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Dr Zubir Ahmed

Labour Glasgow South West

Voting record

5
Voted for
2
Voted against
2
Didn’t vote

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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Whip meter Estimate 82%

How often Dr Zubir Ahmed 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.

Recent votes
Representation of the People Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading
Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Railways Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading
Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted No at 3rd reading
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted No at 3rd reading

Government & opposition roles

Dr Zubir Ahmed doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.

Previously held
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) — Department of Health and Social Care (2025-09-06 to 2026-05-12) Government

Declared financial interests

From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Dr Zubir Ahmed →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

1. Employment and earnings

Role, work or services: NHS surgeon
Until: 1 October 2025.
Payer: NHS golden jubilee, Agamemon street Clydebank
(Registered 4 August 2024; updated 17 October 2025)
Payment: £19,878 Payment for work undertaken between July 2024 and July 2025 in general surgery at the Golden Jubilee Hospital and specialist transplant surgery at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, and provision of clinical governance support
Work or services: General and transplant surgery specialist services
Received on: 30 August 2025. Hours: 290 hrs Hours worked are an estimate and include on call provision and include emergency surgery provision provided at weekends and night.
(Registered 30 September 2025)
Payment: £13,890 Amount will be used to fund costs associated with continuing professional development and medical licensing with the remainder donated to charity.
Work or services: General vascular and transplant surgery
Received on: 26 February 2026. Hours: 196 hrs approximate number of hours worked primarily overnight weekends and Friday work This is for the purposes of maintaining my professional skills as well as delivering continuity of care to patients and providing teaching and sub-specialist clinical advice to NHS colleagues. Also performed to fulfil criteria to maintain a medical license.
(Registered 22 March 2026)
Remuneration: £2,065 a month Amount will be used to fund costs associated with continuing professional development and medical licensing with the remainder donated to charity.
From: 6 April 2026.
Hours: 28 hrs a month Approximate due to variable weekend emergency on call commitment
(Registered 22 March 2026)

EducationHealth & social care

Role, work or services: Emergency vascular surgeon
Payer: NHS Fife (NHS organisation), Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy KY2 5AH
(Registered 30 September 2025)
Payment: £17,920 Payment for emergency vascular surgery provision in ninewells hospital during parliamentary recess to cover a short notice staff absence.
Work or services: Emergency vascular surgeon
Received on: 30 August 2025. Hours: 190 hrs No of hours worked is an estimate as it covers emergency on call availability, overnight emergency cover and time spent in hospital operating and performing other clinical duties and providing remote specialist clinical advice.
(Registered 30 September 2025)

Health & social care
2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: Francesca Sainsbury Perrin
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £30,000
Date received: 23 February 2026
Date accepted: 25 February 2026
Donor status: individual
(Registered 22 March 2026)

8. Miscellaneous

Honorary surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
(Registered 4 August 2024)

Health & social care

Written questions to government

No written questions on file for Dr Zubir Ahmed yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Dr Zubir Ahmed has ever tabled.

Business costs (IPSA)

£285,077.48 paid out to or for Dr Zubir Ahmed across 129 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 Dr Zubir Ahmed’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.

By category
Staffing — £183,063.45 (13 claims)
Office Costs — £43,337.27 (86 claims)
Accommodation — £35,859.30 (15 claims)
MP Travel — £11,295.48 (5 claims)
Staff Travel — £8,988.89 (9 claims)
Dependant Travel — £2,533.09 (1 claim)
Most recent claims
TV licence — £174.50, 2026-03-31 — CO-OP GROUP 010406 [200013613-6479]
Equipment - purchase — £247.00, 2026-03-03 — Other office equipment
Utilities — £1,500.00, 2026-02-24 — Electricity
Utilities — £217.17, 2026-02-24 — Water
Stationery & printing — £124.00, 2026-02-20 — SCOTTISH PRINT [200013624-2806]
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries — £72.00, 2026-02-12
Equipment - purchase — £300.50, 2026-02-11 — Office furniture
Equipment - purchase — £179.99, 2026-02-03 — Sundries

Every claim on file for Dr Zubir Ahmed →

Early Day Motions

Dr Zubir Ahmed has tabled 10 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 67 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Dr Zubir Ahmed personally tabled — not motions Dr Zubir Ahmed 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.

Most recent tabled
Appointment of Satty Singh as Army Honorary Colonel — tabled 2026-09-14, 2 sponsors
Reece Mckie — tabled 2026-09-14, 2 sponsors
Kieran McGregor — tabled 2026-09-07, 2 sponsors
25 years of Glasgow ANSAR — tabled 2026-07-15, 1 sponsor
Shahid Choudhary — tabled 2026-07-13, 7 sponsors
Moygashel Bonfire 2026 — tabled 2026-07-13, 7 sponsors
Armed Forces Week 2026 — tabled 2026-06-24, 4 sponsors

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Dr Zubir Ahmed isn’t listed as an officer of any All-Party Parliamentary Group on file — true of most MPs. See APPGs for the full register.

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