UK Parliament · member 632
Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP
- Party
- Labour (Co-op) — Co-operative Party, Labour Party
- Constituency
- Lothian East
- Member for this seat since
- 4 July 2024
- In the records
- Every register entry that names Mr Douglas Alexander, 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.
Land and property (within or outside the UK)
- Property in East Lothian (registered 29 July 2024)
- Property in Argyll (registered 29 July 2024)
Miscellaneous
- Political Co-Chair of Scottish Labour’s 2026 Scottish Election Campaign. This is a part time and unpaid role. (registered 17 September 2025)
- The Ditchley Foundation - Governor (registered 29 July 2024)
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 270 recorded divisions where Mr Douglas Alexander and at least one other Labour (Co-op) member were recorded voting, Mr Douglas Alexander voted the same way as most voting Labour (Co-op) members 268 times (99.3%).
This compares Mr Douglas Alexander 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: £21,963 across 31 claim lines; 2024-25: £91,911 across 63 claim lines; 2015-16: £58,383 across 43 claim lines.
| Year | Category | Claim lines | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Office Costs | 24 | £15,471 |
| 2025-26 | Accommodation | 7 | £6,493 |
| 2024-25 | Staffing | 3 | £58,163 |
| 2024-25 | Office Costs | 46 | £16,413 |
| 2024-25 | MP Travel | 5 | £10,732 |
| 2024-25 | Accommodation | 7 | £4,885 |
| 2024-25 | Dependant Travel | 2 | £1,718 |
| 2015-16 | Winding Up | 33 | £51,274 |
| 2015-16 | Staffing | 1 | £5,223 |
| 2015-16 | Office Costs | 8 | £1,351 |
| 2015-16 | Travel | 1 | £534 |
| Date | Category | Description | Paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 February 2015 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs Feb - March 2 — Virgin Media | £100 | Paid |
| 13 August 2012 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs August — Virgin Media | £99 | Paid |
| 15 August 2011 | Office Costs · Const Office Electricity | Office Costs Sept 6th — Abbey Mill Busines Centre [***] | £99 | Paid |
| 21 December 2010 | Office Costs · Const Office Electricity | CORE | £99 | Paid |
| 25 March 2013 | Office Costs · Const Office Electricity | Office Cost March - Year End — Abbey Mill Business Centre - [***] | £99 | Paid |
| 11 July 2012 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs - July 1 — Virgin Media | £98 | Paid |
| 11 December 2012 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs November — Virgin Media | £98 | Paid |
| 11 June 2013 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs May/June/July — Virgin Media | £98 | Paid |
| 31 March 2013 | Staffing · Payroll | Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year — Total payroll costs for the 2012-13 year | £96,038 | Paid |
| 12 November 2012 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Cost November 1 — Virgin Media | £97 | Paid |
| 11 January 2012 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs 1 January — Virgin Media | £96 | Paid |
| 13 October 2014 | Office Costs · Const Office Tel. Usage/Rental | Office Costs Oct/Nov — Virgin Media | £96 | Paid |
| 15 June 2013 | Office Costs · Stationery Purchase | Banner — HP LASERJET CC532A YELLOW | £95 | Paid |
| 15 June 2013 | Office Costs · Stationery Purchase | Banner — HP LASERJET CC533A MAGENTA | £95 | Paid |
| 15 June 2013 | Office Costs · Stationery Purchase | Banner — HP LASERJET CC531A CYAN | £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.
Government posts, as Parliament records them
4 government posts since 2010 in Parliament’s record for this member, with the dates and the department it gives. A post is an appointment; nothing here says how it was discharged.
| Post | Department | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary of State for Scotland | Scotland Office | 5 September 2025 | still held |
| Minister of State (Cabinet Office) | Cabinet Office | 10 February 2025 | 5 September 2025 |
| Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) | Department for Business and Trade | 6 July 2024 | 5 September 2025 |
| Secretary of State for International Development | Department for International Development | 28 June 2007 | 6 May 2010 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API (Open Parliament Licence), the member’s own biography record. Posts before May 2010 are not loaded.
Meetings recorded in departmental transparency returns
132 meetings recorded as a minister in the returns of Department for Business and Trade. Each line is shown here only because the minister named in the department’s file was exactly one person in Parliament’s register of government posts at the time (or, for a title such as “Prime Minister”, the one holder of that post on that date).
Source: each department’s “ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings” return on GOV.UK (Open Government Licence v3), read by Civometry and listed under ministerial transparency. A recorded meeting establishes that the department published the line; it does not establish what was said or what followed. Every meeting is on the member’s graph page.
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.