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Lists of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom

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These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union, and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.

Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in 2022.

In 2001, Muhammad Anwar of Warwick University wrote a paper titled "The participation of ethnic minorities in British politics" that was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001) that in part examined the representation of ethnic minorities at national levels of the British political system.^[1] In a chapter in the edited book Race and British Electoral Politics (Routledge, 1998), Andrew Geddes, now Professor of Politics at University of Sheffield, explored the question of "what factors contribute to low levels of ethnic minority representation in the House of Commons".^[2]

According to a research paper from House of Commons of the United Kingdom Library, published in 2020, the first ethnic minority MP was elected in 1767^[3] – excluding Jews, who a House of Commons Library briefing paper states generally considered themselves to be a religious rather than an ethnic minority in the 18th/19th century.^[4] This was James Townsend, a Whig MP who was of one-eighth African ancestry. Townsend later became the first Black Mayor of London in 1772.^[5]

Following the election of Anas Sarwar as Scottish Labour Party leader in February 2021, he was described as the first person from an ethnic minority to lead a major British political party,^[6] which led to debate about why Jewish party leaders had been excluded from this comparison.^[7]^[8]^[9] Stephen Bush, the political editor of the New Statesman, wrote that "As far as British law is concerned, the answer is open-and-shut: we count as both an ethnic and a religious grouping for the purpose of equalities and employment law." He stated: "Whether Benjamin Disraeli would feel today that he were an ethnic-minority Briton is unknowable: but we can say with copper-bottomed certainty that he and other ethnically-Jewish Britons faced what we would now recognise as workplace discrimination in addition to the open dissemination of racist tropes about Disraeli and his family by his political opponents."^[9] The House of Commons Library briefing paper notes that the first practising Jew to sit in the Commons was Lionel de Rothschild, who was first elected in 1847 but who refused to take the Christian oath that MPs are required to swear. He took his seat once the rules had been changed, allowing him to swear on the Old Testament.^[4]

At the 2001 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom had twelve ethnic minority Members of Parliament (excluding Jews), and after the 2005 general election; that number increased to fifteen.^[10] With the 2010 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs increased by nearly three-quarters, to a total of 26.^[11] The first three Muslim female MPs were elected.^[11] All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11).^[11] In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, or 4.2% of the total.^[12]

After the 2015 general election, 41 MPs from an ethnic minority background were elected to Parliament. 25 of the previous 27 ethnic minority MPs retained their seats and were joined by 16 new ethnic minority MPs. 23 were from the Labour Party, 17 of them were Conservatives and one from the SNP.^[13] In the 2017 general election, 52 ethnic minority MPs were elected, including 32 Labour MPs, 19 Conservatives and one Liberal Democrat, according to think tank British Future^[14] and the House of Commons Library.^[4]^[15] In the 2019 general election, this figure rose to 66, with 23 Conservative, 41 Labour and two Liberal Democrat non-white MPs.^[16]

Based on data from unofficial sources including Operation Black Vote, the House of Commons Library estimated in a research briefing published in September 2022 that there were 55 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of September 2022^[update]. Of these, 11 were affiliated with the Labour Party, 16 were crossbenchers, 16 were Conservatives, six were Liberal Democrats, and six were unaffiliated.^[16]

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Liberal	Henry Arthur Herbert^[20]^[21]	Kerry	Chief Secretary for Ireland	1857	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Paul Boateng^[22]	Brent South	Chief Secretary to the Treasury (attending Cabinet)	2002	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Sajid Javid^[23]	Bromsgrove	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	2013	British Pakistani
Conservative	Priti Patel^[24]	Witham	Secretary of State for International Development	2016	British Indian
Conservative	Alok Sharma^[25]	Reading West	Secretary of State for International Development	2019	British Indian
Conservative	James Cleverly^[26]	Braintree	Minister without Portfolio (attending Cabinet)	2019	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Rishi Sunak^[27]	Richmond (Yorks)	Chief Secretary to the Treasury (attending Cabinet)	2019	British Indian
Conservative	Suella Braverman^[28]	Fareham	Attorney General for England and Wales (attending Cabinet)	2020	British Indian
Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng^[29]	Spelthorne	Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	2021	Black British
Conservative	Nadhim Zahawi^[30]	Stratford-on-Avon	Secretary of State for Education	2021	British Iraqi
Conservative	Shailesh Vara^[31]	North West Cambridgeshire	Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	2022	British Indian
Conservative	Kemi Badenoch^[32]	Saffron Walden	Secretary of State for International Trade	2022	Black British
Conservative	Ranil Jayawardena^[33]	North East Hampshire	Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	2022	British Sri Lankan
Conservative	Claire Coutinho^[34]	East Surrey	Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero	2023	British Indian

