At a glanceYasmin Qureshi is a Labour MP for Bolton South and Walkden, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They have cast 343 votes in Commons divisions (60% attendance), tabled 1,113 written questions and registered 9 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Yasmin Qureshi did not vote in 232. 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
- Courts and Tribunals Bill Committee since 18 Mar 2026
- Bolton South and Walkden Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 334 of 334 shared votes
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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 330 of 330 shared votes
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 329 of 329 shared votes
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Douglas McAllister
Labour
100.0% · 317 of 317 shared votes
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Alan Strickland
Labour
100.0% · 317 of 317 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 224 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 204 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 190 shared votes
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James Cartlidge
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 269 shared votes
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Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 231 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.
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources1
- Silverstone Circuits Limited - £1,400.00 (registered 10 Jul 2025)
Visits outside the UK2
- International visit to Pakistan between 22 January 2026 and 27 January 2026 (registered 13 Feb 2026)
- International visit to Saudi Arabia between 11 October 2025 and 14 October 2025 (registered 29 Oct 2025)
Miscellaneous5
- A Governor of the Board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy for a three-year term. This is an unpaid role. (registered 23 Apr 2026)
- Chair of the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. This is an unpaid role (registered 23 Apr 2026)
- Chair of the Board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy for a term of up to three years. This is an unpaid role. (registered 16 Apr 2026)
- A Governor of the Board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy for a three-year term. This is an unpaid role. (registered 26 Sep 2022)
- Member of Bolton Town Board. This is an unpaid role. (registered 8 Jun 2020)
Family members employed1
- Nadeem Ashraf employed (registered 15 Mar 2016)
Written questions
Agriculture: Pesticides
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of Greenpeace's report entitled Our Poisoned Land and its calls for the Government to help farmers to (a) reduce agric
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
Last year the Government published the UK Pesticides National Action Plan (NAP). It sets out how all four UK Governments will support farmers, growers and other land managers to increase their use of sustainable farming practices to reduce the potential h...
Neonicotinoids
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will commit to ending the use of the neonicotinoid acetamiprid.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
The Government remains committed to ending the use in England of the three neonicotinoid pesticides (thiamethoxam, clothianidin, imidacloprid) that threaten vital pollinators, including through emergency authorisations. Acetamiprid does not pose the same ...
Heart Diseases: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering electrocardiogram screening to under 35s.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The Government recognises how worrying heart health can be for the families of young people. The National Health Service already offers cardiac tests for young people who present with symptoms that could indicate a cardiac issue.In considering whether any...
Endometriosis: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the current criteria for medical exemption certificates for prescription charges to include endometriosis.
Awaiting an answer from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Pigs: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she intends to publish a consultation on phasing out the use of farrowing crates for sows.
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The Animal Welfare Strategy sets out that ending the use of cages and crates is a key priority for this Government. We will be consulting on the transition away from the use of farrowing crates to alternative systems, in due course.
Social Services: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve collaboration between adult social care and voluntary sector homelessness services.
Answer · 8 Jul 2026
Local authorities and integrated care boards share responsibility for undertaking a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), working through health and wellbeing boards, to assess current and future health and social care needs. This assessment then infor...
Homelessness: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of homelessness accommodation providers' reliance on Housing Benefit as an income source on homelessness services.
Answer · 9 Jul 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions provides Housing Benefit subsidy to local authorities to help meet the cost of supporting households in temporary accommodation. In Great Britain, local authorities spent approximately £1.4 billion on Housing Benefit f...
Dental Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data NHS England holds on Community Dental Service activity and referral waiting times for patients with complex neurological conditions, including epilepsy.
Answer · 8 Jul 2026
Data is not held on Community Dental Service (CDS) activity and referral waiting times for patients with complex neurological conditions, including epilepsy.We recognise that certain groups of patients may be particularly vulnerable to oral health problem...
Early day motions
| 17 Jun 2026 | Permitted development rights and commercial developers | 7 sig. |
| 13 Jul 2022 | Outstanding recognition for teaching | 4 sig. |
| 7 Mar 2022 | Retirement of Sir Jason Kenny | 5 sig. |
| 9 Feb 2022 | Cholangiocarcinoma awareness month | 13 sig. |
| 29 Jun 2016 | PROFESSOR MIKE NICHOLSON AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION RESEARCH | 33 sig. |
| 13 Jan 2016 | FLOODS IN BOLTON | 3 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Fleetwood (Lorraine Beavers) on securing this very important debate. I want to speak about a case in my con…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
Bolton South and Walkden.
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
I used to be a prosecutor before coming to this place. We were able to find perfectly good ways of dealing with confidential sources of information—informants and others. There are procedures already in place for that.
