Apsana Begum
Labour Poplar and Limehouse
Voting record
Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.
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How often Apsana Begum voted the same way as most of the Labour party, across every recorded division. Parliament doesn’t publish whether a vote was officially whipped, so this is our best estimate from the public record — not a confirmed fact.
Government & opposition roles
No government or shadow front-bench post on file for Apsana Begum — most MPs never hold one, so this is the normal state for a backbencher, not a gap in the data.
Declared financial interests
From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Apsana Begum →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.
Name of company or organisation: Apsana Begum Ltd
Nature of business: A company created to deliver campaigns and support my work as an MP.
Interest held: from 10 January 2023
(Registered 27 February 2023)
Unpaid Director of Apsana Begum Ltd.
Date interest arose: 10 January 2023
(Registered 27 February 2023)
Written questions to government
No written questions on file for Apsana Begum yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Apsana Begum has ever tabled.
Business costs (IPSA)
£276,876.16 paid out to or for Apsana Begum across 99 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Apsana Begum’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.
Early Day Motions
Apsana Begum has tabled 8 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 169 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Apsana Begum personally tabled — not motions Apsana Begum may have added their name to as a supporter, which this data source doesn’t track per MP. See Early Day Motions for what this does and doesn’t cover.
All-Party Parliamentary Groups
Apsana Begum is a listed officer of 6 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.
Biggest declared funder across these groups: European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights — about £36,339.00 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights).
Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Apsana Begum personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Apsana Begum is a listed officer of — ordinary members aren’t published. Amounts are Parliament’s own figures; where it gave a banded range the midpoint is used, so totals are approximate. Funders are grouped by name, so the same organisation spelled very differently may appear twice.
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