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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%).

4 Sep 2026 Motion to sit in private Ayes 1, Noes 79 no vote recorded
7 Jul 2026 Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners Ayes 115, Noes 0 no vote recorded
1 Jul 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 Ayes 173, Noes 282 no vote recorded
1 Jul 2026 Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 Ayes 80, Noes 281 no vote recorded
24 Jun 2026 Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2026 Ayes 323, Noes 160 no vote recorded
23 Jun 2026 Opposition Day: Puberty blockers Ayes 112, Noes 283 no vote recorded
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 Ayes 171, Noes 322 no vote recorded
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 22 Ayes 74, Noes 323 no vote recorded
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 11 Ayes 104, Noes 391 no vote recorded
22 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: New Clause 4 Ayes 164, Noes 311 no vote recorded
15 Jun 2026 Royal Albert Hall Bill [Lords]: Revival Ayes 24, Noes 37 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 8 Ayes 145, Noes 251 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 Ayes 65, Noes 251 no vote recorded
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill Committee: Amendment 12 Ayes 81, Noes 266 no vote recorded
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Committee: New Clause 13 Ayes 80, Noes 298 no vote recorded
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Committee: New Clause 6 Ayes 99, Noes 371 no vote recorded
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Committee: New Clause 5 Ayes 170, Noes 301 no vote recorded
2 Jun 2026 Armed Forces Bill Committee: New Clause 2 Ayes 171, Noes 302 no vote recorded
27 Apr 2026 Northern Ireland Troubles Bill: Carry-over motion Ayes 279, Noes 176 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 6 Ayes 290, Noes 163 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 5 Ayes 292, Noes 162 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 4 Ayes 300, Noes 149 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 Ayes 286, Noes 163 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 Ayes 295, Noes 162 no vote recorded
25 Mar 2026 Victims and Courts Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 1 Ayes 291, Noes 158 no vote recorded
24 Mar 2026 Opposition Day: Defence Ayes 98, Noes 306 no vote recorded
18 Mar 2026 Opposition day: Student loans Ayes 88, Noes 266 no vote recorded
18 Mar 2026 Opposition day: Fuel duty Ayes 103, Noes 259 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill: Third Reading Ayes 292, Noes 161 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 6 Ayes 175, Noes 292 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: Amendment 5 Ayes 172, Noes 283 no vote recorded
11 Mar 2026 Finance (No. 2) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 11 Ayes 174, Noes 292 no vote recorded
23 Feb 2026 Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 Ayes 156, Noes 273 no vote recorded
23 Feb 2026 Industry and Exports (Financial Assistance) Bill Committee: Amendment 1 Ayes 161, Noes 272 no vote recorded
3 Feb 2026 Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill: Second Reading Ayes 458, Noes 104 no vote recorded
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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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