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
You are probably aware, Madam Deputy Speaker, of the fact that I have chaired the all-party parliamentary group on Primodos for the last 14 years. The Minister may well be aware that earlier in the Bill’s consideration I asked for reassura…
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
It is on the duty of candour.
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
Will the Minister give way on the point about the duty of candour?
14 Jul 2026 Public Office (Accountability) Bill
Will the Minister give way?
14 Jul 2026 NHS Accountability
Accountability in the NHS must run down to the patient as well as to Parliament. Local Healthwatch organisations provide an independent voice when services fall short. What safeguards will the Secretary of State put in place to ensure that…
14 Jul 2026 NHS Accountability
9. What steps he is taking to improve accountability in the NHS.
9 Jul 2026 Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban
The shadow Minister says that the Israeli Government should stop these settlements, but as he knows, the Israeli Government have put their full weight behind them. The IDF are there when the settlers are doing these things, so on what basi…
9 Jul 2026 Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) on securing this very important debate. Somewhere in the UK today, a shopper will put a box of dates or a bottle of wine in their basket. A fraction of wha…
8 Jul 2026 NHS Corridor Care
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) on securing this debate and on her tremendous work in this area, both in this House and as an emergency doctor in the NHS. I want to begin not with statistics, but wit…
15 Jun 2026 NHS Dentistry
I am proud to speak in this debate. I declare that I co-chair the all-parliamentary group on dentistry and oral health. I have been working on this issue for the best part of a decade, raising it with Ministers in the previous Governmen…
15 Jun 2026 Social Media Ban for Under-16s
I welcome the statement regarding the safety of our children online. I am grateful to the young people of Bolton South and Walkden who have shared their views with me. Children should obviously not be an afterthought at the implementation …
15 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests as a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. I find it remarkable that the Conservatives have raised this urgent question, given that under their watch, real-…
9 Jun 2026 Middle East
Israeli Ministers have reconfirmed what we have all known: it is their intention to settle Jewish settlers in southern Lebanon, as they have done in the west bank and are doing in Gaza. The E1 project will bury the idea of a Palestinian st…
28 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Twelfth sitting)
I thank the Minister for her response. I have made my points—throughout the Committee’s proceedings, I have been making points about the issue of jury trials—and I will not add anything further. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause. …
28 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Twelfth sitting)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause is, in some respects, fairly self-explanatory, in that it provides that cases should not go to the Crown court without being trial-ready. In essence, it is a safeguard…
28 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Twelfth sitting)
I take your ruling and guidance, Dr Huq. I was trying to explain it because the disparities are important and the issue does affect people. I ask the Government to think about new clauses 32 and 33, because they will hopefully have an impa…
28 Apr 2026 Courts and Tribunals Bill (Twelfth sitting)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Huq. New clauses 32 and 33 can be considered almost part and parcel of each other. Our earlier discussion of new clause 29 involved a similar issue, but these new clauses are much more spe…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) · Government Equalities Office 28 Oct 2022 – 15 Nov 2023
- Shadow Minister (International Development) · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 2 Sep 2020 – 4 Dec 2021
- Shadow Minister (International Development) · Department for International Development 10 Apr 2020 – 2 Sep 2020
- Shadow Minister (Justice) · Ministry of Justice 9 Oct 2016 – 10 Apr 2020
Committee memberships
- Justice Committee 30 Apr 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill 7 Dec 2022 – 14 Dec 2022
- Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill 30 Nov 2022 – 7 Dec 2022
- Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee 5 Jan 2016 – 31 Oct 2016
- Foreign Affairs Committee 8 Jul 2015 – 31 Oct 2016
- High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill (Commons) 29 Apr 2014 – 7 Jul 2015
- Home Affairs Committee 4 Nov 2013 – 30 Mar 2015
- Justice Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 30 Mar 2015
- Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee) 14 Jul 2011 – 12 Mar 2012
- Political and Constitutional Reform Committee 12 Jul 2011 – 12 Dec 2011
Previous seats
- Bolton South East · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Brent East 5 May 2005
Expenses
Contact & offices
020 7219 7019
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Yasmin Qureshi, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Yasmin Qureshi?
Yasmin Qureshi is a Member of Parliament representing Bolton South and Walkden in the House of Commons. See Yasmin Qureshi's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Yasmin Qureshi represent?
Yasmin Qureshi sits as Labour. See Yasmin Qureshi's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Yasmin Qureshi represent?
Yasmin Qureshi is the Member of Parliament for Bolton South and Walkden. See Yasmin Qureshi's official Parliament profile.
How long has Yasmin Qureshi been an MP?
Yasmin Qureshi has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Yasmin Qureshi's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Yasmin Qureshi?
Yasmin Qureshi has 9 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Yasmin Qureshi's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.