At a glanceJess Asato is a Labour MP for Lowestoft, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 456 votes in Commons divisions (79% attendance), tabled 169 written questions and registered 4 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Jess Asato did not vote in 119. 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
- Education Committee Committee since 21 Oct 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Lowestoft Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 436 of 436 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 429 of 429 shared votes
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Lola McEvoy
Labour
100.0% · 425 of 425 shared votes
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Paul Waugh
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 419 of 419 shared votes
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Daniel Francis
Labour
100.0% · 417 of 417 shared votes
Votes least like
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.4% · 1 of 227 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 278 shared votes
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Mark Garnier
Conservative
1.2% · 4 of 331 shared votes
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Sir Oliver Dowden
Conservative
1.3% · 4 of 303 shared votes
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Kevin Hollinrake
Conservative
1.4% · 4 of 283 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.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP1
- Francesca Perrin - £25,000.00 (registered 6 Jul 2026)
Miscellaneous3
- I have a conditional fee arrangement with my lawyers, AWO (the trading name of HNK Litigation Limited) in relation to a forthcoming court case against xAI. The case relates to the ‘Grok’ AI platform operated by xAI. I have additional support from Reset Tech which is dependent on the outcome of the case. (registered 1 Jun 2026)
- Appointed as a Director for The Social Market Foundation (SMF) which is widely recognised as Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. Its mission is to ensure that markets and government can work in partnership to serve the interests of society. The SMF pursues this goal by producing high-quality, independent, and pragmatic public policy research and fostering debate across a broad range of social and economic issues. (registered 25 Mar 2025)
- Trustee of The Dartmouth Street Trust, which makes grants for the promotion of studies in political, economic and social science and cognate educational subjects, and for the promotion of education and dissemination of knowledge in such science and subjects. (registered 30 Sep 2024)
Written questions
Internet: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on whether Ofcom has established whether Meta carried out a risk assessment before the recent roll out of its new AI image-generation feature; an
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
It is essential that AI providers keep users safe. The Online Safety Act requires regulated services to assess and mitigate risks to users, including protecting all users from illegal content, and children from content which is harmful or age-inappropriat...
Parliament's Education Service: Finance
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that the outcomes from the Savings and Improvements Programme adequately support the continued delivery of Pa
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
The Commission has considered the changes to the education outreach model proposed by the Chamber and Participation Team. These changes have also been considered by the Administration Committee and the Lords Services Committee.The proposed continued suppo...
Chamber and Participation Team: Finance
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the adequacy of planned levels of future funding for the Chamber and Participation Team’s Outreach Team.
Answer · 17 Jun 2026
The Commission has considered the Chamber and Participation Team’s proposed changes to the educational outreach model. These changes have also been considered by the Administration Committee and Lords Services Committee. A formal consultation with affecte...
Women: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has taken steps to support platform compliance with Ofcom’s Guidance, A Safe Life Online for Women and Girls, and what discussions she has had with the Minister for Women an
Answer · 9 Jun 2026
The Secretary of State has been clear that the government expects platforms to implement Ofcom's guidance by the end of the year and has engaged directly with platforms to communicate this message. Ofcom plans to publish a report on platform's compliance ...
Women: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Ofcom’s Guidance, A Safe Life Online for Women and Girls, and whether the Guidance will be sufficient to reduce the risks wom
Answer · 9 Jun 2026
The Online Safety Act provides world-leading protections against non-consensual intimate image abuse. The Government strengthened these by introducing a duty requiring platforms to remove NCII within 48 hours of a valid user report.Ofcom published updated...
Internet: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department plans to allocate funding from Ofcom’s fines to platforms for failure to comply with the Online Safety Act 2023 to organisations working to end violence against w
Answer · 9 Jun 2026
Under the Online Safety Act, fines imposed by Ofcom are paid into the Consolidated Fund, in line with standard practice across its regulatory functions. This ensures funds are distributed in accordance with overall government priorities, which may include...
Artificial Intelligence: Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of AI innovations increasing violence against women and girls.
Answer · 10 Jun 2026
We are determined to keep women and girls safe from the ever-evolving threat of criminal misuse of artificial intelligence. Accurately estimating the cost to the public purse of AI-enabled violence against women and girls (VAWG) is difficult given uncerta...
Intimate Image Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has made an estimate of how much money online platforms receive from image-based sexual abuse channels on their services.
Answer · 11 Jun 2026
Non-consensual intimate images (NCII) are completely unacceptable and tackling this abuse is a priority for this government. Under the Online Safety Act, services must assess for the risk of NCII, take steps to prevent this content appearing and removing ...
