At a glanceAlex Sobel is a Labour (Co-op) MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and has represented the seat for 9 years, 1 month. They have cast 378 votes in Commons divisions (66% attendance), tabled 2,217 written questions and registered 11 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Alex Sobel did not vote in 197. 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
- Human Rights (Joint Committee) Committee since 13 Nov 2024
- Leeds Central and Headingley Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 8 Jun 2017
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Clive Efford
Labour
100.0% · 303 of 303 shared votes
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Mrs Sharon Hodgson
Labour
100.0% · 272 of 272 shared votes
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Peter Dowd
Labour
100.0% · 264 of 264 shared votes
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Abtisam Mohamed
Labour
100.0% · 256 of 256 shared votes
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Anna McMorrin
Labour
100.0% · 252 of 252 shared votes
Votes least like
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 123 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
0.5% · 1 of 220 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 153 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.8% · 2 of 250 shared votes
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Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative
0.9% · 2 of 226 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 sources6
- Music Publishers Association - £1,314.00 (registered 1 Jun 2026)
- Football Association Ltd - £500.00 (registered 1 Jun 2026)
- Leeds United FC - £340.00 (registered 12 Apr 2026)
- BPI - £3,432.00 (registered 15 Mar 2026)
- BPI - £660.00 (registered 22 Oct 2025)
- Knights Tailoring Ltd - £750.00 (registered 6 Jul 2025)
Miscellaneous5
- Member of Executive Committee of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union (registered 28 Nov 2025)
- Trustee of Leeds International Aid Fund. This is an unpaid role. (registered 6 Nov 2025)
- Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role. (registered 11 Sep 2025)
- A visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St Anthonys College, Oxford. This is an unpaid role. (registered 14 Mar 2024)
- A director (unpaid) of Transform Labour Ltd (formally Transform Europe (Campaign) Ltd). This is a dormant company, limited by guarantee, which applied for dissolution on 28 June 2023. (registered 28 Jul 2023)
Written questions
Video Games: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure future online safety regulation does not have unintended consequences for the online gaming industry.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Video Games: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the online gaming industry on its impact on the economy.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, whether his Department plans to provide guidance on the expectations for reliability and planning for de
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, whether his Department has plans to ensure that Regional Energy Strategic Plans support industrial sites
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the ADE: Demand report entitled Powered by People, Powered by Place, what steps he is taking to help ensure that technologies which deliver whole system savings, such as the
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Heathrow Airport: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in preparing the Heathrow Expansion Appraisal Report, what consideration her Department gave to modelling the potential monetised costs of noise pollution from expansion.
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Heathrow Airport: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimates her Department has made of the monetised costs of aircraft noise pollution for communities under Heathrow flight paths exposed to noise above 43 decibels, with reference to the recent Aviation Ni
Awaiting an answer from the Department for Transport.
Food: Labelling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential benefits of requiring food labels to declare levels of potassium and phosphate content.
Answer · 8 Jul 2026
The labelling of packaged foods and drinks plays an important role in helping individuals access the information they need to make informed choices about the food they buy. Food labelling legislation sets out the information that must be displayed on a pr...
Early day motions
| 15 Sep 2025 | Barry Winter | 8 sig. |
| 6 Dec 2024 | 75th anniversary of National Parks | 28 sig. |
| 29 Nov 2024 | Ukraine energy security Marshall plan | 13 sig. |
| 25 Mar 2020 | Closure of call centre sites during the covid-19 outbreak | 6 sig. |
| 25 Mar 2020 | NICE Guidelines on covid-19 | 3 sig. |
| 15 Oct 2019 | Sale of First West Yorkshire | 8 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 Iran
I have long called in this House for the proscription of the IRGC. Last year, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, on which I sit, undertook an inquiry into transnational repression, which found that Iran was one of the most flagrant perpe…
13 Jul 2026 State of Climate and Nature
The Government have produced a global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security report, and I support the call by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Derbyshire (Jonathan Davies) for the analysis to be released in full. The…
9 Jul 2026 Israeli Settlements: Trade Ban
I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests with regard to my visit to Palestine with Yachad. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Abtisam Mohamed) for securing the debate and for her e…
30 Jun 2026 Antisemitism: University Campuses
I am proud that my constituency has the largest population of Jewish students in the country. I was a Jewish student at the University of Leeds, as were my parents. We have had a Hillel house for over 70 years. It provides kosher accommoda…
23 Jun 2026 Puberty Blockers
I commend the Minister on an excellent and brave speech. When the Cass report came out, I was criticised for not accepting it in full, and now the very same people who said that to me are not accepting the Cass report in full. Does he agre…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
