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The Lord Sahota

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Sahota's full title is The Lord Sahota. His name is Kuldip Singh Sahota, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Lords votes · 2026

162 divisions 4 Content(2.5%) 124 Not-Content(76.5%) 34 didn't vote(21.0%)
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Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the figure above conflates absence with abstention.

Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25

2026-06-18 Child Poverty
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Lister for bringing this debate to your Lordships’ House. I begin by congratulating the Government on taking the historic decision to remove the two-child benefit limit. This is a bold and compassionate measure that
2026-06-18 Transnational Marriage Abandonment
My Lords, in recent months, I came across a very strange case in my community. A couple who had lived here for about three or four years had a child, and they were working and paying their taxes and so on. They then went on holiday to India and took thei
2026-06-11 Antisemitism
My Lords—
2026-06-08 Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Financial Services and Markets Bill, in particular to consider the implications for local authorities, local communities and the people who we are here to serve. At a time when high s
2026-06-04 Local Councillors: Recruitment, Retention and Well-being
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Forbes of Newcastle for bringing forward this important debate. It is a subject that matters deeply to me, not only as a politician but as someone from a ethnic minority background who has experienced these issues p
2026-06-04 Temporary Skilled Worker Visas: Creative Occupations
My Lords, when a skilled worker applies for a job in the UK, he pays thousands of pounds to the Home Office in fees, and then he pays thousands of pounds in surcharge every year to the National Health Service. He pays his taxes, national insurance and co
2026-06-01 Social Housing Bill [HL]
My Lords, I am another former council leader. When I was leader of Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, we took a bold and innovative decision to address the growing shortage of good-quality, affordable homes for local people. Rather than simply dis
2026-05-20 Supermarkets: Voluntary Price Caps
My Lords, first, I congratulate the Government on bringing inflation down to 2.8% and removing the 5p fuel duty. If the Government had a quiet word with the supermarkets making excessive profits of billions and billions of pounds, telling them to take it
2026-05-18 King’s Speech
My Lords, I will focus my remarks on the proposed changes to settlement rights for overseas workers. I recognise the need to balance compassion with control and fairness with sustainability. However, I must express my deep concern regarding the proposal
2026-05-18 Local Government Pension Fund
My Lords, I congratulate the Government on planning to reintroduce the pension scheme for local councillors, which was abolished in 2015 by the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, when he was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the other
2026-04-21 Midwives: Graduate Guarantee
My Lords, given that the National Health Service is always short of nurses and midwives, do the Government have any plans to bring in any overseas nurses and midwives to fill the jobs?
2026-04-16 Local Resilience Forums
My Lords, the West Mercia area has an elected police commissioner at the moment, but we have no elected mayor in Hereford and Shopshire. What is the Government’s plan for devolution here? Will we be offered a mayoral deal to run the police?
2026-04-14 Child Poverty and Homelessness: Asylum and Settlement Policies
My Lords, on the settlement policy, does my noble friend the Minister accept that extending the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain from five to 10 years for care workers and other workers represents a breach of trust? They came here at our
2026-03-10 Equality Act 2010: Section 106
My Lords, what specific measures will the Government take to address disparity in the representation of underrepresented groups in roles across public sector organisations, and how will the progress be monitored and reported?
2026-03-04 Local Government Reorganisation
My Lords, in 2015, the previous Government abolished the pension for local councillors— I believe that the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, was responsible for that. Do the Government have any plan to reintroduce the pension for councillors?
2026-03-04 UK-India: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
My Lords, I speak passionately in support of this landmark trade agreement between the country of my birth and my adopted country. This comprehensive economic and trade agreement represents a defining moment in our post-Brexit trade policy and stands as
2026-02-12 Post Office Capture and Horizon Scandals
I thank the Minister for his Answer. My friend, Kuldip Gill, ran a post office in 1995 in my neighbourhood. He was accused by the Post Office of stealing £5,000. He protested but had to pay. A few months later, his contract was terminated by the Post Off
2026-02-12 Post Office Capture and Horizon Scandals
To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they will provide an update on the Post Office Capture and Horizon scandals.
2026-02-12 Donations to Political Parties
My Lords, I rise with a profound sense of responsibility because the issue before us goes to the very heart of our constitutional settlement: the integrity of our democracy. At the moment there is a growing and deeply troubling perception that British de
2026-02-11 New Homes Target
My Lords, in order to deliver these homes, local authorities need to co-operate with the Government, particularly in preparing local plans, allocating land, speeding up planning decisions, working with developers and communities, and so on. Are local aut
2026-01-26 Holocaust Memorial Day
My Lords, I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Coventry on her moving and illuminating maiden speech. I rise with a profound sense of solemnity and responsibility. Holocaust Memorial Day is not merely a day of remembrance but a day
2026-01-07 Shamima Begum
My Lords, Shamima Begum was only 15 when she left the UK. The UN Commission on Human Rights expressed deep concern about the Government’s decision to deprive her of British citizenship and said that the practice may disproportionately affect people from
2025-11-24 Fair Funding Review
My Lords, what assessment have the Government made of the reasons so many local authorities are failing to meet their housing delivery targets? What steps are being taken to support them in doing so?
2025-11-24 Non-Crime Hate Incidents
My Lords, it will be a sad day when police stop investigating non-crime hate incidents. In the last 10 years, I stood for Parliament twice, and I was the victim of such incidents both times. Non-crime hate is an early warning sign of what is happening in
2025-11-18 Carer’s Allowance: Overpayments Review
My Lords, since the Government halted the recruitment of overseas care workers in July 2025, around 40,000 visa holders who came here in good faith to work in the care sector remain unemployed. What specific steps are the Government taking to support the
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.

Register of Interests · 1 entries on file

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Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)

  • Kuldip Sahota Production Ltd (film production)
    registered 2023-02-08 · amended 2025-07-10
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Party history

2022-11-02present
Labour current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2023-01-312023-10-26
Horticultural Sector Committee
2024-09-052026-01-27
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
2023-01-312024-05-30
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 1 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Customer Service
Subject Group
Vice Chair The Institute of Customer Service 4 2026-04-10
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
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