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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

PostWhen
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

PostWhen
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

PostWhen
Licensing Hours Extensions Bill2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill2025
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill2023
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill2022
Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill2021
Subsidy Control Bill2021
Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill2021
Panel of Chairs2020
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PostWhen
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union2020 to 2021
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union2017 to 2019
Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion2016 to 2019
Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union2016 to 2017
Justice Committee2012 to 2013

Countries of interest

ChinaIndiaUSAMiddle-East

Political Interests

Female entrepreneurshipcommunity bankingwomen and businesswomen and boardsdiversity on public boardspolicingjusticewomen offendersequalities

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.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousA trustee of the Dartmouth Street Trust, a grant-making body for policy research in relation to poverty.21 Mar 2022
MiscellaneousChair 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 Brentford22 Dec 2011
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Residential in London SW322 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

Treasury1

Latest questions

4 Sep 2026 · to the Treasury
Answered 16 Sep 2026

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.

PAID IN 2025-26
£21,917
Office costs · claims for running an office£13,943
Staffing · claims relating to staff£7,974

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.

Costs depend on many things, such as where an MP’s area is, what premises and staff they need, and whether they joined or left part-way through the year. This page does not say whether any amount is right or wrong. It covers the claims in IPSA’s individual business costs file, so it is not the full cost of an MP’s office.

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.

WINNER, 2024
Seema Malhotra

Labour

MAJORITY
7,944

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
51%

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

Labour42% · 16,139
Conservative21% · 8,195
Reform UK13% · 5,130
Independent7% · 2,858
Green Party7% · 2,543
Workers Party of Britain6% · 2,201
Everyone else5% · 1,821
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Seema MalhotraLabour16,13941.5%
Reva GudiConservative8,19521.1%
Prabhdeep SinghReform UK5,13013.2%
Katherine KandelakiGreen Party2,5436.5%
Amritpal Singh MannWorkers Party of Britain2,2015.7%
Dhruv SenguptaLiberal Democrat1,8214.7%
Abdul Majid TrambooIndependent1,6584.3%
Ian Christopher BrownIndependent4541.2%
Aysha Siddika ChoudhuryIndependent3731.0%
Damian ReadIndependent3731.0%

2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.

Your area at a glance

Typical pay for full-time workers who live here
£728 a week
This areaUK: £767 a week

Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.

Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
5.2%
This areaUK: 3.9%

Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.

At a general election each area elects one MP, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even without more than half. The area figures describe the people who live here. They do not show whether any MP or vote is the cause.

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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

DateVoteThey votedCompared with party
11 SepEnd of life for terminally ill adults: the first main voteAgainstFree vote
11 SepA vote to end a debateForFree vote
10 SepSocial housing: an attempt to block itAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party
8 SepHealth: a proposed changeAgainstSame as party

See every vote on Parliament’s site

Has this changed over time?

90%95%100%Oct 25Sep 26
This MPParty average
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MonthThis MPParty average
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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