	Name	Constituency	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
Liberal	Ernest Soares^[35]	Barnstaple	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	1910	Anglo-Indian
Conservative	Sebastian Coe^[36]	Falmouth and Camborne	Assistant Government Whip	1996	Anglo-Indian
Labour	Paul Boateng^[37]	Brent South	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People	1997	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Keith Vaz^[38]	Leicester East	Minister of State for Europe	1999	British Indian
Labour	David Lammy^[39]	Tottenham	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health	2002	Black British
Labour	Parmjit Dhanda^[40]	Gloucester	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills	2006	British Indian
Labour	Shahid Malik^[41]	Dewsbury	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development	2007	British Pakistani
Labour	Sadiq Khan^[41]	Tooting	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government	2008	British Pakistani
Labour	Dawn Butler^[42]	Brent South	Minister of State for Youth Affairs	2009	Black British
Conservative	Sajid Javid^[43]	Bromsgrove	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	2012	British Pakistani
Conservative	Helen Grant^[44]	Maidstone and The Weald	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities	2012	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Shailesh Vara^[45]	North West Cambridgeshire	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid	2013	British Indian
Conservative	Priti Patel^[46]	Witham	Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury	2014	British Indian
Conservative	Sam Gyimah^[47]	East Surrey	Minister for the Constitution	2014	Black British
Conservative	Alok Sharma^[48]	Reading West	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific	2016	British Indian
Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng^[49]	Spelthorne	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2018	Black British
Conservative	Nadhim Zahawi^[30]	Stratford-on-Avon	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families	2018	British Iraqi
Conservative	Suella Braverman^[50]	Fareham	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2018	British Indian
Conservative	Rishi Sunak^[51]	Richmond (Yorks)	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government	2018	British Indian
Conservative	Nus Ghani^[52]	Wealden	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation and Maritime	2018	British Pakistani
Conservative	James Cleverly^[53]	Braintree	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2019	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Kemi Badenoch^[32]	Saffron Walden	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families	2019	Black British
Conservative	Seema Kennedy^[54]	South Ribble	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care	2019	British Iranian/White Irish (Mixed)
Conservative	Ranil Jayawardena^[33]	North East Hampshire	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State International Trade	2020	British Sri Lankan
Conservative	Paul Scully^[16]	Sutton and Cheam	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets	2020	British Burmese
Conservative	Alan Mak^[55]	Havant	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	2021	British Chinese
Conservative	Rehman Chishti^[56]	Gillingham and Rainham	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for North America, Sanctions and Consular Policy	2022	British Pakistani
Conservative	Claire Coutinho^[56]	East Surrey	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People	2022	British Indian
Conservative	Darren Henry^[56]	Broxtowe	Assistant Government Whip	2022	Black British
Conservative	Gagan Mohindra^[57]	South West Hertfordshire	Assistant Government Whip	2023	British Indian
Conservative	Bim Afolami^[58]	Hitchin and Harpenden	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	2023	Black British
Conservative	Saqib Bhatti^[58]	Meriden	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy	2023	British Pakistani

