East Renfrewshire / data
Blair McDougall · Labour Party · sitting since 04 Jul 2024 · every division, speech and committee appearance.
Since election
680days
from 04 Jul 2024
Divisions
391
of 515 possible
Attendance
76%
124 absent / paired
Whip alignment
97%
vs party majority
Speeches
380
49 debates
Written Qs
110
110 answered
Committees
0
memberships
Expenses
£186k paid
FY 2024–2025 · 150 claims
Interests
7
1 category
A · Overview
Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted — engagement only, not direction.
| Issue | Volume | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Taxation | 80 | |
| Economy | 77 | |
| Employment | 45 | |
| Crime & Policing | 34 | |
| Education | 30 | |
| Welfare and Benefits | 25 | |
| Constitution and Democracy | 24 | |
| Schools | 20 |
Speech topics
Words spoken, by topic. Source: Hansard.
| Topic | Debates | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Economy Jobs | 25 | 19,931 |
| Local Government | 13 | 10,571 |
| Utilities | 7 | 8,622 |
| Labour Market | 9 | 7,169 |
| Social Care | 4 | 6,319 |
| Fiscal Policy | 7 | 4,874 |
| Cost Of Living | 4 | 3,981 |
| Health | 2 | 2,344 |
B · Notable divisions
Free votes, rebellions and high-salience whipped votes — the moments that distinguish this MP from the party machine. The full division-by-division record will follow once the per-MP archive is wired.
| Date | Division | Whip | MP voted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 12Vote on whether to add a provision to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ensuring that if an independent doctor dies or becomes to… | Free vote | Aye |
| 20 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Third ReadingMPs voted on the Third Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — the final Commons vote on whether to pass the assisted dyin… | Free vote | No |
| 20 Jun 2025 | Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 77Vote on an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that would prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under th… | Free vote | No |
C · Speeches
| Date | Contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)No, we all have to be not just allies but active allies. | 12 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)We are committed to the taskforce in a long-term way, and you can see that in the way the workstreams have been ordered. Jason would oversee the two bits of work on behalf of the G… | 149 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)They should be. | 3 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)The wording could have been better. I suspect the emphasis was on highlighting people who are particularly— | 17 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)Yes. | 1 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)Can I just add to that? We have slightly discussed the tension between doing things that are structural and things that are bespoke and tailored to women entrepreneurs in particula… | 99 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)I would just challenge that slightly; the most important interventions that we are talking about run throughout the industrial strategy. I accept that if you press Ctrl and select … | 136 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)I have a couple of things on that. The first thing to note is obviously that many of the interventions and programmes that we are talking about are ones the Chancellor is deeply en… | 101 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)The first thing to acknowledge is that it is a very long-standing societal problem that we are running at here. However, first, we are running at it, and I am sure we will talk tod… | 118 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)She is a force of nature. | 6 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)It is extraordinary. Obviously the regulation of the platforms, social media and the places where some of this is happening is for DSIT. I know it is aware of it and is looking at … | 84 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)We are working very hard on improving our scale-up offer more generally because lots of our business support is not particularly focused on that journey. We will try to make sure t… | 159 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)It is a completely fair challenge. Can I address your first point before we talk about that? This is something we have not spoken as much about: the importance of visibility with a… | 148 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)I confess that it was this Committee that brought shadow banning to my attention and I was slightly astonished to learn about it. | 23 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Women and Equalities Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 711)Jason is the Treasury Minister here so I know not to overstep the mark, but I will add that there has been a call for evidence on how to improve entrepreneurial tax incentives, whi… | 47 |
D · Written questions
Top departments
| Department | Questions | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | 47 | 42.7% |
| Home Office | 21 | 19.1% |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 9 | 8.2% |
| Treasury | 5 | 4.5% |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | 5 | 4.5% |
| Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | 4 | 3.6% |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 3 | 2.7% |
| Department for Transport | 3 | 2.7% |
Most recent
| Date | Department | Question | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sept 2025 | Department for Work and Pensions | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the availability of residential training places for disabled young people in Scotland on proposed changes to eligibility for Univer… | Answered |
| 11 Jul 2025 | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology | To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will hold discussions with X.com on the potential impact of the output of its Grok AI on community safety. | Answered |
