Blair McDougall, MP for East Renfrewshire
Blair McDougall has been an MP since 2024. Currently: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) .
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | 2026 to now | Now |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2025 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Foreign Affairs Committee | 2024 to 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.
Blair McDougall has 7 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Miscellaneous | Membership of Advisory Board to Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes | 16 Jun 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of board of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights. This is an unpaid role. | 7 Jun 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Appointment as a patron of Hong Kong Watch. | 14 Mar 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of Eastwood Scouts District Council. This is an unpaid role. | 5 Feb 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Member of the Executive Committee of the British Group of the Interparliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role. | 5 Feb 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Chair of Stop Uyghur Genocide Charity. This is an unpaid role. | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Director of Uyghur Campaign Ltd. | 31 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.
Blair McDougall 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.
49 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
Blair McDougall represents East Renfrewshire. 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
Blair McDougall won with 44% of the votes, and Kirsten Oswald (Scottish National Party) came second with 27%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blair McDougall | Labour | 21,935 | 43.7% |
| Kirsten Oswald | Scottish National Party | 13,514 | 26.9% |
| Sandesh Gulhane | Conservative | 8,494 | 16.9% |
| Matt Alexander | Reform UK | 2,360 | 4.7% |
| Karen Sharkey | Scottish Green Party | 1,510 | 3.0% |
| Alan Grant | Liberal Democrat | 1,150 | 2.3% |
| Maria Reid | Scottish Family Party | 487 | 1.0% |
| Allan Steele | Liberal | 481 | 1.0% |
| Colette Walker | Independence for Scotland Party | 296 | 0.6% |
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 Blair McDougall took part in 182 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Blair McDougall voted the same way as their party in 180 of the 180 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% |
| 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