Janet Daby.

Daby's most distinctive recent actions are three rebel votes on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, where she backed additional safeguards — on independent doctor continuity, devolution protections for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and further procedural safeguards — each time against the Labour majority. The votes place her firmly among those seeking tighter restrictions on assisted dying rather than opposing the Bill outright: her stance profile shows 0% alignment with anti-assisted-dying positions but 63% alignment with pro-assisted-dying-restrictions votes, suggesting she supports the principle while pushing for stronger guardrails. Otherwise she votes with Labour almost without exception — 99.2% party alignment across 366 votes.

Her parliamentary participation sits at 66%, below the Commons average, though her speech record is substantial: 322 contributions across 98 debates, with education, the economy, social care and the labour market dominating. Consistent voting patterns show strong alignment with workers' rights (92%) and progressive taxation (100%), while she scores low on parliamentary scrutiny (19%), Lords scrutiny (0%), and civil liberties (0%) — broadly reflecting Labour's current governing posture. Her appointment as a minister at the Department for Education in July 2024, drawing on a background in social work, sharpened her focus on children's social care and kinship carers, topics that recur heavily in her speeches.

She sits on the International Development Committee. Recent local news coverage — 66 articles in 90 days — clusters around crime and housing in Lewisham East, though sentiment scores are near-neutral, suggesting routine local reporting rather than any notable controversy or campaign. Older coverage highlights her HIV testing advocacy and her public account of experiencing abuse in parliament. Ministerial activity data from her DfE period is limited here, so her current frontbench status cannot be confirmed from available records.