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Parliamentary History

Independent Conservative

Old Bexley and Sidcup

7 Jun 2001 – 6 May 2010 (8 yrs 10 mo)

Ideology spectrum

83.0

ProgressiveCentreConservative

Conservative — based on 6 coded votes across 1 axes (1% coverage).

Policy axis scores

0 = progressive, 50 = centre, 100 = conservative. Based on coded division votes.

Climate / energy 83

Low confidence 6 votes

Voting trends (most recent 12 months of activity)

Voting record

July 2009 2 votes

Division	Date	Vote
My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton was wrong about one thing. He said that online bingo was taxed at 15 per cent., but the truth is that it is rarely taxed at all, because the vast bulk of it is run through offshore websites that pay no tax in this country. Even if they are subject to European Economic Area regulation, or whitelisting, they do not contribute to the process. They certainly do no...	8 Jul 2009	AYE
Does my hon. Friend agree that there has been some talk in the past 48 hours that if this new clause is passed tonight, the following morning the Government will not be able to collect taxes, the markets will crash and government will grind to a halt? Does he not agree that these are tales to frighten children and that people should decide to vote tonight on the merits of the arguments and not on ...	7 Jul 2009	AYE

June 2009 1 votes

Division	Date	Vote
On the economy, we know what— [ Interruption. ] I am about to come to the hon. Member for Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr (Adam Price) , so he can keep calm. What were his views, along with all the nationalists? They proclaimed the great arc of prosperity that was to extend across the smaller countries—Ireland, Iceland and Latvia. The hon. Gentleman said that "small country success is everywhere...Ic...	10 Jun 2009	AYE

May 2009 1 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Last week, she said: "We will have as much discussion as we can and will try, if possible, to reach agreement on the allocation of time in the full day's debate on Report." That was after we had to accept that we would be given only one day. Again, in response to the hon. Member for Macclesfield, the Leader of the House said: "I have said that we will have discussions to make sure that we can try ...	19 May 2009	NO

April 2009 1 votes

Division	Date	Vote
(1) For the tax year 2009-10 the amount specified in section 35 of the Income Tax Act 2007 (personal allowance for those aged under 65) is replaced with "£6,475". (2) Accordingly, section 57 of that Act (indexation of allowances), so far as relating to the amount specified in section 35 of that Act, does not apply for that tax year. (3) This Resolution does not require a change to be made in the a...	28 Apr 2009	NO

March 2009 1 votes

Division	Date	Vote
The hon. Gentleman, as always, puts the argument so eloquently that I simply endorse what he says. Does my hon. Friend agree—I assume she does, as she will have signed off the information given by the Government at the time of this debate—that if the removal of the free speech clause will not affect the threshold of the offence, logically its retention cannot affect the threshold of the offence ei...	24 Mar 2009	AYE

February 2009 5 votes

Division	Date	Vote
The hon. Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) stood up for his constituency by calling for more resources for Dorset, and I now turn to that point. The resources provided to Dorset police authority have gone up by 47 per cent. since 1997, which is a 12 per cent. increase in real terms. I will come to this morning's report in The Times in a moment, but police numbers in the hon. Gentleman's a...	24 Feb 2009	AYE
Like the majority of my constituents who live along the boundary fence at Heathrow, and like my local borough council, I support the building of another runway at Heathrow. However, as you will rightly remind me if I carry on in this vein, Madam Deputy Speaker, this is not yet another debate about Heathrow, so I shall avoid that subject for the moment; there will be plenty more opportunities. I op...	24 Feb 2009	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	11 Feb 2009	NO
Will my hon. Friend give way? I have only two or three minutes before the guillotine falls. I want to be as brutally honest as the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe. We do have problems discussing this issue in the Labour party: there is clearly a difference of opinion, and it would be wrong for us not to reflect that by debating the issue. However, I do not think that an Opposition day...	11 Feb 2009	AYE
We have had a short but interesting debate this evening, and I would like to deal with some of the issues raised. Interestingly, the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) said that capital expenditure simply is not taking place at the moment. I am glad to say that that is not true; I am sorry to disappoint him, but there is a great deal of work going on, and a great deal of extra capital expendit...	2 Feb 2009	NO

January 2009 2 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	21 Jan 2009	NO
The hon. Gentleman also made a point about pension credit, and I think he talked about the 7 per cent. rate. We have not assumed a 7 per cent. interest rate, if I heard him correctly on this matter. Pension credit rules are more generous than those of the previous minimum income guarantee, and they assume a notional rate of income at a rate of £1 for every £500 or part of £500 savings held above t...	21 Jan 2009	AYE

