UK Parliament · member 4658
Alex Sobel MP
- Party
- Labour (Co-op) — Co-operative Party, Labour Party
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
- Member for this seat since
- 8 June 2017
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Alex Sobel, and how each was tied to them
Declared interests
MPs must register financial interests within 28 days. This is the register’s own text, republished verbatim from the official Register of Members’ Financial Interests. Registering an interest is a requirement met, not a finding against anyone.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation - £24,072.00 (registered 31 July 2026)
Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
- Football Association Ltd - £500.00 (registered 1 June 2026)
- Music Publishers Association - £1,314.00 (registered 1 June 2026)
- Leeds United FC - £340.00 (registered 12 April 2026)
- BPI - £3,432.00 (registered 15 March 2026)
- BPI - £660.00 (registered 22 October 2025)
Miscellaneous
- Member of Executive Committee of the British Group of the Inter Parliamentary Union (registered 28 November 2025)
- Trustee of Leeds International Aid Fund. This is an unpaid role. (registered 6 November 2025)
- Vice Chair of the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus. This is an unpaid role. (registered 11 September 2025)
- A visiting Parliamentary Fellow at St Anthonys College, Oxford. This is an unpaid role. (registered 14 March 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 July 2023)
Source: UK Parliament Register of Members’ Financial Interests API (Open Parliament Licence). Amounts are shown only where the register itself records one as a figure; nothing is parsed out of the free text.
Voting record
In the 382 recorded divisions where Alex Sobel and at least one other Labour (Co-op) member were recorded voting, Alex Sobel voted the same way as most voting Labour (Co-op) members 379 times (99.2%).
This compares Alex Sobel with other members of their own party who were recorded voting in the same division. It is not a measure of loyalty to a whip: Civometry holds no whipping records, so it cannot say which votes were whipped, and voting differently from party colleagues is not described here as a rebellion. Members not recorded in a division are excluded from the comparison rather than counted, because an absence from a division list is not a vote and does not mean the member was absent from the House.
Donations reported to the Electoral Commission
The register holds no donations reported against this name. Donations are matched on the regulated entity name exactly as the Electoral Commission publishes it; a member who reports under a different form of their name will not match here, and no similar name is substituted.
Source: Electoral Commission register of donations. Reporting thresholds apply, so this is not every sum given. A donation is a lawful, reported transaction; its presence here says nothing about why it was made and nothing about anything that followed it.
Staffing and business costs paid by IPSA
2025-26: £20,220 across 41 claim lines; 2024-25: £332,234 across 142 claim lines; 2023-24: £311,974 across 94 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Staffing | 12 | £12,300 |
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 29 | £7,920 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 14 | £236,910 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 1 | £36,007 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 103 | £33,288 |
| 2024-25 | Staff Travel | 8 | £17,366 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 15 | £8,596 |
| 2024-25 | Dependant Travel | 1 | £68 |
| 2023-24 | Staffing | 1 | £233,576 |
| 2023-24 | Accommodation | 12 | £32,000 |
| 2023-24 | Office Costs | 58 | £31,191 |
| 2023-24 | MP Travel | 15 | £9,189 |
| 2023-24 | Staff Travel | 8 | £6,019 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 November 2025 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 18 October 2025 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CAPCUT | £100 | Paid |
| 6 November 2024 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 17 October 2024 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CAPCUT | £100 | Paid |
| 5 November 2023 | Office Costs · Software & applications | CANVA [***] | £100 | Paid |
| 11 February 2019 | Office Costs · Const Office Cleaning | Office Costs February — ARGOS RETAIL GROUP | £100 | Paid |
| 25 March 2022 | Office Costs · Stationery & printing | INK N TONER UK | £100 | Paid |
| 23 April 2024 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment — CURRYS ONLINE | £99 | Paid |
| 3 January 2018 | Office Costs · Other Equip Purchase | January Payment Card — Amazon UK Marketplace | £99 | Paid |
| 23 April 2024 | Office Costs · Maintenance, Redecorations & Repairs | electricity repair | £98 | Paid |
| 3 March 2023 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Other office equipment — OFFICE MONSTER | £98 | Paid |
| 7 July 2022 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories — XMA LTD | £968 | Paid |
| 19 March 2021 | Accommodation · Service charge & ground Rent | Tenant Renewal Fee 2020 | £96 | Paid |
| 26 March 2019 | Accommodation · Service Charges | [***] [***] Renewal Fee — Renewal fee | £96 | Paid |
| 7 April 2024 | Office Costs · Equipment - purchase | Sundries — AMAZON [***] | £95 | Paid |
Source: IPSA, MP staffing and business costs (Open Government Licence v3), joined on IPSA’s Parliamentary ID, which is Parliament’s member id. These are the running costs of an MP’s office and staff, claimed within IPSA’s rules and paid by IPSA; they are not the member’s salary and not personal income. A claim is a claim, not a finding. Staffing costs are published by IPSA in aggregate categories, not per employee.
Sources on this page: UK Parliament Members API, Register of Members’ Financial Interests API and Commons Votes API (Open Parliament Licence); Electoral Commission register of donations; IPSA business costs. Each section links its own official record. This page assembles public registers and draws no conclusion from their appearing together.