Early day motions
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Speeches in the chamber
14 Apr 2026 Crime and Policing Bill
I welcome the Bill before us today. It contains a multitude of crucial measures to tackle issues from non-consensual intimate images to retail worker assault, child criminal exploitation and knife crime. I thank the Ministers for Policing …
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I thank all Members who contributed and the Minister for her remarks and ongoing work on this issue, which forms a key part of the Government’s ambition to halve violence against women and girls. We all very much look forward to working wi…
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I would obviously love to congratulate Newbury Road Club and the other organisations that are highlighting Cycling UK’s “My ride. Our right” campaign, and that have been very active in this discussion about women’s cycling safety. I will c…
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
As a fellow East Anglia MP, I praise Norwich Cycling Campaign for its women’s safety audit. I am sure it is a model that many local areas should follow. In the medium and long term, of course, we want to see real change. A poll conducte…
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I absolutely agree, and it is one of the reasons why I took those University of Manchester researchers to meet the Safeguarding Minister. I hope that, given the VAWG strategy is a living, breathing document across a 10-year period, we can …
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I absolutely agree. I firmly support the idea of a social media ban for under-16s, partly because of the huge impact it has on girls and their body image, which obviously affects the way they think about taking part in sporting activities,…
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I thoroughly agree. Women are often filmed while running, and girls are put off exercise by the way that men create this material, which can go viral. We have seen recently that men have been using smart glasses to film women in public spa…
27 Jan 2026 Women’s Safety: Walking, Wheeling, Cycling and Running
I beg to move, That this House has considered women’s safety while walking, wheeling, cycling and running. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. Violence against women and girls happens in every corner of life: …
22 Jan 2026 Business of the House
I recently visited Community Dental Services in my constituency, which is supporting the roll-out of our very welcome supervised toothbrushing in schools programme. As we know, dental decay is the leading cause of hospital admissions for y…
20 Jan 2026 Domestic Abuse-related Deaths: NHS Prevention
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Dr Opher) for securing this debate on such an important issue. In 2022, 44% of victims surveyed by the Domestic Abuse Commissione…
12 Jan 2026 Social Media: Non-consensual Sexual Deepfakes
Having campaigned for a ban on nudification apps, I hugely welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement today. We have all seen how AI has been used to humiliate and sexualise women, with bullet holes, blood, gagging, bruising, and even t…
8 Jan 2026 Business of the House
A happy new year to you and your staff, Mr Speaker. Like many Members across this House, I receive regular alerts from the Environment Agency warning of potential flooding in my constituency. Every time the phone rings, I get the feelin…
18 Dec 2025 Violence against Women and Girls Strategy
I would like to make the House aware of my appointment as the VAWG adviser to the Secretary of State for Health, and it is the commitments made by the Department of Health and Social Care in this transformative strategy that I wish to rais…
10 Dec 2025 Pornography and Violence against Women
On the final day of the UN’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, I present a petition on behalf of my Lowestoft constituents on the pornography industry and the serious and long-lasting impact it is having on our society, no…
27 Nov 2025 Business of the House
Earlier this year, I met representatives of Historic England, local historians and community representatives to address the neglect of the grade 2 listed Crown hotel in my constituency. Once a cornerstone of the community and a place where…
27 Nov 2025 Domestic Abuse: Children
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Jardine. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight West (Mr Quigley) on securing this important debate. Domestic abuse does not just claim adult lives; it devastates ch…
25 Nov 2025 Violence against Women and Girls: London
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum) on securing the debate. I am honoured to work with her on the all-party parliamentary group on…
20 Nov 2025 Injury in Service Award
I thank the Backbench Business Committee and the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mr Morrison) for bringing forward the debate. It is certainly long overdue. I also thank former police officer Tom Curry, who was injured in the line of duty and who…
30 Oct 2025 Business of the House
I am delighted that next week a new 107 bus will serve residents in the Gunton area of Lowestoft, following representations that I made to First Bus. However, many of my constituents rely on the No. 99 to get to and from the town centre, a…
27 Oct 2025 Victims and Courts Bill
I absolutely agree that kinship carers, parents and partners are different from those of the primary victim, and they need support in their own right. When we fail those third-party victims, we fail the primary victim, too. We allow them t…
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Frequently asked questions
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Who is Jess Asato?
Jess Asato is a Member of Parliament representing Lowestoft in the House of Commons. See Jess Asato's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Jess Asato represent?
Jess Asato sits as Labour. See Jess Asato's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Jess Asato represent?
Jess Asato is the Member of Parliament for Lowestoft. See Jess Asato's official Parliament profile.
How long has Jess Asato been an MP?
Jess Asato has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Jess Asato's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Jess Asato?
Jess Asato has 4 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Jess Asato's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.