Joani Reid MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for East Kilbride and Strathaven is Joani Reid (Labour).
Offices and committees
UK Parliament records Joani Reid as a current member of this committee.
Committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Home Affairs Committee | 21 October 2024 | Current |
Earlier committees
| Committee or post | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill | 9 June 2025 | 11 June 2025 |
Source: Parliament Members API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 3580a72a7e66.
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Joani Reid, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2), Shareholdings (2), Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP (1), Family members engaged in third-party lobbying (1), Land and property (within or outside the UK) (1). Latest registration 9 March 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Earthcott Ltd - £2,400.00
- How the donation was received: (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)
- Whether the benefit was monetary or in kind: In kind
- Description of the payment: media training
- Value of the benefit: £2,400.00
- Date on which the benefit was received: 2026-02-12
- Date on which the benefit was accepted: 2026-02-12
- Name of the donor: Earthcott Ltd
- Status of the donor: Company
David Taylor employed as Lobbyist
- Job title or role: Director
- Name of employer: Earthcott Limited
- Name of the family member acting as a lobbyist: David Taylor
- Who the family member is directly related to: Related to member directly
- Nature of relationship: Spouse
Project board member of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Unpaid director of a residents property management company. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Shares in Reid Strategy Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: Reid Strategy Limited
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Personal service company (no longer trading), in the process of being wound up.
Shares in [redacted] RTM Company Limited
- Registrable threshold for this shareholding interest: (i) Shareholdings: over 15% of issued share capital
- Name of the company or partnership: [redacted] RTM Company Limited
- Nature of the company or partnership's business: Residents property management company
Property in London
- Location of the land or property: London
- A description of the property: Flat
- 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
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 28 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Joani Reid's office spent £139,014 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. Office costs came to £23,901 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 | £139,013.73 |
| Office costs: spent | £23,900.61 |
| Accommodation: spent | £20,194.89 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £16,460.10 |
| 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: East Kilbride and Strathaven CC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Parliamentary Assistant (fixed term full time), Executive Assistant (permanent full time), Chief of Staff (permanent full time), Caseworker ×2 (permanent part time), Office Manager/Senior Parl Assistant (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Joani Reid voted in the House of Commons: 341 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 22 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 10 September 2026, was a No on "Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 15 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Joani Reid has tabled 28 written questions since 4 July 2024, according to the Written Questions API. Departments in the latest 10: Department for Work and Pensions; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Access to Work Programme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was between approval of an Access to Work application and support being put in place in 2025.
Access to Work Programme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for Access to Work (a) assessments and (b) decisions.
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help improve (a) response times to (i) queries and (ii) complaints and (b) other communication between the Child Maintenance Service and service users.
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Access to Work scheme in supporting disabled people to (a) enter and (b) remain in employment.
Torness Power Station
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he has made an estimate of the total output of Torness nuclear power station over the last year and what proportion of Scottish generation this represents.
Electricity: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department made an assessment of the impact of zonal pricing of electricity on inward investment into Scottish low carbon electricity.
Electricity: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what representations he has received from the Scottish Government on the issue of zonal pricing for electricity.
Electricity: Scotland
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many days in the last year the electricity grid in Scotland was supplied with electricity generated elsewhere in the UK.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: East Kilbride
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent engagement she has had with trade unions representing FCDO staff in East Kilbride on restructuring proposals.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: East Kilbride
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposed restructuring within the FCDO on staff based in East Kilbride.
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 c1602028ffb6. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Joani Reid.
2024 general election
At the 4 July 2024 general election East Kilbride and Strathaven returned Joani Reid with a majority of 9,057: 22,682 votes, 48.6% of those cast, against 13,625 for Grant Costello. Result as published: Lab gain from SNP.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · East Kilbride and Strathaven figures
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