At a glanceMr Alex Barros-Curtis is a Labour MP for Cardiff West, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 484 votes in Commons divisions (84% attendance), tabled 32 written questions and registered 5 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Mr Alex Barros-Curtis did not vote in 91. 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
- City of London (Markets) Bill Committee since 17 Jun 2026
- Administration Committee Committee since 28 Oct 2024
- Modernisation Committee Committee since 9 Sep 2024
- Cardiff West Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Rachel Hopkins
Labour
100.0% · 473 of 473 shared votes
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Paul Davies
Labour
100.0% · 471 of 471 shared votes
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Adam Thompson
Labour
100.0% · 467 of 467 shared votes
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Tristan Osborne
Labour
100.0% · 465 of 465 shared votes
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Steve Yemm
Labour
100.0% · 465 of 465 shared votes
Votes least like
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative
0.6% · 2 of 311 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 307 shared votes
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Mr Mark Francois
Conservative
0.7% · 2 of 298 shared votes
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Mrs Kemi Badenoch
Conservative
0.7% · 1 of 150 shared votes
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Alex Burghart
Conservative
0.9% · 3 of 347 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.
Land and property (within or outside the UK)1
- Property in London (registered 2 Aug 2024)
Miscellaneous4
- Practising solicitor registered on the Solicitors Register. Currently, this is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Director of Myriad Consultants Limited. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Director of Movement for Another Future Limited. This is an unpaid role. (registered 3 Aug 2024)
- Governor, Grafton Primary School, London (I stepped down as Chair of the Governing body at the AGM on Monday 11 November 2025). This is an unpaid role. (registered 2 Aug 2024)
Written questions
Veterans: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has considered establishing a permanent programme of engagement with LGBTQ+ veterans following the closure of the Financial Recognition Scheme.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
This government is committed to ensuring that all veterans, including those from groups which may have felt previously underrepresented such as LGBT+ and women veterans, have easy access to support, when and where it is needed. Late last year, we launched...
Veterans: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions have taken place with NHS England, the Office for Veterans' Affairs and devolved administrations on ongoing support for LGBTQ+ veterans.
Answer · 16 Jul 2026
This government is committed to ensuring that all veterans, including those from groups which may have felt previously underrepresented such as LGBT+ and women veterans, have easy access to support, when and where it is needed. Late last year, we launched...
LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of whether the Independent Impact Panel has sufficient capacity to determine all outstanding claims before the Scheme closes.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 July 2026 to Question 16834 to the hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis). https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-07-08/16834.
LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of representations from veterans who remain ineligible for elements of the restorative measures, including those dismissed before 1967 and those wh
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme (FRS) focuses on providing recognition for the harm caused by the policy Defence upheld from 1967 to 2000, when homosexuality was decriminalised in criminal law. Whilst this approach was recommended by Lord Etherton i...
LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will consider allocating any unspent funds from the LGBTQ+ Financial Recognition Scheme to initiatives supporting the long-term wellbeing, health and welfare of LGBTQ+ veterans.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
Spend on the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme has already exceeded £54 Million. Defence will consider the allocation of any unspent funds against the £75 Million budget once the Scheme has closed and all applications have been assessed. The Department’s ...
Children: Reading
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the National Year of Reading having engaged over 2.1 million children so far.
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
Reading for pleasure is hugely important and brings a wide range of benefits, from increased wellbeing, confidence and empathy to better vocabulary and aptitude for learning. That is why this government, in collaboration with our delivery partner, the Nat...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the impasse regarding the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina on regional stability in the Western Balkans;
Answer · 26 Jun 2026
The UK is committed to upholding the peace, stability and constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in line with the Dayton Peace Agreement. We support maintaining the role of a fully empowered High Representative to uphold this. With our part...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Politics and Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what contingency planning her Department has undertaken in the event that the Peace Implementation Council is unable to reach agreement on a successor or continuation arrange
Answer · 26 Jun 2026
The UK is committed to upholding the peace, stability and constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in line with the Dayton Peace Agreement. We support maintaining the role of a fully empowered High Representative to uphold this. With our part...