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Whig	James Townsend^[3]	West Looe	1767	1774	Resigned	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Whig	James Townsend^[3]	Calne	1782	1787	Died in office	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Whig	Richard Beckford^[3]	Bridport, Arundel and Leominster	1780	1796	Died in office	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Tory	Ralph Benson^[59]^[60]	Stafford	1812	1818	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Tory	Ralph Benson^[59]^[60]	Stafford	1826	1830	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Tory	John Stewart^[3]	Lymington	1832	1847	Defeated	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	John Stewart^[3]	Lymington	1832	1847	Defeated	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Whig	Alexander Raphael^[3]	County Carlow	1835	1835	Unseated by petition	British Armenian
Whig	Alexander Raphael^[3]	St Albans	1847	1850	Died in office	British Armenian
Conservative	Charles Cecil Martyn^[61]	Southampton	1841	1842	Unseated by petition	Anglo-Indian
Whig	David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre^[12]^[62]	Sudbury	1841	1842	Unseated by petition	Anglo-Indian
Whig	Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke^[63]	City of York	1841	1848	Committed suicide	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Liberal	Henry Arthur Herbert^[64]^[65]	Kerry	1847	1866	Died in office	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Liberal	Peter McLagan^[66]	Linlithgowshire	1865	1893	Resigned	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Liberal	Henry Arthur Herbert^[67]^[68]	Kerry	1866	1880	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Liberal	Hubert Jerningham^[69]^[70]	Berwick-upon-Tweed	1881	1885	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Liberal	Dadabhai Naoroji^[12]^[62]	Finsbury Central	1892	1895	Defeated	British Indian
Conservative	Mancherjee Bhownagree^[12]^[62]	Bethnal Green North East	1895	1906	Defeated	British Indian
Liberal	Ernest Soares^[35]	Barnstaple	1900	1911	Resigned due to failing health	Anglo-Indian^[71]
Liberal	H. F. B. Lynch^[3]	Ripon	1906	1910	Defeated	British Armenian/White Irish (Mixed)
Labour	Shapurji Saklatvala^[12]	Battersea North	1922	1923	Defeated	British Indian
Communist	Shapurji Saklatvala^[12]	Battersea North	1924	1929	Defeated	British Indian
Conservative	Richard Hickmet^[72]	Glanford and Scunthorpe	1983	1987	Defeated	British Turkish/White British (Mixed race)
Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed^[73]	Bristol East	1983	1992	Defeated	Anglo-Indian^[74]
Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed^[73]	Mid Bedfordshire	1997	2005	Retired	Anglo-Indian^[74]
Labour	Diane Abbott^[12]^[75]	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	1987		Serving	Black British
Labour	Paul Boateng^[12]^[75]	Brent South	1987	2005	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Bernie Grant^[12]^[75]	Tottenham	1987	2000	Died in office	Black British
Labour	Keith Vaz^[12]^[75]	Leicester East	1987	2019	Retired	British Indian
Labour	Ashok Kumar^[75]^[10]	Langbaurgh	1991	1992	Defeated	British Indian
Labour	Ashok Kumar^[75]^[10]	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	1997	2010	Died in office	British Indian
Conservative	Sebastian Coe^[76]^[77]^[78]^[79]	Falmouth and Camborne	1992	1997	Defeated	Anglo-Indian
Conservative	Nirj Deva^[75]	Brentford and Isleworth	1992	1997	Defeated	British Sri Lankan
Labour	Piara Singh Khabra^[75]	Ealing Southall	1992	2007	Died in office	British Indian
Labour	Oona King^[75]	Bethnal Green & Bow	1997	2005	Defeated	African American/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Mohammad Sarwar^[75]	Glasgow Central	1997	2010	Retired	British Pakistani
Labour	Marsha Singh^[75]	Bradford West	1997	2012	Resigned due to failing health	British Indian
Labour Co-op	Mark Hendrick^[4]	Preston	2000		Serving	Somali/White British (Mixed)
Labour	David Lammy^[12]	Tottenham	2000		Serving	Black British
Labour	Parmjit Singh Dhanda^[10]	Gloucester	2001	2010	Defeated	British Indian
Labour	Khalid Mahmood^[12]	Birmingham Perry Barr	2001		Serving	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Parmjit Singh Gill^[12]^[10]	Leicester South	2004	2005	Defeated	British Indian
Conservative	Adam Afriyie^[12]^[10]	Windsor	2005		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Dawn Butler^[4]	Brent South	2005	2010	Defeated	Black British
Labour	Dawn Butler^[4]	Brent Central	2015		Serving	Black British
Labour	Sadiq Khan^[12]	Tooting	2005	2016	Resigned to become Mayor of London	British Pakistani
Labour	Shahid Malik^[80]	Dewsbury	2005	2010	Defeated	British Pakistani
Conservative	Shailesh Vara^[12]^[10]	North West Cambridgeshire	2005		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Virendra Sharma^[4]	Ealing Southall	2007		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Rushanara Ali^[12]	Bethnal Green and Bow	2010		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	Rehman Chishti^[12]	Gillingham and Rainham	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Helen Grant^[12]	Maidstone and The Weald	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Sam Gyimah^[12]	East Surrey	2010	2019	Expelled from Conservatives, joined Liberal Democrats	Black British
Liberal Democrats	Sam Gyimah^[12]	East Surrey	2019	2019	Defeated	Black British
Conservative	Sajid Javid^[12]	Bromsgrove	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Kwasi Kwarteng^[12]	Spelthorne	2010		Serving	Black British
Labour	Shabana Mahmood^[11]	Birmingham Ladywood	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Lisa Nandy^[12]	Wigan	2010		Serving	Anglo-Indian
Labour	Chi Onwurah^[12]	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Priti Patel^[12]	Witham	2010		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Yasmin Qureshi^[12]	Bolton South East	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Anas Sarwar^[12]	Glasgow Central	2010	2015	Defeated	British Pakistani
