Seema Malhotra, MP for Feltham and Heston
Seema Malhotra has been an MP since 2011.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities) (Department for Education) | 2024 to 2026 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Education) (Department for Education) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) (Employment) (Department for Work and Pensions) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury) | 2015 to 2016 | |
| Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2015 | |
| Opposition Whip (Commons) (Whips Office (Commons)) | 2013 to 2015 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2025 | |
| Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill | 2025 | |
| Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill | 2023 | |
| Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill | 2022 | |
| Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill | 2021 | |
| Subsidy Control Bill | 2021 | |
| Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill | 2021 | |
| Panel of Chairs | 2020 |
Show the other 5
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union | 2020 to 2021 | |
| Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion | 2016 to 2019 | |
| Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union | 2016 to 2017 | |
| Justice Committee | 2012 to 2013 |
Countries of interest
Political Interests
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Seema Malhotra has 4 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | A trustee of the Dartmouth Street Trust, a grant-making body for policy research in relation to poverty. | 21 Mar 2022 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of Hounslow’s Promise, a charity set up by local MPs, schools, businesses and community organisations to support the education attainment, social mobility and employability of young people in Hounslow. | 1 Jul 2019 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in Brentford | 22 Dec 2011 |
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Residential in London SW3 | 22 Dec 2011 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Seema Malhotra asked 1 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
85 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Seema Malhotra represents Feltham and Heston. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Seema Malhotra won with 42% of the votes, and Reva Gudi (Conservative) came second with 21%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seema Malhotra | Labour | 16,139 | 41.5% |
| Reva Gudi | Conservative | 8,195 | 21.1% |
| Prabhdeep Singh | Reform UK | 5,130 | 13.2% |
| Katherine Kandelaki | Green Party | 2,543 | 6.5% |
| Amritpal Singh Mann | Workers Party of Britain | 2,201 | 5.7% |
| Dhruv Sengupta | Liberal Democrat | 1,821 | 4.7% |
| Abdul Majid Tramboo | Independent | 1,658 | 4.3% |
| Ian Christopher Brown | Independent | 454 | 1.2% |
| Aysha Siddika Choudhury | Independent | 373 | 1.0% |
| Damian Read | Independent | 373 | 1.0% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Seema Malhotra took part in 110 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Seema Malhotra voted the same way as their party in 108 of the 108 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | For | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this