Jess Asato MP: votes, interests and costs
Jess Asato represents Lowestoft in the House of Commons for Labour.
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Jess Asato as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Education Committee | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 567443395ceb.
Register of interests
The Register of Members' Financial Interests lists 4 entries for Jess Asato: Miscellaneous (3), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (1). The most recent was registered on 6 July 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Francesca Perrin - £25,000.00
- 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: For social media and media support
- Value of the benefit: £25,000.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-06-16
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-06-16
- Name of the donor: Francesca Perrin
- Status of the donor: Individual
I have a conditional fee arrangement with my lawyers, AWO (the trading name of HNK Litigation Limited) in relation to a forthcoming court case against xAI. The case relates to the ‘Grok’ AI platform operated by xAI. I have additional support from Reset Tech which is dependent on the outcome of the case.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2026-01-29
- The type of interest: Other
Appointed as a Director for The Social Market Foundation (SMF) which is widely recognised as Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. Its mission is to ensure that markets and government can work in partnership to serve the interests of society. The SMF pursues this goal by producing high-quality, independent, and pragmatic public policy research and fostering debate across a broad range of social and economic issues.
- Date on which the interest arose, or became registrable: 2025-03-18
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Trustee of The Dartmouth Street Trust, which makes grants for the promotion of studies in political, economic and social science and cognate educational subjects, and for the promotion of education and dissemination of knowledge in such science and subjects.
- 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 £158,854 for Jess Asato in 2024-25 against a budget of £185,538. Office costs came to £20,828 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 | £158,854.02 |
| Office costs: spent | £20,828.24 |
| Accommodation: spent | £10,320.25 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £4,962.45 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £24,633 (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 outside the London area from 5 July 2024, plus an uplift to cover the cost of two dependants).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Lowestoft CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Senior Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Office Manager (permanent part time), Senior Caseworker (casual), Administrative Officer/Comms Officer (permanent full time), Senior Caseworker (permanent part time), Constituency Communications Manager (permanent part time), Intern (fixed term full time), Senior Parliamentary Assistant (casual) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
The Commons Votes API records 487 votes by Jess Asato in divisions since 4 July 2024. Of these, 46 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. The latest 30 votes on bills and motions are below, from 22 June 2026 to 20 October 2026. The most recent, on 20 October 2026, was an Aye on "Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Third Reading".
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
Since 4 July 2024, 177 written questions have been tabled by Jess Asato, the parliamentary record shows. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; House of Commons Commission; Department for Education; Home Office.
Internet: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on whether Ofcom has established whether Meta carried out a risk assessment before the recent roll out of its new AI image-generation feature; an …
Parliament's Education Service: Finance
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that the outcomes from the Savings and Improvements Programme adequately support the continued delivery of Pa …
Chamber and Participation Team: Finance
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the adequacy of planned levels of future funding for the Chamber and Participation Team’s Outreach Team.
Family Hubs: Speech and Language Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Best Start in Life Family Hubs will include families with children aged 2 and under at risk of developing speech and language challenges.
Intimate Image Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an estimate of how much money online platforms receive from image-based sexual abuse channels on their services.
Intimate Image Abuse: Financial Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the report by AI Forensics entitled ‘Harassment as Infrastructure’, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of payment providers fa …
Artificial Intelligence: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will bring forward an AI Bill that ensures the safety of current and emerging AI products to help tackle the harms of tech-facilitated gender-based violence.
Artificial Intelligence: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of AI innovations increasing violence against women and girls.
Religion: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to engage with the (a) National Association of Teachers of Religious Education and (b) Religious Education Council on the RE curriculum.
Religion: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department provides guidance to schools to use religious education to promote respect, tolerance, and community cohesion.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 8f14320370e1. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Jess Asato.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election Lowestoft returned Jess Asato with a majority of 2,016: 14,464 votes, 34.6% of those cast, against 12,448 for Peter Aldous. Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Lowestoft figures
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