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Gurinder Singh Josan, MP for Smethwick

Gurinder Singh Josan has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Procedure Committee.

Roles and committees

Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.

Committees

PostWhen
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]2025
Procedure Committee2024 to nowNow

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.

Gurinder Singh Josan has 9 interests currently registered.

TypeWhat was registeredRegistered
MiscellaneousParliamentary Labour Party Representative on the Labour Party National Executive Committee where I am Chair of the NEC Complaints and Disciplinary Sub Committee and a member of the Officer Group. This is an unpaid role.4 Dec 2024
MiscellaneousDirector of Labour First Ltd. This is an unpaid role.9 Oct 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in Sandwell and Birmingham3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousDirector of Sikhs for Labour Ltd and Vice Chair of Sikhs for Labour - a Labour Party Friends group. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
Land and property (within or outside the UK)Property in Sandwell3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousGovernor at Holly Lodge High School College of Science in Smethwick. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousChair of Trustees at HOPE Unlimited Charitable Trust (formerly known as HOPE not hate Charitable Trust). This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousDirector of Josan Estates Ltd. This is an unpaid role.3 Aug 2024
MiscellaneousChair of Trustees at Victoria Academies Trust - a Multi Academy Trust. This is an unpaid role.29 Jul 2024

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.

Gurinder Singh Josan asked 22 written questions in the last 12 months.

Who they asked

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero6
Treasury4
Ministry of Justice3
Department for Business and Trade3
Home Office2

Latest questions

2 Jul 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 10 Jul 2026
17 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 26 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 26 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 26 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026 · to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Answered 26 Jun 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
£17,537
Office costs · claims for running an office£17,537

40 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

Gurinder Singh Josan represents Smethwick. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.

WINNER, 2024
Gurinder Josan

Labour

MAJORITY
11,188

votes ahead of second place

TURNOUT
48%

of people who could vote did

Gurinder Josan won with 48% of the votes, and Pete Durnell (Reform UK) came second with 16%.

Votes for each party

Labour48% · 16,858
Reform UK16% · 5,670
Conservative13% · 4,546
Green Party8% · 2,741
Workers Party of Britain7% · 2,449
Independent5% · 1,670
Everyone else3% · 1,181
Every candidate
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gurinder JosanLabour16,85848.0%
Pete DurnellReform UK5,67016.1%
Kate FairhurstConservative4,54612.9%
Roderick MacRorieGreen Party2,7417.8%
Nahim RubaniWorkers Party of Britain2,4497.0%
Jay AnandouIndependent1,3223.8%
Oliver PatrickLiberal Democrat1,0182.9%
Christopher GrahamIndependent3481.0%
Ravaldeep BathTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition1630.5%

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
£636 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
7.3%
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 Gurinder Singh Josan took part in 228 Commons votes.

More detail on how they vote

Gurinder Singh Josan voted the same way as their party in 226 of the 226 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 debateAgainstFree 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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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