Jas Athwal MP: votes, interests and costs
Jas Athwal represents Ilford South in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no government or opposition post and no select committee membership for Jas Athwal (read 15 October 2026).
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Jas Athwal, as the MP registered them: Land and property (within or outside the UK) (3), Miscellaneous (1). Latest registration 24 July 2024. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Property in London
- Location of the land or property: London
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Co-owned with family member
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 3
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Commercial
Property in Bedfordshire
- Location of the land or property: Bedfordshire
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Co-owned with a family member
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 1
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Property in London
- Location of the land or property: London
- Details about the ownership arrangements: Co-owned with family member
- The number of properties this interest relates to: 15
- Country in which the land or property is located: United Kingdom
- The type of property: Residential
Leader of Council and Councillor in Redbridge Council. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 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 £140,844 for Jas Athwal in 2024-25 against a budget of £198,653. Office costs came to £23,656 of a £33,037 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 | £140,843.60 |
| Office costs: spent | £23,655.89 |
| Accommodation: spent | £0.00 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £47.20 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £33,037, staffing £198,653, accommodation £0 (Standard London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard London area budget from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Ilford South BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Senior Casework Team Leader/Manager (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Jas Athwal voted in the House of Commons: 521 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 47 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 23 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Jas Athwal has tabled 208 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Department for Education; Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade .
Refrigeration: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the (a) closure and (b) lack of capacity of producer compliance schemes for fridges and freezers on local authorities …
Refrigeration: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of requiring produce compliance schemes for fridges and freezers that lack sufficient processing capacity to identify an …
Refrigeration: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure producer compliance schemes for fridges and freezers are able to operate effectively, given the reduction in the number of processing …
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with colleagues in the Treasury on the potential impact of reducing food waste on the cost of living.
Food: Waste
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of requiring large businesses to publicly report food waste.
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the Mockingbird Programme.
Foster Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what further steps her Department has taken to evaluate the Mockingbird fostering model since the 2020 evaluation by her Department.
Carers: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on bringing new carers into the sector and stopping carers exiting the sector.
Foster Care: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve standards across the foster care sector.
Kinship Care: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of leave entitlement for kinship carers.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 3a063a6427e7. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Jas Athwal.
2024 general election
Jas Athwal won Ilford South at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 16,537 votes (40.2%), a majority of 6,894 over Noor Begum (Independent). Result as published: Lab hold.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Ilford South 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.