| 09 Jul 2025 | Cabinet Office | To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to continue to use X.com as a platform for government communications. | Answered |
| 08 Jul 2025 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many consular cases involving violent crime his Department has dealt with in St Lucia in each of the last five years. | Answered |
| 08 Jul 2025 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many consular cases involving violent crime against British tourists his Department has dealt with for customers of Tui Group. | Answered |
| 01 Jul 2025 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of (a) prosecutions of opposition party leaders and (b) levels of repre… | Answered |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Cabinet Office | To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to clause 6(a) of the UK-USA Economic and Prosperity Deal, published on 8 May 2025, if he will make it his policy to bar Chinese companies with links to forced labour in Xinjiang fr… | Answered |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of extending the settlement qualifying period from five to ten years on the community integration of British National (Ov… | Answered |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause 6(a) of the UK-USA Economic and Prosperity Deal, published on 8 May 2025, whether she plans to direct Border Force to search direct cargo flights from Xinjiang… | Answered |
| 02 Jun 2025 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to protect Jewish communities from terrorist attacks. | Answered |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of legislation covering hate crimes at providing police with sufficient powers to pursue incidents that occur on soci… | Answered |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Home Office | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider extending statutory regulations so that all social media platforms are covered by legislation on hate crime. | Answered |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Chinese counterpart on the release of Dr Wang Bingzhang. | Answered |
| 08 Apr 2025 | Scotland Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that Scotland benefits from nuclear energy developments in the UK. | Answered |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding the Government plans to provide to Regional Co-operation in Accounting for Missing Persons in the Western Balkans (The Missing Person Group) of th… | Answered |
E · Committees
No committee memberships recorded for this MP.
F · Expenses
Every business-cost claim reimbursed by IPSA in the current financial year, grouped by category. “Aggregated” rows are IPSA’s own year-end totals for cost types like payroll and rent that aren’t itemised claim-by-claim.
Category breakdown
| Category | Claims | Paid (£) | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office Costs | 111 | 25,725 | 13.8% |
| Accommodation | 23 | 18,208 | 9.8% |
| Staffing | 2 | 122,869 | 66.0% |
| Miscellaneous | 1 | 560 | 0.3% |
| MP Travel | 0 | 14,534 | 7.8% |
| Dependant Travel | 0 | 193 | 0.1% |
| Staff Travel | 0 | 4,116 | 2.2% |
Top itemised cost types
| Cost type | Category | Claims | Paid (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rent | Accommodation | 6 | 14,245 |
| Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | Office Costs | 10 | 7,918 |
| Stationery & printing | Office Costs | 69 | 7,712 |
| Hotel - London | Accommodation | 7 | 3,307 |
| Equipment - purchase | Office Costs | 11 | 2,578 |
| Software & applications | Office Costs | 4 | 2,403 |
| Pooled staffing services | Staffing | 1 | 2,300 |
| Rent | Office Costs | 5 | 2,250 |
| Website hosting and design | Office Costs | 1 | 1,500 |
| Training - staff | Staffing | 1 | 1,500 |
| Bought-in services | Office Costs | 5 | 900 |
| Removals | Miscellaneous | 1 | 560 |
Most recent
| Date | Category | Description | Paid (£) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 1,170 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 820 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 820 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 820 | Paid |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | XMA March 2025 | 668 | Paid |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Office Costs Rent | Rent | 750 | Paid |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | EVM LTD [200011725-9759] | 1,467 | Paid |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Rent | 2024-25 [***] rent pro-rata | -750 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | VALLANCE DISCOUNT CARP [200011725-7222] | 1,597 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | carpet fitting to new office | 680 | Paid |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | AMAZON [***] [200011725-7223] | 30 | Paid |
| 23 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | WWW.AMAZON. [***] [200011725-7136] | 33 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | Banner March 2025 | 294 | Paid |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Hospitality | Banner March 2025 | 1 | Paid |
| 19 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Website hosting and design | https://montpellier-bice.vercel.app/ | 1,500 | Paid |
| 17 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Advertising and contact cards | AGA PRINT LTD [200011725-4764] | 48 | Paid |
| 16 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Software & applications | CANVA [***] [200011725-6802] | 100 | Paid |
| 14 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | B&Q LTD [200011725-5724] | 50 | Paid |
| 10 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Equipment - purchase | Office furniture | 42 | Paid |
| 10 Mar 2025 | Office Costs Stationery & printing | AMAZON [***] [200011725-4272] | 24 | Paid |
G · Register of interests
Every financial interest declared by the MP, grouped under the Register’s official categories. Retracted entries are hidden but counted above.
