Alex Sobel
MP since 8 Jun 2017
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Alex Sobel is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and has been an MP continually since 8 June 2017.
1520
Votes Cast
£328,194
Expenses 2024-25
8,422
Majority
50.2%
Vote Share
Expenses (2024-25)
£328,194
Year-on-Year
Election Result(2024 General Election)
Turnout: 31,595 voters
Parliamentary Activity
Counts in the current Parliament
(since 4 July 2024)
279
Written Questions
4
Oral Questions
148
Debates Spoken In⚑
198
Speeches⚑
388
Divisions Voted
⚑Debates and speeches are sourced from Hansard contributions. The Hansard backfill is still in progress — counts will grow over the next few days as historic days are ingested.
Voting Record
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1520 votes — page 9 of 61
1 AYE2 NODiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee
3 votes · 20 Oct 2025
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill Committee
3 votes · 20 Oct 2025
2 NOSustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages
2 votes · 15 Oct 2025
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill Remaining Stages
2 votes · 15 Oct 2025
2 NOMental Health Bill Report Stage
2 votes · 14 Oct 2025
Mental Health Bill Report Stage
2 votes · 14 Oct 2025
1 AYE1 NODiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2 votes · 9 Sept 2025
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2 votes · 9 Sept 2025
7 AYERenters’ Rights Bill
7 votes · 8 Sept 2025
Renters’ Rights Bill
7 votes · 8 Sept 2025
2 NOOpposition day
2 votes · 3 Sept 2025
Opposition day
2 votes · 3 Sept 2025
1 AYE1 NOEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2 votes · 2 Sept 2025
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
2 votes · 2 Sept 2025
Financial Interests(9)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
BPI
two tickets and hospitality for the Brit Awards at Co-op Live, Manchester
28 February 2026
£3,432
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
BPI
two tickets and hospitality for the Brit Awards at Co-op Live, Manchester
28 February 2026
- Name of donor
- BPI
- Address of donor
- Unit 4/4a, Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road, London N7 9AH
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- two tickets and hospitality for the Brit Awards at Co-op Live, Manchester, value £3,432
- Date received
- 28 February 2026
- Date accepted
- 28 February 2026
- Donor status
- company, registration 01132389
Registered 15 March 2026
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Knights Tailoring Ltd
Two tickets for the National Film Awards to support the Ukrainian documentary 'We are Home' that won Best Documentary. Hospitality included drinks but no food
2 July 2025 to 2 July 2025
£750
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Knights Tailoring Ltd
Two tickets for the National Film Awards to support the Ukrainian documentary 'We are Home' that won Best Documentary. Hospitality included drinks but no food
2 July 2025 to 2 July 2025
- Name of donor
- Knights Tailoring Ltd
- Address of donor
- 5 Station Road, Tidworth SP9 7NN
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- Two tickets for the National Film Awards to support the Ukrainian documentary 'We are Home' that won Best Documentary. Hospitality included drinks but no food, value £750
- Date received
- 2 July 2025 to 2 July 2025
- Date accepted
- 2 July 2025
- Donor status
- company, registration 07036550
Registered 6 July 2025
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
BPI
2 floor tickets and dinner for the Mercury Music Prize at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle
16 October 2025 to 16 October 2025
£660
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
BPI
2 floor tickets and dinner for the Mercury Music Prize at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle
16 October 2025 to 16 October 2025
- Name of donor
- BPI
- Address of donor
- Unit 4/4a, Tileyard Studios, Tileyard Road, London N7 9AH
- Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind
- 2 floor tickets and dinner for the Mercury Music Prize at the Utilita Arena, Newcastle, value £660
- Date received
- 16 October 2025 to 16 October 2025
- Date accepted
- 16 October 2025
- Donor status
- company, registration 01132389
Registered 22 October 2025
Visits outside the UK
World Forum
£146
Visits outside the UK
World Forum
- Name of donor
- World Forum
- Address of donor
- Reinhardtstr. 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation)
- Meals, value £146
- Destination of visit
- Germany (Berlin)
- Dates of visit
- 17 March 2025 to 19 March 2025
- Purpose of visit
- Speaker at the World Forum 2025
Registered 17 April 2025
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
- Date interest arose
- 30 October 2025
Registered 6 November 2025
Activity Pulse
Questions asked and motions sponsored by Alex in Parliament
Sanctions: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to increase resources for enforcement agencies to (a) investigate and (b) prosecute complex sanct
Visas: Sponsorship
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure sponsor licenses are processed within the service standards timeframes.
Human Rights and Oppression
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a (a) hotline for reporting and (b) focus group on (i) politically motivat
Police: Translation Services
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure translators used by police forces are impartial.
Department for Work and Pensions: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training her Department requires call handlers to complete.
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a service standard timeframe for criminal investigations by her Department i
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many decision makers in her Department are working on cases of benefits fraud.
Autism: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training the NHS offers on pathological demand avoidance.
Special Educational Needs: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting schools to train staff to support (a) autistic students and (b) students wi
Sub-Saharan Africa: Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help ensure and (b) verify that funding provided to governments in (i) Ugand
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