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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.

See Dr Zubir Ahmed’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Every Commons division on file for Dr Zubir Ahmed — amendments, motions and opposition-day votes as well as bills. Took part in 435 of 590 (74%).

11 Sep 2026 Closure motion Ayes 293, Noes 218 No
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 Ayes 162, Noes 297 No
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 Ayes 106, Noes 302 No
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 142 Ayes 108, Noes 357 No
8 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 140 Ayes 79, Noes 300 No
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 145 Ayes 170, Noes 316 No
7 Sep 2026 Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 6 Ayes 77, Noes 317 No
23 Jun 2026 Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness Ayes 108, Noes 307 No
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 148 Ayes 155, Noes 279 No
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: Amendment 143 Ayes 167, Noes 266 No
10 Jun 2026 Railways Bill Remaining Stages: New Clause 1 Ayes 77, Noes 271 No
20 May 2026 King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (p) Ayes 104, Noes 316 No
20 May 2026 King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (l) Ayes 78, Noes 408 No
20 May 2026 King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (o) Ayes 104, Noes 317 No
19 May 2026 King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i) Ayes 108, Noes 323 No
28 Apr 2026 Privilege Ayes 223, Noes 335 No
24 Mar 2026 Opposition Day: Oil and gas Ayes 108, Noes 297 No
28 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: Youth unemployment Ayes 91, Noes 287 No
28 Jan 2026 Opposition Day: British Indian Ocean Territory Ayes 103, Noes 284 No
27 Jan 2026 Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill: Amendment 1 Ayes 88, Noes 310 No
27 Jan 2026 Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill: Amendment 2 Ayes 61, Noes 311 No
27 Jan 2026 Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill: Amendment 9 Ayes 91, Noes 378 No
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Covers 9 Mar 2016 to 11 Sep 2026 — Parliament’s votes data doesn’t go back further. “No vote recorded” is Parliament’s own list of members with nothing recorded for that division: it can mean absent, deliberately abstaining, paired, or excused, and the data doesn’t say which. Click a division title for Parliament’s own page for it.

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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