At a glanceDawn Butler is a Labour MP for Brent East, and has represented the seat for 11 years, 2 months. They have cast 400 votes in Commons divisions (70% attendance), tabled 543 written questions and registered 10 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Dawn Butler did not vote in 175. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
Current roles
- Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee since 25 Jun 2025
- Panel of Chairs Committee since 29 Jan 2025
- Brent East Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 5 May 2005
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Valerie Vaz
Labour
100.0% · 310 of 310 shared votes
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Naz Shah
Labour
100.0% · 273 of 273 shared votes
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Yasmin Qureshi
Labour
100.0% · 244 of 244 shared votes
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Wes Streeting
Labour
100.0% · 168 of 168 shared votes
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Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Labour
100.0% · 130 of 130 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 221 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 270 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 233 shared votes
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Sir Ashley Fox
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 301 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.0% · 2 of 206 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Employment and earnings1
- Speaking engagement - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (registered 3 Dec 2025)
Employment and earnings - Ad hoc payments1
- Payment received on 10 November 2025 - £2,500.00 (registered 3 Dec 2025)
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP4
- Linda Riley - £5,000.00 (registered 23 Jun 2026)
- Felicity Milton - £2,000.00 (registered 16 Jun 2026)
- Supreme Creations - £2,000.00 (registered 16 Jun 2026)
- Jacquie Lawrence - £2,000.00 (registered 16 Jun 2026)
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Residential in London (registered 8 Jun 2015)
Miscellaneous3
- Executive Committee Member of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union. This is an unpaid role. (registered 19 Nov 2024)
- Director and Trustee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch). This is an unpaid role. (registered 7 Nov 2024)
- Trustee of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Mar 2023)
Written questions
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department provides funding for (a) police protection and (b) transport for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Answer · 5 Mar 2026
It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on protective security arrangements, including funding, as doing so could compromise their integrity and individuals' security.
Artificial Intelligence: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer of 9 December to Question 96093, what steps the Government is taking to safeguard individuals from non-sexually explicit deepfakes, digital impersonation, and the
Answer · 17 Dec 2025
Solutions that help to determine what media is real and what is AI-generated are key to tackling a range of AI risks. The government is undertaking work to explore the potential methods for detecting AI-generated content.The UK’s Online Safety Act has int...
Artificial Intelligence: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps the Government is taking to safeguard individuals in response to rapid developments in artificial intelligence, including protecting 1) the general public and 2) Members of P
Answer · 9 Dec 2025
The Government takes the threat posed by harmful deepfakes, including to MPs, very seriously. Deepfakes are captured by the Online Safety Act where they are shared on an in-scope service and constitute illegal content or content harmful to children.Sharin...
Hotels: Taxation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of devolving powers to Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities to allow them to introduce overnight
Answer · 24 Nov 2025
Tax policy is a matter for fiscal events.The Government keeps all tax policy under review.
Tuberculosis: Drugs and Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) address shortages in tuberculosis (TB) medications, including drugs for preventive and active TB treatment and (b) ensure that patients are not put at risk due to dis
Answer · 24 Nov 2025
There is currently a shortage of some medicines used to treat tuberculosis (TB), non-tuberculous mycobacteria, and other conditions. However, as a result of measures taken, the supply position has significantly improved. Supplies to the market were delaye...
Immigration: Syria
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made recent progress on processing applications for (a) asylum and (b) other forms of settlement made by people from Syria.
Answer · 27 Oct 2025
The pause on processing asylum claims and settlement protection applications from Syrian nationals has been lifted. We are working through the outstanding cases in line with the relevant published policy guidance taking into account the latest published c...
Faculty: Medical Records
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Faculty will have access to NHS patient DNA data through Government contracts.
Answer · 14 Jul 2025
No data relating to patients’ DNA is included in the datasets processed in the NHS Federated Data Platform provided by a consortium led by Palantir. Faculty had no access to patient DNA data as part of any contract with the Department of Health and Social...
Palantir: Medical Records
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Palantir will have (a) exclusive and (b) other access to NHS patients’ DNA data as part of its contracts with the Government.
Answer · 14 Jul 2025
No data relating to patients’ DNA is included in the datasets processed in the NHS Federated Data Platform provided by a consortium led by Palantir. Faculty had no access to patient DNA data as part of any contract with the Department of Health and Social...
Early day motions
| 3 Feb 2026 | Together Alliance | 43 sig. |
| 2 Dec 2025 | West London Orbital | 5 sig. |
| 14 Jul 2025 | Mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and action plans | 29 sig. |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Recognition and support for the creator economy | 14 sig. |
| 16 Jun 2025 | High street gambling reform | 31 sig. |
| 6 May 2025 | Legal protection of the nurse job title | 37 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
25 Jun 2026 Windrush Day
My hon. Friend and I co-chair the all-party parliamentary group on women in Parliament. There are many times when we agree on things, believe it or not—people think we do not agree across the House sometimes. Does she agree that not only w…
25 Jun 2026 Windrush Day
It is an absolute and wonderful pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) and her beautiful tribute to the Windrush generation and her constituents. I know how much they appreciate the fact tha…
25 Jun 2026 Business of the House
In Brent, the support staff at Woodfield school face a cut in hours that equates to a cut of about £4,000 in their wages. The school is suggesting that it will fire and rehire them. The staff are on strike. The National Education Union is …
11 Jun 2026 Grenfell Tower Fire: Ninth Anniversary
Justice delayed is justice denied. It is great that the Met has now come to this position. Does my hon. Friend agree that we should try to ensure that the cases are fast-tracked in our criminal system so that justice can now be speeded up?
