Seema Malhotra

Seema Malhotra
Official portrait, 2024
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific
Assumed office
6 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byCatherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities
Assumed office
8 October 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byStuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship
In office
9 July 2024 – 6 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byTom Pursglove (Legal Migration and Border)
Succeeded byMike Tapp
Shadow Minister for Skills
In office
5 September 2023 – 30 May 2024
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byToby Perkins
Succeeded byVacant
Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers
In office
14 May 2021 – 5 September 2023
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byLucy Powell
Succeeded byJustin Madders (Business)
Jeff Smith (Consumers)
Shadow Minister for Employment
In office
9 April 2020 – 14 May 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byMike Amesbury
Succeeded byAndy McDonald
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
13 September 2015 – 26 June 2016
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byShabana Mahmood
Succeeded byRebecca Long-Bailey
Shadow Minister for Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls
In office
24 August 2014 – 13 September 2015
LeaderEd Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded bySarah Champion
Member of Parliament
for Feltham and Heston
Assumed office
15 December 2011
Preceded byAlan Keen
Majority7,944 (20.4%)
Personal details
Born (1972-08-07) 7 August 1972
Hammersmith, London, England
PartyLabour Co-op
Spouse
Sushil Saluja
(m. 2005)
Alma materUniversity of Warwick (BA)
Aston University (MSc)
WebsiteOfficial website
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Seema Malhotra (born 7 August 1972) is a British politician who has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities since 2024, and as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office since 2025. A member of Labour Co-op, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Feltham and Heston since 2011. She previously sat on the opposition front bench as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers, Shadow Minister for Employment and a shadow Home Office minister.