Janet Daby, MP for Lewisham East
Janet Daby has been an MP since 2018. Currently: Justice Committee; International Development Committee.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) (Department for Education) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Youth Justice) (Ministry of Justice) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Faiths, Women and Equalities) (Government Equalities Office) | 2020 | |
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2020 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Justice Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Health Bill | 2026 | |
| International Development Committee | 2025 to now | Now |
| Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL] | 2025 | |
| Victims and Prisoners Bill | 2023 | |
| Justice Committee | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Approved Premises (Substance Testing) Bill | 2021 | |
| Judicial Review and Courts Bill | 2021 |
Show the other 4
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Justice Committee | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2020 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2019 | |
| Justice Committee | 2018 to 2019 |
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.
No interests are currently registered for Janet Daby.
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.
Janet Daby asked 7 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.
43 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
Janet Daby represents Lewisham East. 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
Janet Daby won with 58% of the votes, and Mike Herron (Green Party) came second with 14%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janet Daby | Labour | 23,646 | 58.2% |
| Mike Herron | Green Party | 5,573 | 13.7% |
| Louise Brice | Conservative | 4,401 | 10.8% |
| Ruth Handyside | Reform UK | 3,469 | 8.5% |
| Callum Littlemore | Liberal Democrat | 2,471 | 6.1% |
| Steph Koffi | Workers Party of Britain | 577 | 1.4% |
| Maureen Martin | Christian Peoples Alliance | 404 | 1.0% |
| Richard Galloway | Young People's Party | 96 | 0.2% |
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 Janet Daby took part in 182 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Janet Daby voted the same way as their party in 181 of the 181 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 |
| 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 |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 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% |
| 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