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Labour MP Jas Athwal is the biggest landlord in the House of Commons.

This is a list of Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom who are landlords of commercial, residential, agricultural or other property.

Criteria

MPs who generate more than £10,000 per year income from a rental property are required to declare this in the Register of Members' Financial Interests in order to ensure disclosure of interests that may influence their activities as an elected representative. This list includes all those sitting MPs who have declared rental income in this way as of September 2024, though Sky News suggests there may be many more landlord MPs whose rental income does not reach the level required to declare it.

Background

As of August 2024, there are 85 sitting MPs who declared themselves as passing the threshold of £10,000 annual income from rental property. This is 13 percent of parliamentarians in total, compared to 4% of the UK population who declare an income from rental property.

Referencing these statistics, Tom Darling of the Renters' Reform Coalition told the Financial Times that "We must not have a repeat of the situation that occurred with previous rental reform efforts, where there was a suggestion that parliamentarians’ private interests were contributing to slow-walking and watering down vital renting legislation." Similarly, campaign group 38 Degrees has said that "The perspectives of those who profit from renting may be more prominent in parliament than those of the tenants who remain at the mercy of this broken system [of renting in the UK]".

However, in an article in Jacobin, housing lawyer Nick Bano wrote that that "it's too simplistic just to argue that some MPs are landlords, and that Parliament is going to look after its own. After all [...] housing makes up a massive part of the UK's economy, and the government would have an interest in protecting that market regardless of any landlords in its ranks."

Landlords by affiliation

Party		Number of landlord MPs	Party's total MPs	% of MPs who are landlords
	Labour	45	404	11%
	Conservative	26	121	21%
	Liberal Democrats	8	72	11%
	Independent	2	14	14%
	Green	1	4	25%
	Plaid Cymru	1	4	25%
	Reform UK	1	5	20%
	Scottish National	1	9	11%

List of landlords

Member	Constituency	Affiliation		Number of rental properties
				Residential	Commercial	Agricultural	Other	Total
Shockat Adam	Leicester South		Independent	1	0	0	0	1
Sadik Al-Hassan	North Somerset		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Bayo Alaba	Southend East and Rochford		Labour	7	0	0	0	7
Rushanara Ali	Bethnal Green and Stepney		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Jas Athwal	Ilford South		Labour	15	3	0	0	18
Catherine Atkinson	Derby North		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Richard Baker	Glenrothes and Mid Fife		Labour	4	0	0	0	4
Alex Barros-Curtis	Cardiff West		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Saqib Bhatti	Meriden and Solihull East		Conservative	2	0	0	0	2
Bob Blackman	Harrow East		Conservative	6	0	0	0	6
Aphra Brandreth	Chester South and Eddisbury		Conservative	1	1	0	0	2
Suella Braverman	Fareham and Waterlooville		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Ruth Cadbury	Brentford and Isleworth		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Nesil Caliskan	Barking		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Alistair Carmichael	Orkney and Shetland		Liberal Democrats	0	0	1	0	1
Feryal Clark	Enfield North		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	North Cotswolds		Conservative	5	0	1	0	6
Liam Conlon	Beckenham and Penge		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Sarah Coombes	West Bromwich		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Alberto Costa	South Leicestershire		Conservative	2	0	0	0	2
Claire Coutinho	East Surrey		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Geoffrey Cox	Torridge and Tavistock		Conservative	1	0	1	0	2
Ashley Dalton	West Lancashire		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Ann Davies	Caerfyrddin		Plaid Cymru	0	0	0	1	1
Charlie Dewhirst	Bridlington and The Wolds		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Anna Dixon	Shipley		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Florence Eshalomi	Vauxhall and Camberwell Green		Labour Co-op	1	0	0	0	1
Hamish Falconer	Lincoln		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Vicky Foxcroft	Lewisham North		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Richard Fuller	North Bedfordshire		Conservative	3	0	0	0	3
Mark Garnier	Wyre Forest		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Helen Grant	Maidstone and Malling		Conservative	1	1	0	0	2
Andrew Griffith	Arundel and South Downs		Conservative	3	0	0	0	3
Meg Hillier	Hackney South and Shoreditch		Labour Co-op	1	0	0	0	1
Damian Hinds	East Hampshire		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Simon Hoare	North Dorset		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Wera Hobhouse	Bath		Liberal Democrats	1	0	0	0	1
Kevin Hollinrake	Thirsk and Malton		Conservative	5	0	0	0	5
Alison Hume	Scarborough and Whitby		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Jeremy Hunt	Godalming and Ash		Conservative	8	1	0	0	9
Louise Jones	North East Derbyshire		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Gurinder Josan	Smethwick		Labour	5	3	0	0	8
Warinder Juss	Wolverhampton West		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Ayoub Khan	Birmingham Perry Barr		Independent	3	0	0	1	4
Danny Kruger	East Wiltshire		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Katie Lam	Weald of Kent		Conservative	2	0	0	0	2
David Lammy	Tottenham		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Julian Lewis	New Forest East		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Rupert Lowe	Great Yarmouth		Reform UK	0	2	1	0	3
Angus MacDonald	Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire		Liberal Democrats	0	1	0	0	1
Ben Maguire	North Cornwall		Liberal Democrats	1	0	0	0	1
Helen Maguire	Epsom and Ewell		Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0	2
Seema Malhotra	Feltham and Heston		Labour Co-op	1	0	0	0	1
Alex Mayer	Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard		Labour	3	0	0	0	3
Jerome Mayhew	Broadland and Fakenham		Conservative	3	0	0	0	3
Charlie Maynard	Witney		Liberal Democrats	3	0	0	0	3
Perran Moon	Camborne and Redruth		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Helen Morgan	North Shropshire		Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0	2
Ian Murray	Edinburgh South		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Andrew Murrison	South West Wiltshire		Conservative	1	0	1	0	2
James Naish	Rushcliffe		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Jon Pearce	High Peak		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Joe Powell	Kensington and Bayswater		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Lucy Powell	Manchester Central		Labour Co-op	1	0	0	0	1
Peter Prinsley	Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket		Labour	4	0	0	0	4
Mark Pritchard	The Wrekin		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Shivani Raja	Leicester East		Conservative	0	3	0	0	3
Adrian Ramsay	Waveney Valley		Green	1	0	0	0	1
Mike Reader	Northampton South		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Joani Reid	East Kilbride and Strathaven		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Sarah Sackman	Finchley and Golders Green		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Tulip Siddiq	Hampstead and Highgate		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
David Smith	North Northumberland		Labour	0	1	0	0	1
Julian Smith	Skipton and Ripon		Conservative	3	0	0	0	3
Sarah Smith	Hyndburn		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Patrick Spencer	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1
Jamie Stone	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross		Liberal Democrats	1	0	0	0	1
Desmond Swayne	New Forest West		Conservative	2	0	0	0	2
Rachel Taylor	North Warwickshire and Bedworth		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Gareth Thomas	Harrow West		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Emily Thornberry	Islington South and Finsbury		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
Jessica Toale	Bournemouth West		Labour	3	0	0	0	3
Imogen Walker	Hamilton and Clyde Valley		Labour	2	0	0	0	2
Matt Western	Warwick and Leamington		Labour	1	0	0	0	1
John Whittingdale	Maldon		Conservative	1	0	0	0	1

See also

• Renters (Reform) Bill 2023