Elected in 2017, Preet Kaur Gill is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston, Parliamentary Private Secretary for Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds, and the UK’s first female Sikh MP. Preet has previously served as a Shadow Minister for International Development, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health. 

Born and raised in Birmingham, Preet was a children’s services manager in the city for over 20 years. She was also a Councillor and Cabinet Member for Public Health and Protection at Sandwell Council. She is Chair of the Co-operative Party Parliamentary Group, and Vice-President of the Local Government Association. She is a patron of the West Bromwich Albion Foundation, a patron of Spring Housing and sits on the University of Birmingham College of Social Sciences 2030 Strategy Advisory Board. She is Chair of Labour Friends of Commonwealth.

In 2018, Preet featured on Birmingham City University’s Brummies Who Inspire and was presented an award for Sikh Woman of Substance by the Sikh Women’s Alliance. In 2020, she was named MP of the Year by the Patchwork Foundation.

She has campaigned for regulation in the exempt sector, leasehold reform, fuel poverty, offensive weapons, 3D printed firearms templates and fairness in data collection.