Iqbal Mohamed, MP for Dewsbury and Batley
Iqbal Mohamed has been an MP since 2024.
Roles and committees
Iqbal Mohamed holds no government or opposition post and sits on no committee at the moment, and Parliament lists none for the past.
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.
Iqbal Mohamed has 5 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) - £40,000.00 | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Visits outside the UK | International visit to Qatar between 05 December 2025 and 09 December 2025 | 27 Dec 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Unpaid Director of Your Party UK Ltd, a private company limited by guarantee. | 10 Sep 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | Voluntary Committee Member of Mohaddis-e-Azam Mission Dewsbury UK, a registered charity. This is an unpaid role. | 30 Jul 2024 |
| Shareholdings | Shares in Adnaan Iqbal Mohamed Consulting Ltd. | 30 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.
Iqbal Mohamed asked 351 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.
125 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
Iqbal Mohamed represents Dewsbury and Batley. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Independent
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Iqbal Mohamed won with 41% of the votes, and Heather Iqbal (Labour) came second with 23%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iqbal Mohamed | Independent | 15,641 | 41.1% |
| Heather Iqbal | Labour | 8,707 | 22.9% |
| Johnathan Thackray | Reform UK | 6,152 | 16.2% |
| Lalit Suryawanshi | Conservative | 4,182 | 11.0% |
| Simon Cope | Green Party | 2,048 | 5.4% |
| John Rossington | Liberal Democrat | 1,340 | 3.5% |
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 Iqbal Mohamed took part in 162 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Iqbal Mohamed voted the same way as their party in 136 of the 147 votes where parties gave instructions (93%), and went the other way in 11.
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 | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | For | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Times they voted against their party (11)
| Date | Vote | They voted | Most of their party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun | Railways: a proposed change | For | Against |
| 27 Jan | Medical training places: a proposed change | For | Against |
| 12 Jan | Tax changes (the Finance Bill): a proposed change | For | Against |
| 10 Dec | Opposition debate: Conduct of the Chancellor of the Exchequer | For | Against |
| 9 Dec | Railways: the first main vote | Against | For |
| 3 Dec | Pensions: a proposed change | For | Against |
| 13 Nov | Planning and infrastructure: changes from the House of Lords | For | Against |
| 21 Oct | Sentencing: a proposed change | For | Against |
| 21 Oct | Sentencing: a proposed change | For | Against |
| 20 Oct | Diego Garcia military base and the British Indian Ocean Territory: a vote on one part | Against | For |
| 14 Oct | Mental health: a proposed change | For | Against |
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 71% | 73% |
| Nov 25 | 96% | 76% |
| Dec 25 | 79% | 66% |
| Jan 26 | 89% | 66% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 68% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 75% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 75% |
| May 26 | 100% | 67% |
| Jun 26 | 93% | 71% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 86% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 89% |
Source: Commons Votes API
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