDougall has 7 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 31 July 2024 and the latest on 16 June 2025. By category: Miscellaneous (7). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Membership of Advisory Board to Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-05-30
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member of board of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-06-03
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Appointment as a patron of Hong Kong Watch.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-03-10
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member of Eastwood Scouts District Council. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-01-27
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Member of the Executive Committee of the British Group of the Interparliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-01-28
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Unpaid Director of Uyghur Campaign Ltd.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Chair of Stop Uyghur Genocide Charity. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
IPSA, the body that sets and pays MPs' business costs, records staffing spending of £122,869 for Blair McDougall in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. IPSA lists office spending of £25,725 in the same year. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £122,869.43 |
| Office costs: spent | £25,725.13 |
| Accommodation: spent | £18,208.38 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £18,844.33 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £560.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £31,549 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024, with an uplift to cover the cost of two dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: East Renfrewshire CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent part time), Caseworker (permanent part time), Research Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent full time), Intern (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records 453 votes by Blair McDougall in divisions since 4 July 2024. Of these, 39 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The latest 30 votes on bills and motions are below, from 13 July 2026 to 21 October 2026. On 21 October 2026 Blair McDougall voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 28 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
The Written Questions API lists 121 written questions from Blair McDougall since 4 July 2024. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Work and Pensions, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and 2 other departments.
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the availability of residential training places for disabled young people in Scotland on proposed changes to eligibility for Universal Credit for …
St Lucia: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many consular cases involving violent crime his Department has dealt with in St Lucia in each of the last five years.
British Nationals Abroad: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many consular cases involving violent crime against British tourists his Department has dealt with for customers of Tui Group.
X Corp: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will hold discussions with X.com on the potential impact of the output of its Grok AI on community safety.
Government Departments: X Corp
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to continue to use X.com as a platform for government communications.
Georgia: Civil Liberties
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of (a) prosecutions of opposition party leaders and (b) levels of repression of civil …
Immigration: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of extending the settlement qualifying period from five to ten years on the community integration of British National (Overseas) visa ho …
Import Controls: Xinjiang
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause 6(a) of the UK-USA Economic and Prosperity Deal, published on 8 May 2025, whether she plans to direct Border Force to search direct cargo flights from Xinjiang to the UK to en …
Government Departments: Procurement
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to clause 6(a) of the UK-USA Economic and Prosperity Deal, published on 8 May 2025, if he will make it his policy to bar Chinese companies with links to forced labour in Xinjiang from Government p …
Antisemitism
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to protect Jewish communities from terrorist attacks.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 753a16b212a9. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Blair McDougall.
2024 general election
Blair McDougall won East Renfrewshire at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 21,935 votes (43.7%), a majority of 8,421 over Kirsten Oswald (Scottish National Party). Result as published: Lab gain from SNP.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · East Renfrewshire figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.