Ms Abena Oppong-Asare, MP for Erith and Thamesmead
Abena Oppong-Asare has been an MP since 2019. Currently: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee; Liaison Committee (Commons); Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Cabinet Office) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Women's Health and Mental Health) (Department of Health and Social Care) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Exchequer Secretary (Treasury) (HM Treasury) | 2020 to 2023 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2026 to now | Now |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Liaison Sub-Committee on National Policy Statements | 2026 to now | Now |
| Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission | 2026 to now | Now |
| Finance (No. 2) Bill | 2023 | |
| UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [Lords] | 2022 | |
| Finance (No.2) Bill | 2021 to 2022 | |
| Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee | 2020 to 2021 |
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.
Abena Oppong-Asare has 2 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | A Patron of Erith Town Football Club: this is an unpaid role | 14 Aug 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | A patron of Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice, London. This is an unpaid role. | 1 Sep 2022 |
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.
Abena Oppong-Asare asked 8 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.
48 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
Abena Oppong-Asare represents Erith and Thamesmead. 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
Abena Oppong-Asare won with 55% of the votes, and Michael Pastor (Reform UK) came second with 15%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abena Oppong-Asare | Labour | 22,246 | 55.1% |
| Michael Pastor | Reform UK | 5,944 | 14.7% |
| Richard Mark | Conservative | 5,564 | 13.8% |
| Sarah Barry | Green Party | 3,482 | 8.6% |
| Pierce Chalmers | Liberal Democrat | 1,872 | 4.6% |
| Mohammed Abu Shahed | Workers Party of Britain | 1,071 | 2.7% |
| Diana Diamond | Independent | 200 | 0.5% |
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 Abena Oppong-Asare took part in 220 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Abena Oppong-Asare voted the same way as their party in 218 of the 218 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 | Against | 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