Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan, MP for Vale of Glamorgan
Kanishka Narayan has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology); Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill; Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology) (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) | 2025 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill | 2026 to now | Now |
| Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill | 2025 to now | Now |
| Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill | 2025 |
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.
Kanishka Narayan has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Mundev Wouhra - £10,000.00 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Mundev Wouhra - £10,000.00 | 2 Jan 2026 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | India Legal Services Limited - £4,000.00 | 8 Aug 2025 |
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.
Kanishka Narayan has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.
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.
53 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
Kanishka Narayan represents Vale of Glamorgan. 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
Kanishka Narayan won with 39% of the votes, and Alun Cairns (Conservative) came second with 30%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanishka Narayan | Labour | 17,740 | 38.7% |
| Alun Cairns | Conservative | 13,524 | 29.5% |
| Toby Rhodes-Matthews | Reform UK | 6,973 | 15.2% |
| Ian Johnson | Plaid Cymru | 3,245 | 7.1% |
| Lynden Mack | Green Party | 1,881 | 4.1% |
| Steven Rajam | Liberal Democrat | 1,612 | 3.5% |
| Stuart Field | Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party | 669 | 1.5% |
| Steven Sluman | Independent | 182 | 0.4% |
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 Kanishka Narayan took part in 166 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Kanishka Narayan voted the same way as their party in 165 of the 165 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 |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: the final vote | For | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 2 Sep | Voting and elections: 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