December 2008 1 votes

Division	Date	Vote
"Commission that we need to provide 1.5 per cent. of GDP for the stimulus package to strengthen the economy". On Monday, the German Economy Minister said that Germany had an obligation to introduce new measures to stimulate its economy. He wants Germany to introduce tax measures totalling €25 billion next year. The chief economist of DekaBank, Ulrich Kater, made the point that reducing VAT would h...	17 Dec 2008	AYE

November 2008 2 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Will my hon. Friend give way? Mr. Deputy Speaker— You have only five minutes. It being one and a half hours after the commencement of proceedings on the motion, Mr. Deputy Speaker put the Question already proposed from the Chair, pursuant to Order [this day]. Question put, That the amendment be made:—	12 Nov 2008	AYE
I respect what my right hon. Friend says; he has significant experience in such matters. As I said, the Government are not convinced that the right way forward is to require the employer to help the union to organise the ballot. A couple of my hon. Friends have tempted me to give undertakings, but I am afraid that I cannot do that this evening. As I said, however, we are always happy to have a dia...	4 Nov 2008	NO

October 2008 2 votes

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"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought...at all times...Whose greatest passion is compassion...Whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." The Bill marks the malign abandonment of those values. By confusing or avoiding the definition of what is, or what is not, human, and by blurring the fundamental and profound ethical divide between ourselves and animals,...	22 Oct 2008	AYE
I want to support amendment No. 49, in the name of the hon. Member for Southport (Dr. Pugh) , and amendment No. 41, in the name of the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) . Both amendments are concerned with proposed new section 3ZA(5) to the 1990 Act and are similar to amendment No. 46, to which I was a co-signatory but which was not selected. In the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001, the Governm...	22 Oct 2008	AYE

July 2008 2 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Retailers would be likely to stop smoothing the impact of oil prices feeding through to petrol prices, as they tend to do at the moment. As well as being based on a non-existent windfall, the Opposition's proposal would make it incredibly difficult to forecast the public finances, given the notorious volatility of the world oil price. On the Government's policy, how much will the 2p delayed duty r...	16 Jul 2008	AYE
Division 265	16 Jul 2008	AYE

June 2008 5 votes

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My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) talked about educating children about food. I pay tribute to the year of food and farming which has made a huge contribution by bringing thousands of children on to farms so that they understand that food is not produced neatly wrapped in cellophane by supermarkets, but grown and reared on our farms. The hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) refer...	30 Jun 2008	AYE
(a) the substitution for paragraph 36(2) of— "(2) The person to whom an application under this paragraph may be made is a judicial authority."; (b) the omission of the words "or senior judge" wherever occurring in paragraphs 36(4), 36A(3) and 37(2); and (c) the omission of paragraph 36A(2) and (5) to (7).".'.— [Mr. McNulty.] Brought up, and read the First time.	11 Jun 2008	NO
(7) If it appears to the Secretary of State that the advice contains material whose disclosure— (a) would be damaging to the public interest, or (b) might prejudice the prosecution of any person, the duty of Secretary of State under subsection (6) is to lay before Parliament a copy of a version of the advice, provided by or agreed with the independent legal adviser, that does not contain such mate...	11 Jun 2008	NO
Division 210	4 Jun 2008	NO
We then come to the claim about abandoning the target for pension credit take-up. That is old news, as we have established before. Last year, we had a stretching target to get 235,000 new claimants on to pension credit. All the indications are that we have exceeded that target, so for this year we have set an even more stretching target of 250,000. That shows our commitment to the poorest in socie...	4 Jun 2008	AYE

May 2008 5 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Question accordingly negatived. 'In section 1(1)(a) of the Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87) (medical termination of pregnancy), for "twenty-fourth week" substitute "twenty-second week".'.— [Richard Ottaway.] Brought up, and read the First time.	20 May 2008	AYE
a foetus diagnosed with, or a child born with, the physical or mental abnormalities identified as a risk by those tests, (b) contact details for, where available, supportive service providers, including telephone help lines specific to the physical or mental abnormalities identified as a risk by those tests, and (c) the offer of a suitable opportunity to receive relevant counselling and such other...	20 May 2008	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. 'In section 1(1)(a) of the Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87) (medical termination of pregnancy), for "twenty-fourth week" substitute "twentieth week".'.— [Mrs. Dorries.] Brought up, and read the First time.	20 May 2008	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. It being more than three hours after the commencement of proceedings on the n ew Clauses , The Chairman put forthwith the Questions necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded at that hour, pursuant to Order [ 12 May ].	20 May 2008	AYE
The hon. Gentleman has made his point, but it bears no resemblance to anything that I was talking about. I am sorry, I will not give way. Will the hon. Gentleman give way? I am not giving way again. I have been a patron of the Family Planning Association for about a decade. I support its aims and objectives, which include preventing women from getting pregnant in the first place, and I regret its ...	20 May 2008	AYE

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