Labour Party MP for Central Ayrshire since (elected). An MP continuously since .
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92
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Register entries
8
As currently published
Declared while sitting for Labour
£12,315.92
6 of 8 entries state an amount
| Party | Office | Area | Period | Began | Ended | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | MP | Central Ayrshire | – present | elected | — | Party history |
Parliament's party history for this member: Labour ( – present).
Every entry the member has in the Register of Members' Financial Interests, as Parliament currently publishes it. The wording and values are the member's own declarations; nothing here has been assessed by this site.
Totals add only the entries that declare an amount received: payments for work, donations, gifts, and funded visits (register categories 1.1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Ongoing employment is listed but not added, because its figure is a rate rather than a sum received. Each entry is dated by when the benefit happened, not when it was registered, and placed under the party the member sat for on that date. A member who changed party therefore has a separate total for each.
| Date | Category | Entry | Declared value | Sitting for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Bangladesh between 02 October 2026 and 08 October 2026Alliance to End Malnutrition and Hunger Limited (knows as United Against Malnutrition & Hunger) | £1,880 | Labour | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Syria between 29 June 2026 and 02 July 2026Syria Britain Business Council | £2,202.27 | Labour | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to China between 24 May 2026 and 29 May 2026Great Britain China Centre | £4,763 | Labour | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Angola between 15 February 2026 and 20 March 2026The Eleanor Crook Foundation | £2,338.33 | Labour | Register record | |
| 3. Gifts, UK sources | Global Media & Entertainment Limited - £500.00 | £500 | Labour | Register record | |
| 4. Visits outside the UK | International visit to Bahrain between 02 May 2025 and 05 May 2025Armed Forces Parliamentary Trust | £632.32 | Labour | Register record | |
| date registered | 8. Miscellaneous | Director, 30th State Productions Limited | — | Labour | Register record |
| date registered | 7. Shareholdings | Shares in 30th State Productions Limited | — | Labour | Register record |
I thank the Minister for his statement and welcome this decision. People in Ayrshire are proud of the role that Scotland has played in powering our nation. Can he say a bit more about what the decision means for supply chain jobs in the North sea sector in Scotland and right across the country?
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for listing the many failures of the SNP Government over their time in Holyrood. I wonder whether she might think about why, once they decided not to invest in new nuclear, they did not take steps to make additional or other energy solutions available. We have not had a new pumped hydro storage solution in Scotland since 1965. Does she think about the SNP’s other failures in trying to have a sensible energy policy?
It is great to see the Minister in her place, and I thank her for a brilliant visit to Prestwick this week. Let me say how proud I am to join my Labour Ayrshire colleagues in calling for nuclear back in Ayrshire at Hunterston, and how frustrated I am at the lack of skills, jobs and investment in our communities. Can the Minister say anything about why the SNP’s anti-scientific, irrational stance is continuing?
I thank the Opposition spokesperson for this debate today, but can I also say how grateful I am that the Minister for Border Security and Asylum, my right hon. Friend the Member for Redcar (Anna Turley) is in her place? More than 20 years ago, she and I worked in the Home Office, where we inherited another Tory mess on asylum. With a great Home Secretary and a brilliant team, we reduced the backlog, made appeals much more difficult and made the country a much safer place. Will she bring some of her experience from 20 years ago to this job, after the mess the Tories left have us?
Scotch whisky is one of our great success stories, and I recognise that there are concerns from the Scotch Whisky Association about this proposed change. I am proud to have in my constituency locally a distillery on land that Robert Burns once farmed, and I am pleased to have played a small part in reducing whisky tariffs when I was the trade commissioner in Mumbai and that this Government have continued to put Scotch whisky on the world stage through our very successful trade deals. I am delighted to see the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, my hon. Friend the Member for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (Melanie Ward), in her place on the Front Bench. Will the Minister say that she, he and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade will do all they can to promote this great Scottish product around the world?
It was behind me.
I thank the Minister for his statement and for his leadership on this incident. NATS has rightly apologised unreservedly for the incident at Swanwick, which affected, infuriatingly, hundreds of thousands of travellers. Will the Minister join me in thanking the staff of NATS in Prestwick, in my constituency, for their support in the management of this incident?
Will the hon. Member give way?
It was very nice to hear the hon. Member being so positive about the UK, and I wanted to underscore that. I also wanted to say, as a former diplomat, that it was great to see the role that these events play in our soft power. I wonder if he might comment on how important these events are for Scotland and the whole UK in promoting who we are in the world.
I congratulate the Minister on this important agreement, which provides certainty for the people of Gibraltar, while also providing economic opportunities and important safeguards for that place. I thank Foreign Office staff for the work that they have done, and both the current and previous Gibraltar Government representatives in the UK, Jonathan Scott and Dominique Searle. Does the Minister agree that this much-needed agreement provides certainty for the people of Gibraltar?
Held . Recorded result: Lab Gain. Majority 6,869. 41,419 votes cast from an electorate of 69,413. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Gemmell | Labour | 18,091 | 43.7% |
| Annie McIndoe | Scottish National Party | 11,222 | 27.1% |
| David Rocks | Conservative | 6,147 | 14.8% |
| Kevin Blades | Reform UK | 3,420 | 8.3% |
| Tom Kerr | Scottish Green Party | 1,039 | 2.5% |
| Elaine Ford | Liberal Democrat | 983 | 2.4% |
| Louise McDaid | Socialist Labour Party | 329 | 0.8% |
| Alan MacMillan | Social Democratic Party | 188 | 0.5% |
| Seat | Dates |
|---|---|
| Central AyrshireElected 1 time | – present |
| Committee | Dates |
|---|---|
| Foreign Affairs Committee | – |
| Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill [HL] | – |
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