Harpreet Uppal MP: votes, interests and costs
Harpreet Uppal represents Huddersfield in the House of Commons for Labour. The Members API lists the post of Assistant Whip from 22 July 2026.
Offices and committees
Harpreet Uppal holds this post, according to the Parliament Members API.
Ministerial and shadow posts
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Whip | Whips Office (Commons) | 22 July 2026 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill | 15 September 2025 | 28 October 2025 |
| Renters’ Rights Bill | 16 October 2024 | 5 November 2024 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 fd290a98922e.
Register of interests
Harpreet Uppal has 2 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, the earliest registered on 19 May 2026 and the latest on 20 July 2026. By category: Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (2). Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
John Perry - £1,794.50
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: train tickets covering trips to Westminster, for participants of my week long summer school for 18-24 year olds.
- Value of the benefit: £1,794.50
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-07-07
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-07-07
- Name of the donor: John Perry
- Status of the donor: Individual
Kirith Entwistle MP - £2,063.39
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: Monetary
- Description of the payment: (This represents 50% of a joint fundraising event which was organised by the Labour Asians Society Ltd)
- Value of the benefit: £2,063.39
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-04-21
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-04-21
- Name of the donor: Kirith Entwistle MP
- Status of the donor: Individual
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 29 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 £94,520 for Harpreet Uppal in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £22,570 of a £30,426 budget. 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 | £94,520.44 |
| Office costs: spent | £22,570.21 |
| Accommodation: spent | £16,412.00 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £3,533.85 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (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).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Huddersfield BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Administrative Officer (permanent part time), Office Manager (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Caseworker (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Harpreet Uppal voted in the House of Commons: 557 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 56 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. The most recent, on 21 October 2026, was a No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 26 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 87 written questions from Harpreet Uppal since 4 July 2024. Departments in the latest 10: Department of Health and Social Care; Department for Work and Pensions; Women and Equalities; Department for Education; and others.
Health: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of regional allocation of health research funding; and what steps he is taking to address differences in funding per head.
Health: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce guidance for public health research funders to ensure a geographical distribution of funding.
Earned Income and Employment: Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department identifies employment, earnings and occupational outcomes for Sikhs as a distinct group.
Government Departments: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many Government departments have made representations on the absence of Sikh ethnicity data in policy development and service delivery.
Sikhs: Databases
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the visibility of Sikhs across Government data collection systems.
Pupils: Sikhs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department identifies educational attainment outcomes for Sikhs as a distinct group.
Sikhs: Disadvantaged
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what evidence her Department uses to assess socioeconomic inequalities impacting Sikhs where Sikh-specific ethnicity data is unavailable.
Extracurricular Activities: Huddersfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase access to enrichment activities in Huddersfield.
Pregnancy: Temperature
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) UKHSA has made of the potential risks of exposure to high ambient temperatures during pregnancy including (i) stillbirth, (ii) preterm birth and (iii) mat …
Hospices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct NHS England to notify each children’s hospice of the amount of NHS funding they will receive over the next three years.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 871c419dfed8. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Harpreet Uppal.
2024 general election
The House of Commons Library records a majority of 4,533 for Harpreet Uppal in Huddersfield in July 2024, from 15,101 votes on a turnout of 51.6%. Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Huddersfield 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.