Conservative	Alok Sharma^[12]	Reading West	2010		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Chuka Umunna^[12]	Streatham	2010	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from Labour, joined Change UK	Black British/White British/White Irish (Mixed)
Change UK			2019	2019	Resigned from Change UK, joined Liberal Democrats
Liberal Democrats			2019	2019	Defeated
Conservative	Paul Uppal^[12]	Wolverhampton South West	2010	2015	Defeated	British Indian
Labour	Valerie Vaz^[12]	Walsall South	2010		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Nadhim Zahawi^[12]	Stratford-on-Avon	2010		Serving	British Iraqi
Labour Co-op	Seema Malhotra^[12]	Feltham and Heston	2011		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	James Cleverly^[62]	Braintree	2015		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Thangam Debbonaire^[4]	Bristol West	2015		Serving	Anglo-Indian
Conservative	Suella Braverman^[4]	Fareham	2015		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Nus Ghani^[4]	Wealden	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Imran Hussain^[4]	Bradford East	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Rupa Huq^[4]	Ealing Central and Acton	2015		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	Ranil Jayawardena^[4]	North East Hampshire	2015		Serving	British Sri Lankan
Conservative	Seema Kennedy^[4]	South Ribble	2015	2019	Retired	British Iranian/White Irish (Mixed)
Labour	Clive Lewis^[4]	Norwich South	2015		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Alan Mak^[81]	Havant	2015		Serving	British Chinese
Labour Co-op	Kate Osamor^[82]	Edmonton	2015		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Paul Scully^[16]	Sutton and Cheam	2015		Serving	British Burmese
Labour	Naz Shah^[82]	Bradford West	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
SNP	Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh^[83]	Ochil and South Perthshire	2015	2017	Defeated	British Pakistani/White British/Other White (Mixed)
Labour	Tulip Siddiq^[83]	Hampstead and Kilburn	2015		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	Rishi Sunak^[4]	Richmond	2015		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Rosena Allin-Khan^[4]	Tooting	2016		Serving	British Pakistani/Other White (Mixed)
Conservative	Bim Afolami^[83]^[4]	Hitchin and Harpenden	2017		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Kemi Badenoch^[83]^[4]	Saffron Walden	2017		Serving	Black British
Labour	Bambos Charalambous^[83]^[4]	Enfield Southgate	2017		Serving	British Cypriot^[84]
Labour	Marsha de Cordova^[83]^[4]	Battersea	2017		Serving	Black British
Labour	Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi^[83]^[4]	Slough	2017		Serving	British Indian
Labour Co-op	Preet Gill^[83]^[4]	Birmingham Edgbaston	2017		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Afzal Khan^[83]^[4]	Manchester Gorton	2017		Serving	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Layla Moran^[83]^[85]^[86]	Oxford West and Abingdon	2017		Serving	British Palestinian/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Fiona Onasanya	Peterborough	2017	2018 (Crossed the floor in 2018)	Expelled from Labour, became an Independent	Black British
Independent	Fiona Onasanya	Peterborough	2018	2019	Removed from office	Black British
Labour	Faisal Rashid^[83]^[4]	Warrington South	2017	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
Labour	Eleanor Smith^[83]^[87]^[4]	Wolverhampton South West	2017	2019	Defeated	Black British
Labour	Mohammad Yasin^[83]^[4]	Bedford	2017		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Janet Daby^[88]^[89]	Lewisham East	2018		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Imran Ahmad Khan^[90]	Wakefield	2019	2021	Suspended and later expelled from Conservatives, became an Independent	British Pakistani/White British (Mixed)
Independent	Imran Ahmad Khan^[90]	Wakefield	2021	2022	Resigned	British Pakistani/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Tahir Ali^[90]	Birmingham Hall Green	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Apsana Begum^[90]	Poplar and Limehouse	2019		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	Saqib Bhatti^[90]	Meriden	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Feryal Clark^[90]	Enfield North	2019		Serving	British Turkish (Kurdish)^[91]
Conservative	Claire Coutinho^[90]	East Surrey	2019		Serving	British Indian^[92]
Labour Co-op	Florence Eshalomi^[90]	Vauxhall	2019		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Darren Henry^[90]	Broxtowe	2019		Serving	Black British
Labour	Kim Johnson^[90]	Liverpool Riverside	2019		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Nav Mishra^[90]	Stockport	2019		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Gagan Mohindra^[90]	South West Hertfordshire	2019		Serving	British Indian^[92]
Labour	Abena Oppong-Asare^[90]	Erith and Thamesmead	2019		Serving	Black British
Labour	Taiwo Owatemi^[90]	Coventry North West	2019		Serving	Black British
Labour	Sarah Owen^[90]	Luton North	2019		Serving	British Chinese/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Bell Ribeiro-Addy^[90]	Streatham	2019		Serving	Black British
Labour	Zarah Sultana^[90]	Coventry South	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Munira Wilson^[90]	Twickenham	2019		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Nadia Whittome^[90]	Nottingham East	2019		Serving	Anglo-Indian
Labour	Claudia Webbe^[90]	Leicester East	2019	2020	Suspended and later expelled from Labour, became an Independent	Black British
Independent	Claudia Webbe^[90]	Leicester East	2020		Serving	Black British
SNP	Anum Qaisar^[93]	Airdrie and Shotts	2021		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Paulette Hamilton^[94]	Birmingham Erdington	2022		Serving	Black British