8. Miscellaneous7 entries
17 Jun 2025
Membership of Advisory Board to Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes
Date interest arose: 30 May 2025
(Registered 16 June 2025)
17 Jun 2025
Member of board of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 3 June 2025
(Registered 7 June 2025)
25 Mar 2025
Appointment as a patron of Hong Kong Watch.
Date interest arose: 10 March 2025
(Registered 14 March 2025)
25 Feb 2025
Member of Eastwood Scouts District Council. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 27 January 2025
(Registered 5 February 2025)
25 Feb 2025
Member of the Executive Committee of the British Group of the Interparliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 28 January 2025
(Registered 5 February 2025)
16 Aug 2024
Unpaid Director of Uyghur Campaign Ltd.
(Registered 31 July 2024)
16 Aug 2024
Chair of Stop Uyghur Genocide Charity. This is an unpaid role.
(Registered 31 July 2024)
H · Ward results
Most recent winning councillor in each ward — 5 wards, 18 councillor seats.
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Votes | Election |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrhead Liboside Uplawmoor | Angela Convery | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 1,639 | 05 May 2022 |
| Barrhead Liboside Uplawmoor | Betty Cunningham | Labour Party | 1,355 | 05 May 2022 |
| Barrhead Liboside Uplawmoor | Chris Lunday | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 616 | 05 May 2022 |
| Barrhead Liboside Uplawmoor | Danny Devlin | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,753 | 05 May 2022 |
| Clarkston Netherlee Williamwood | Annette Ireland | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 2,119 | 05 May 2022 |
| Clarkston Netherlee Williamwood | David Macdonald | Independent Berwick Hills Resident | 1,407 | 05 May 2022 |
| Clarkston Netherlee Williamwood | Kate Campbell | Conservative and Unionist Party | 1,692 | 05 May 2022 |
| Clarkston Netherlee Williamwood | Katie Pragnell | Labour Party | 1,647 | 05 May 2022 |
| Giffnock Thornliebank | Colm Merrick | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 1,888 | 05 May 2022 |
| Giffnock Thornliebank | Gordon Wallace | Conservative and Unionist Party | 1,816 | 05 May 2022 |
| Giffnock Thornliebank | Mary Montague | Labour Party | 1,608 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Means North Neilston | Andy Morrison | Conservative and Unionist Party | 1,579 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Means North Neilston | Owen O'Donnell | Labour Party | 1,532 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Means North Neilston | Tony Buchanan | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 1,938 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Mearns South Eaglesham | Andrew Anderson | Labour Party | 1,831 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Mearns South Eaglesham | Caroline Bamforth | Scottish National Party (SNP) | 2,325 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Mearns South Eaglesham | Jim McLean | Conservative and Unionist Party | 1,584 | 05 May 2022 |
| Newton Mearns South Eaglesham | Paul Edlin | Conservative and Unionist Party | 2,016 | 05 May 2022 |
I · Demographics
| Indicator | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Median weekly pay | £631 | ASHE |
J · Public spending
HMT publishes headline spending identifiable by region in PESA. Constituency-level capital allocations (Levelling-Up Fund, Towns Fund, UKSPF, transport capital, BEIS R&D) are published as separate departmental datasets. We are evaluating the cleanest reconciliation for a per-constituency view.