Absolutely. If one looks at the geography of Indonesia and its different sized islands, such as Sumatra, New Guinea or Borneo, and the evolution of species on those islands over millions of years, that is what created these unique animal a…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
Absolutely. Unfortunately, that follows a history of 60 years of extrajudicial killings and internal displacement in what are, and have traditionally been, very thickly forested areas. The island of New Guinea, which includes Papua New Gui…
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
As you have made clear, Sir Jeremy, I have a little time, so I start, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on West Papua, by dedicating my speech to our former vice-chair, Lord Harries of Pentregarth, who passed away recently. He …
23 Jun 2026 Environmental Sustainability: UK-Indonesia Collaboration
I was also delighted to see today that that announcement has been made. Is my hon. Friend aware that the five-year delay in passing the regulations has meant that imports totalling 54,000 hectares of tropical forests have happened? That is…
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
On the amendment from the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith), I think we have made some progress with the Minister, but it is clear that trying to isolate the issues around fair trial from other matt…
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
There is obviously a level of complexity here in relation to the data centre, AI development and the network in the UK and more broadly. Will the Minister therefore commit to a meeting with me and my hon. Friend the Member for Cowdenbeath …
16 Jun 2026 Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill
It is a pleasure to follow such esteemed colleagues. My only declaration before I start my speech is that I hold a degree in information systems from the University of Leeds. I have been sat here for the last two hours looking at the me…
15 Jun 2026 Russian Shadow Fleet
I wrote to the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Stephen Doughty), about the remaining licences for Russian fossil fuels—[Interruption.] And here he is. He said that those licences would be ending in January …
15 Jun 2026 Russian Shadow Fleet
I will start by praising 42 Commando for the planning and execution of what could have been a difficult operation. Today the Ukrainian Speaker, Ruslan Stefanchuk, visited us in Parliament, and the all-party group on Ukraine hosted him. He …
15 Jun 2026 Brain Cancer
My constituent Emma has long been committed to achieving justice for people with brain cancer and has been writing to me about it ever since I became an MP. She has highlighted the survival rate of 12.9%. As we have already heard, research…
8 Jun 2026 Water Companies
Minister, we know that our water company, Yorkshire Water, is a dirty business, flushing sewage into rivers such as the Wharfe and the Aire, with children and others getting ill from swimming in them. But is it not also a broken business, …
2 Jun 2026 Preparedness for National Emergencies
It is an honour to serve under your chairship, Mrs Barker. Agility and long-term planning are two essential cornerstones of our preparedness for national emergencies. There are two types of national emergency where we must instil those tra…
2 Jun 2026 Children: Development of Essential Skills
It is an honour to serve under your chairship for the first time, Dr Allin-Khan. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Peter Swallow). It is well known across the House that he is a classics scholar; indeed, he chairs t…
1 Jun 2026 Equality Act 2010: Code of Practice
As a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I have concerns that human rights that have long applied to trans people since the Gender Recognition Act 2004 will no longer apply. I am afraid that that will be the case more broadly th…
20 May 2026 Processed Russian Oil Products: Sanctions
This package of sanctions has come to us very quickly, and I am slightly concerned about how it has been communicated today, so a bit of clarity would be really welcome. How long will the regulations made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money…
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Opposition posts
- Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 4 Dec 2021 – 5 Sep 2023
- Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) · Department for Culture, Media and Sport 10 Apr 2020 – 4 Dec 2021
Committee memberships
- Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation 15 Jan 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Culture, Media and Sport Committee 15 Jan 2024 – 30 May 2024
- Highgate Cemetery Bill Committee 21 Jun 2021 – 30 May 2024
- Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill) 2 Nov 2022 – 29 Nov 2022
- Shark Fins Bill 9 Nov 2022 – 16 Nov 2022
- Highgate Cemetery Bill Committee 16 Jun 2021 – 16 Jun 2021
- Environmental Audit Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 22 Feb 2021
- Monken Hadley Common Bill Unopposed Bill Committee 16 Jun 2021 – 17 Nov 2020
- Backbench Business Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Environmental Audit Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
Previous seats
- Leeds North West · Elected 2 times 8 Jun 2017 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 8295
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Alex Sobel, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Alex Sobel?
Alex Sobel is a Member of Parliament representing Leeds Central and Headingley in the House of Commons. See Alex Sobel's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Alex Sobel represent?
Alex Sobel sits as Labour (Co-op). See Alex Sobel's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Alex Sobel represent?
Alex Sobel is the Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and Headingley. See Alex Sobel's official Parliament profile.
How long has Alex Sobel been an MP?
Alex Sobel has served in the House of Commons for 9 years, 1 month. See Alex Sobel's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Alex Sobel?
Alex Sobel has 11 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Alex Sobel's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.