	Name	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
Labour	Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos^[95]	Secretary of State for International Development	2003	Black British
Labour	Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland^[96]	Attorney General for England and Wales (attending Cabinet)	2007	Black British
Conservative	Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi^[97]	Minister without Portfolio (attending Cabinet)	2010	British Pakistani

	Name	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
Liberal	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha	Under-Secretary of State for India	1919	British Indian
Labour	Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos^[95]	Baroness-in-Waiting	1998	Black British
Labour	Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland^[96]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	1999	Black British
Labour	Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham^[98]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health	2007	British Armenian
Labour	Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera^[99]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competitiveness and Small Business	2008	British Indian
Labour	Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford^[100]	Lord-in-waiting	2008	British Indian
Conservative	Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma^[101]	Baroness-in-waiting	2010	British Indian
Conservative	Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon^[102]	Lord-in-waiting	2012	British Pakistani
Conservative	Dolar Popat, Baron Popat^[103]	Lord-in-waiting	2013	British Indian
Conservative	Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik^[104]	Baroness-in-waiting	2016	British Pakistani
Conservative	Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor^[104]	Baroness-in-waiting	2018	British Pakistani
Conservative	Syed Kamall, Baron Kamall^[105]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology, Innovation and Life Sciences	2021	British Indian

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	Name	Year entered	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Liberal	Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha^[12]	1919	1928	Died	British Indian
Liberal	Arun Kumar Sinha, 2nd Baron Sinha^[106]	1945	1967	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha, 3rd Baron Sinha^[107]	1969	1989	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine^[12]	1969	1971	Died	Black British
Labour	David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead^[108]	1975	1994	Died	Black British
Crossbench	Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis^[62]	1977	2013	Died	British Indian
Conservative	Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather^[12]^[108]	1990	2008 (Crossed the floor in 2008)	Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher	British Indian
Crossbench	Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather^[12]^[108]	2008	2024	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn^[109]	1990	2010	Permanently disqualified under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010	British Chinese^[110]
Labour	Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai^[12]	1991	2020 (Crossed the floor in 2020)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher	British Indian
Crossbench	Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai^[12]	2020		Serving	British Indian
Lords Spiritual	Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester^[111]	1994	2009	Retired	British Pakistani
Crossbench	James Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker^[112]	1995	1999	Removed	British Chinese/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick^[12]	1996	2011 (Crossed the floor in 2011)	Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher^[113]	Black British
Crossbench	John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick^[12]	2011		Serving	Black British
Labour	Swraj Paul, Baron Paul^[12]	1996	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher^[114]	British Indian
Crossbench	Swraj Paul, Baron Paul^[12]	2010		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri^[109]	1997	2010	Permanently disqualified under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010	British Indian
Labour	Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos^[109]	1997		Serving	Black British
Labour	Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal^[12]	1997		Serving	Black British
Liberal Democrats	Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia^[12]	1997		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Waheed Alli, Baron Alli^[12]	1998		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin^[12]	1998	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher^[115]	British Bangladeshi
Crossbench	Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin^[12]	2010		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Labour	Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed^[109]	1998	2007 (Crossed the floor in 2007)	Expelled from the Labour Party, became a Crossbencher^[116]	British Pakistani
Crossbench	Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed^[109]	2007	2020	Resigned under threat of expulsion	British Pakistani
Crossbench	Arup Kumar Sinha, 6th Baron Sinha^[117]	1999	1999	Removed	British Indian
Labour	Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich^[109]	1999	2013	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar^[12]	1999		Serving	British Indian
Crossbench	Narendra Patel, Baron Patel^[12]	1999		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids^[12]	1999	2019	Retired	Black British
Conservative	Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe^[76]^[77]^[78]^[79]	2000		Serving	Anglo-Indian
Labour	Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh^[12]	2000		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn^[12]	2000	2019	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Herman Ouseley, Baron Ouseley^[12]	2001	2019	Retired	Black British
Crossbench	Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale^[12]	2001		Serving	Black British