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
In fact, we are already paying the consequences. If we do not take this issue as seriously as we should now, we cannot foresee the additional harms that will happen. The growth of the involuntary celibate movement—the underground movement …
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
I agree 100%: we have to hit them where it hurts. There have to be consequences. We have laws on inciting hatred in our country, and yet these companies seem to openly and flagrantly bypass them. The leader of Reform gets something like ha…
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
That is incredible. These are sometimes signs and messages as opposed to coincidences, but what is not a coincidence is your kindness and the person you have been in this House. It obviously runs in the family. We need those traits more…
11 Jun 2026 Legacy of Jo Cox
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Rushanara Ali) and to have heard all the incredible speeches today. I thank my wonderful hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley (Kim Leadbeater) for securi…
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
I have been working with the Met police on stolen mobile phones. We are making some progress, but the mobile phone companies need to be held to account. The Met commissioner is now calling on the Government to introduce legislation to ensu…
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
Does my hon. Friend remember when a former Tory Prime Minister gave a guarantee to small businesses that there would be no paperwork to trade with the EU, because they recognised how much of a disadvantage and how problematic it would be?
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
In the time that I have, I would like to touch on two important areas with regards to backing business and creating economic growth. The first is the tourist levy. London is the gateway to British tourism. Of the 38 million inbound visits …
18 May 2026 Backing Business to Create Economic Growth
I used to work in the employment service, and Thatcher encouraged us not to sign people on, and to instead put them on the sick. The Conservatives created a whole generation of people on the sick, just to manipulate the numbers. How do you…
16 Apr 2026 NHS Federated Data Platform
It is wonderful to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. The reality is that the Government have inherited a mess. We must not take responsibility for that mess. I congratulate the hon. Member for Newton Abbot (Martin Wrigley) o…
16 Apr 2026 Housing Needs: Young People
Order. I ask that Members please speak for roughly six minutes so that we can fit everybody in.
16 Apr 2026 Housing Needs: Young People
Order. I remind Members to bob if they wish to partake in the debate.
16 Apr 2026 Neuroscience and Digital Childhoods
We begin with the Select Committee statement. Dame Chi Onwurah will speak on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s inquiry into neuroscience and digital childhoods for up to 10 minutes, during which no interventions may be tak…
18 Mar 2026 Points of Order
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You are also not responsible for the questions asked. The Leader of the Opposition said that it was following British values to attack Muslims praying. I just wonder if that brings this House into disrepute…
18 Mar 2026 Engagements
Q6. At the international conference last week, it was clear that mobile phone theft is international organised crime. It drags in people as young as 14 years old. The Mayor of London and the Met commissioner have spent money on the late…
12 Mar 2026 International Women’s Day
I thank the Government for holding this debate in Government time. I had applied for a Backbench Business debate as a back-up, as I normally do, but now that we have a Labour Government I can probably stop doing that. I need to apologis…
12 Mar 2026 International Women’s Day
Thank you, and you are amazing, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend may be coming to this, but my friend Elaine Banton was the lawyer in the case she refers to. I want to put that on record alongside my hon. Friend’s excellent remarks abo…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Young Citizens and Youth Engagement) · Cabinet Office 30 Oct 2009 – 6 May 2010
- Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) · HM Treasury 12 Sep 2008 – 6 May 2010
Opposition posts
- Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities · Government Equalities Office 31 Aug 2017 – 6 Apr 2020
- Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Diverse Communities) · Government Equalities Office 14 Jun 2017 – 31 Aug 2017
- Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Diverse Communities) · Government Equalities Office 6 Oct 2016 – 1 Feb 2017
Committee memberships
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 11 May 2020 – 30 May 2024
- Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill 1 May 2024 – 8 May 2024
- Education Committee 11 May 2020 – 21 Sep 2020
- Children, Schools and Families 9 Nov 2007 – 26 Jan 2009
Previous seats
- Brent Central · Elected 3 times 7 May 2015 – 30 May 2024
- Brent South · Elected 1 time 5 May 2005 – 6 May 2010
Elections contested
- Brent Central 6 May 2010
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 8591
Parliamentary office
House of Commons , London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Dawn Butler, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Dawn Butler?
Dawn Butler is a Member of Parliament representing Brent East in the House of Commons. See Dawn Butler's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Dawn Butler represent?
Dawn Butler sits as Labour. See Dawn Butler's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Dawn Butler represent?
Dawn Butler is the Member of Parliament for Brent East. See Dawn Butler's official Parliament profile.
How long has Dawn Butler been an MP?
Dawn Butler has served in the House of Commons for 11 years, 2 months. See Dawn Butler's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Dawn Butler?
Dawn Butler has 10 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Dawn Butler's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.