Speeches in the chamber
7 Jul 2026 Topical Questions
T4. The £15 billion warm homes plan is brilliant, because it will lift 1 million people out of fuel poverty and, as we are seeing in this heatwave, keep households cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. While that is being set …
6 Jul 2026 Russia: Level of Threat to UK
I associate myself with the comments about George Howarth, whom I knew before I came to this place. He was a brilliant man. As we saw only too clearly this weekend, the threat from Russia rears its head at all levels; it ranges from phy…
6 Jul 2026 Russia: Level of Threat to UK
1. What assessment he has made of the level of threat from Russia.
2 Jul 2026 Historical Forced Adoption
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and join him wholeheartedly in standing with the victims—those here and those who are not with us. As he said, it is another example of the perpetuation of abuse, because there was not just the …
30 Jun 2026 Defence Investment Plan
I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and I particularly look forward to learning more about the uncrewed systems taskforce. When it comes to the Welsh defence industry, though, can he confirm that today’s defence investment plan…
29 Jun 2026 Youth Hubs
I thank my right hon. Friend for that brilliant news, and I hope that they will focus on mathematics skills as well—I could do with some of that. Young people were left behind by the previous Conservative Government, with 13.2% in south-ea…
29 Jun 2026 Youth Hubs
5. What recent progress he has made on the expansion of youth hubs.
29 Jun 2026 Benefit Cap
Question 4, Mr Speaker.
25 Jun 2026 Draft Conversion Practices Bill
I congratulate all the campaigners who have brought us to this moment, including my hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli (Dame Nia Griffith) and the Minister, who has really spearheaded this work in the few months that she has been in the j…
25 Jun 2026 Steel Trade Measure
I refer to my membership of GMB and Unite. I thank the Minister for his statement. I understand the trade-offs he referred to and the need to take measures to rebalance the sector. He knows, because we have spoken about it a lot, that the …
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill
I take the points, particularly from the Opposition, about the speed at which we are proceeding on the Bill today. However, does my hon. Friend—by the way, he is giving an excellent speech—agree that, as we have 17 more working days in thi…
17 Jun 2026 National Security (State Threats) Bill
I want to begin by acknowledging what many colleagues across this House will believe: when a Government ask Parliament to extend their powers in the name of national security, scrutiny is not obstruction; it is our duty, as has been said a…
8 Jun 2026 Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
I am grateful to the Minister for putting on the record this Labour Government’s record on Welsh steel, because it contrasts with the 14 years of ruin under the Tory Government. Their failure to have an industrial strategy caused decisions…
2 Jun 2026 Milburn Review: Interim Report
I am grateful to Alan Milburn for this sobering report. The proportion of young people aged 16 to 24 in south-east Wales who were NEET in the year ending June 2025 was 13.2%, and as the report indicates, that is only modelled to increase. …
21 May 2026 Steel Strategy
Last week, Sev.en Global Investments announced a £100 million investment into 7 Steel UK in Cardiff, a site that I have recently visited. Do the Government agree that that investment shows our plan to prioritise a modern steel strategy is …
21 May 2026 Steel Strategy
10. What progress he has made on implementing the steel strategy.
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
The Prime Minister addressed that question when it was put to him in this House a number of times over the following days. He said that he was trying to secure the answers to the questions that he asked on that evening, and the officials w…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
I completely agree with my hon. Friend. Even if his intervention was perhaps slightly askew from the point I am about to make, it goes to the question of consistency on this issue and many others. As I said, the Opposition party leaders…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s patronising tone, but I will simply say that I do not need to be told how to vote on this motion, because I do not believe that the case has been made out, as I will explain now, if I can make some p…
28 Apr 2026 Referral of Prime Minister to Committee of Privileges
The right hon. Gentleman is very eager. I will give way.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Committee memberships
- Crime and Policing Bill 20 Mar 2025 – 13 May 2025
- Justice Committee 21 Oct 2024 – 17 Mar 2025
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill 18 Dec 2024 – 30 Jan 2025
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 6387
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Transport House, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9HA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Mr Alex Barros-Curtis, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Mr Alex Barros-Curtis?
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis is a Member of Parliament representing Cardiff West in the House of Commons. See Mr Alex Barros-Curtis's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Mr Alex Barros-Curtis represent?
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis sits as Labour. See Mr Alex Barros-Curtis's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Mr Alex Barros-Curtis represent?
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis is the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West. See Mr Alex Barros-Curtis's official Parliament profile.
How long has Mr Alex Barros-Curtis been an MP?
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Mr Alex Barros-Curtis's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Mr Alex Barros-Curtis?
Mr Alex Barros-Curtis has 5 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Mr Alex Barros-Curtis's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.