Labour	Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia^[12]	2001	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher^[118]	British Indian
Crossbench	Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia^[12]	2010	2023	Removed	British Indian
Crossbench	Michael Chan, Baron Chan	2001	2006	Died	British Chinese
Lords Spiritual	John Sentamu, Baron Sentamu^[4]	2002	2020	Retired as Archbishop of York, created a life peer in 2021	Black British
Lords Spiritual	John Sentamu, Baron Sentamu^[4]	2021		Serving	Black British
Labour	Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya^[12]	2004	2019	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Diljit Rana, Baron Rana^[12]	2004	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Crossbenches, now a Conservative	British Indian
Conservative	Diljit Rana, Baron Rana^[12]	2016		Serving	British Indian
Crossbench	Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey^[12]	2004		Serving	Black British
Liberal Democrats	Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine^[12]^[119]	2004	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Crossbencher	British Pakistani
Crossbench	Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine^[12]^[119]	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
Crossbench	Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick^[12]	2005		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma^[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh^[12]	2006	2022	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria^[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford^[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth^[12]	2006	2020	Retired	Black British
Labour	Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera^[109]	2007		Serving	British Indian
Crossbench	Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed^[12]	2007		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham^[12]	2007	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher	British Armenian
Crossbench	Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham^[12]	2019		Serving	British Armenian
Conservative	Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi^[12]	2007		Serving	British Pakistani
Crossbench	Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar	2007	2022	Died	British Iranian
Crossbench	Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar^[12]	2010		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Nat Wei, Baron Wei^[12]	2010		Serving	British Chinese
Liberal Democrats	Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece^[12]	2010		Serving	British Turkish
Liberal Democrats	Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin^[12]	2010		Serving	Black British
Labour	Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng^[4]	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Dolar Popat, Baron Popat^[12]	2010		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro^[120]	2010		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon^[12]	2011		Serving	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain^[12]^[121]	2011		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Oona King, Baroness King of Bow^[75]	2011		Serving	African American/White British (Mixed)
Liberal Democrats	Raj Loomba, Baron Loomba^[12]	2011	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Crossbencher	British Indian
Crossbench	Raj Loomba, Baron Loomba^[12]	2016		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Gulam Noon, Baron Noon	2011	2015	Died	British Indian
Crossbench	Indarjit Singh, Baron Singh of Wimbledon^[12]	2011		Serving	British Indian
Liberal Democrats	Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor^[12]	2013	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Conservative	British Pakistani
Conservative	Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor^[12]	2016		Serving	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Rumi Verjee, Baron Verjee^[12]	2013		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon^[12]	2013		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Ranbir Singh Suri, Baron Suri	2014		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik	2014		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Ruby McGregor-Smith, Baroness McGregor-Smith^[120]	2015		Serving	British Indian
Liberal Democrats	Shas Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan^[120]	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Jitesh Gadhia, Baron Gadhia	2016		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti^[12]	2016		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor^[120]^[122]	2018		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey^[123]	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Rami Ranger, Baron Ranger^[124]	2019		Serving	British Indian
Crossbench	Simon Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford^[90]	2019		Serving	Black British
Crossbench	Minouche Shafik, Baroness Shafik	2020		Serving	British Egyptian
Conservative	Aamer Sarfraz, Baron Sarfraz	2020		Serving	British Pakistani
Conservative	Syed Kamall, Baron Kamall^[125]	2021		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Wajid Khan, Baron Khan of Burnley^[126]	2021		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Prem Sikka, Baron Sikka^[127]	2021		Serving	British Indian
Lords Spiritual	Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford^[128]	2021		Serving	British Iranian/White British (Mixed)
Crossbench	Shaista Gohir, Baroness Gohir^[129]^[130]	2022		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Sonny Leong, Baron Leong	2022		Serving	British Chinese
Conservative	Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo	2022		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Tony Sewell, Baron Sewell of Sanderstead	2022		Serving	Black British
Labour	Kuldip Singh Sahota, Baron Sahota	2022		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Shaun Bailey, Baron Bailey of Paddington	2023		Serving	Black British
Conservative	Kulveer Ranger, Baron Ranger of Northwood	2023		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Ayesha Hazarika, Baroness Hazarika	2024		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Gerald Shamash, Baron Shamash	2024		Serving	British Iraqi

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Labour	Mark Hendrick^[12]	Central Lancashire	1994	1999	Defeated	British Somali/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Nirj Deva^[75]^[131]	South East England	1999	2019	Defeated	British Sri Lankan
Conservative	Bashir Khanbhai	East of England	1999	2004	Retired	British Indian
Labour	Neena Gill^[131]	West Midlands	1999	2009	Defeated	British Indian
Labour	Neena Gill^[131]	West Midlands	2014	2020	Post abolished	British Indian
Labour	Claude Moraes^[131]	London	1999	2020	Post abolished	British Indian
Liberal Democrats	Sajjad Karim	North West England	2004	2006 (Crossed the floor in 2006)	Left Liberal Democrats, joined Conservative Party	British Pakistani
Conservative	Sajjad Karim	North West England	2006	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
Conservative	Syed Kamall^[131]	London	2005	2019	Defeated	British Indian
UKIP	Amjad Bashir^[132]	Yorkshire and the Humber	2014	2015 (Crossed the floor in 2015)	Left UKIP, joined Conservative Party	British Pakistani
Conservative	Amjad Bashir^[132]	Yorkshire and the Humber	2015	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
Labour	M. Afzal Khan	North West England	2014	2017	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton	British Pakistani
UKIP	Steven Woolfe	North West England	2014	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Left UKIP, became an Independent	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Independent			2016	2018 (Crossed the floor in 2018)	Joined Conservative Party
Conservative			2018	2019	Retired
Labour	Wajid Khan	North West England	2017	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
Conservative	Nosheena Mobarik	Scotland	2017	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
Liberal Democrats	Dinesh Dhamija	London	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Indian
Brexit Party	Benyamin Habib	London	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
Brexit Party	Christina Jordan	South West England	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Malaysian
Green	Magid Magid	Yorkshire and the Humber	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Somali
Liberal Democrats	Shaffaq Mohammed	Yorkshire and the Humber	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
Brexit Party	Louis Stedman-Bryce	Scotland	2019	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from the Brexit Party	Black British^[133]^[134]/White British (Mixed)
Independent	Louis Stedman-Bryce	Scotland	2019	2020	Post abolished	Black British^[133]^[134]/White British (Mixed)

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Labour	David Lammy	London-wide	2000	2000	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Tottenham	Black British
Labour	Trevor Phillips	London-wide	2000	2003	Resigned	Black British
Labour	Jennette Arnold^[4]	North East	2000	2021	Retired	Black British
Labour	Murad Qureshi^[12]	London-wide	2004	2016	Defeated	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	James Cleverly^[12]	Bexley and Bromley	2008	2016	Retired to become Member of Parliament for Braintree	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Navin Shah^[4]	Brent and Harrow	2008	2021	Retired	British Indian
Labour	Onkar Sahota^[4]	Ealing and Hillingdon	2012		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Kemi Badenoch^[12]	London-wide	2015	2017	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden	Black British
Conservative	Shaun Bailey^[4]	London-wide	2016		Serving	Black British
Labour	Unmesh Desai^[4]	City and East	2016		Serving	British Indian
Labour Co-op	Florence Eshalomi^[4]	Lambeth and Southwark	2016	2021	Retired to become Member of Parliament for Vauxhall	Black British
UKIP	David Kurten^[135]	London-wide	2016	2021	Defeated	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Marina Ahmad	Lambeth and Southwark	2021		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Liberal Democrats	Hina Bokhari	London-wide	2021		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Krupesh Hirani	Brent and Harrow	2021		Serving	British Indian
Labour	Sem Moema	North East	2021		Serving	Black British
Labour	Sakina Sheikh	London-wide	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
SNP	Bashir Ahmad^[136]	Glasgow	2007	2009	Died in office	British Pakistani
Labour	Hanzala Malik^[137]	Glasgow	2011	2016	Defeated	British Pakistani/White British (Mixed)
SNP	Humza Yousaf^[138]	Glasgow	2011		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Anas Sarwar^[137]	Glasgow	2016		Serving	British Pakistani
Labour	Foysol Choudhury^[139]	Lothian	2021		Serving	British Bangladeshi
Conservative	Pam Gosal	West Scotland	2021		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Sandesh Gulhane	Glasgow	2021		Serving	British Indian
SNP	Kaukab Stewart^[140]	Glasgow	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Plaid Cymru	Mohammad Asghar^[4]^[19]	South Wales East	2007	2009 (Crossed the floor in 2009)	Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party	British Pakistani
Conservative	Mohammad Asghar^[4]^[19]	South Wales East	2009	2020	Died in office	British Pakistani
Labour	Vaughan Gething^[4]^[19]	Cardiff South and Penarth	2011		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Conservative	Altaf Hussain^[141]	South Wales West	2015	2016	Defeated	British Indian
Conservative	Altaf Hussain^[141]	South Wales West	2021		Serving	British Indian
Conservative	Natasha Asghar^[142]	South Wales East	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Labour		Hardyal Dhindsa^[144]	Derbyshire	2016	2021	Defeated	British Indian
	Conservative		Festus Akinbusoye^[145]	Bedfordshire	2021		Serving	Black British

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
Independent	Lufthar Rahman	Mayor of Tower Hamlets	2010	2014 (Crossed the floor in 2014)	Created Tower Hamlets First	British Bangladeshi
Tower Hamlets First			2014	2015	Election court found corrupt or illegal practices and removed from office
Aspire			2022		Serving
Labour	Sadiq Khan	Mayor of London	2016		Serving	British Pakistani^[146]
Labour	Marvin Rees	Mayor of Bristol	2016		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
Labour	Rokhsana Fiaz	Mayor of Newham	2018		Serving	British Pakistani^[147]
Labour	Joanne Anderson	Mayor of Liverpool	2021	2023	Office abolished	Black British