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Mr David Chaytor

Mr David Chaytor

IND Independent Former MP
Last served Bury North (1997-05-01 – 2010-05-06)
22.0
Progressive
18 coded votes
926
Total votes
396
Ayes
530
Noes
0
Other

Parliamentary History

1 May 1997 – 6 May 2010 (13 yrs)

Ideology spectrum

22.0
ProgressiveCentreConservative

Progressive — based on 18 coded votes across 1 axes (2% coverage).

Policy axis scores

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

Climate / energy 22
Medium confidence 18 votes

Voting trends (most recent 12 months of activity)

Voting record

February 2010 3 votes
Division Date Vote
consent. However, I am sure that the Minister will be able to explain. New clause 10 relates to the resilience of critical infrastructure. New clause 11 relates to the resilience of individual properties, households and businesses. New clause 12 sets out the basis for an annual report from the British Standards Institute, and new clause 13 sets out that there should be an annual report from the cl... 2 Feb 2010 NO
Progress reported ; Committee to sit again tomorrow. On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I ask how Hansard will record the last five minutes? I imagine that Hansard will treat the last five minutes as an informal suspension. I am sorry to say that those events occurred in Committee, and I am not able to comment on what happened during the Committee stage. Further to that point of order, M... 1 Feb 2010 AYE
(a) amounts required by virtue of the Act to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of transfer values paid into the Consolidated Fund, (b) interest required by virtue of the Act to be paid on those amounts, and (c) any increase attributable to the Act in the sums payable out of the Consolidated Fund by virtue of any other Act. I am happy to support the motion. Question put and agreed to. 1 Feb 2010 AYE
January 2010 23 votes
Division Date Vote
If the hon. Gentleman looks at his history books, I think that he will find that there was not a consensus about the NHS-very far from it. The Conservative party did not support it at the time, but I shall not take that historical analysis any further. If the manifesto commitments were expressed in those terms, I think that the other place would recognise that the will of the people had spoken. Sa... 26 Jan 2010 NO
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way on that basis. He always dances elegantly between reason and common sense-indeed, he gave a nod in the direction of conservatism, for which I suppose we must be grateful-but I wonder where, in his attack on hereditary power, he sees the monarchy. I did not know that he was a republican and I am rather surprised to hear that he is. If he is indeed a re... 26 Jan 2010 AYE
I feel sure that the right hon. Gentleman has a different, unrelated point of order. Yes, Mr. Speaker, it is a wider point of order. The problem is that many Members of the House find the process extremely difficult to accept in any case. It would be helpful if the Government recognised that an explanation is owed to the whole House on matters of this kind. I am very grateful to the right hon. Gen... 26 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Amendment proposed: 3, in page 1, line 3, leave out clause 1.- (Mr. Hoban.) 25 Jan 2010 NO
Conservative Members continually ask, "Who is in charge?" They do not have an answer. As I have said, we are clear that each authority has its own responsibilities. Amendment 5 would require the FSA to have regard to proceedings for the council for financial stability when considering its financial stability objective. Again, it is unnecessary-I shall mention one or two amendments that I believe t... 25 Jan 2010 NO
Question accordingly agreed to. Question put accordingly, That the amendment be made. 21 Jan 2010 NO
Amendment 20 reads: "leave out from 'customer' to end of line 13", on page 4. The effect of amendment 20 would be to enable the person to carry on trading from the time that he commences a transaction involving selling goods to a customer or supplying a service for payment by a customer, because it would leave out the words "up to the moment when the transaction is completed or aborted". Again, th... 21 Jan 2010 AYE
I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I am conscious of the time. I will be very brief. There was a most welcome written statement today from the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Children, Schools and Families about the family justice review. Would that review be able to consider the important concern that has been raised by the hon. Gentleman? I will have to think about whether it ... 20 Jan 2010 AYE
There is a credibility gap that needs to be filled. That is an excellent idea. Could it not be taken further to improve Parliament itself by having that operation within Parliament-a bit like with the budget office in Congress? That is a helpful contribution. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, would not want me to be overly diverted on to the governance of such an office of budget responsibil... 20 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly agreed to . Clause 1 ordered to stand part of the Bill. 20 Jan 2010 NO
that is, of fixed targets- "makes it difficult for fiscal policy to respond appropriately to the inevitable volatility of economic circumstances." That reflects precisely my argument about the inability to use either the automatic stabilisers, which would be ludicrous, or, more significantly, an additional fiscal stimulus, should the economy deteriorate and the situation worsen to the point at whi... 20 Jan 2010 AYE
I think that it was Francis Bacon who talked about dreams and predictions being subjects only for a chat by the fireside, so I do not want to get into the differences between the two. What I do want to say is that forecasting is not an exact science; it is particularly prone to error when there are major global shocks, as we have seen over the past couple of years, so it is not surprising that the... 20 Jan 2010 NO
My hon. Friend is the exception to the rule, because she has not yet made an intervention, so I am happy to give way to her. My hon. Friend must accept that many of us feel that this approach is simply far too radical a response in cutting the deficit; cuts of about 16 or 17 per cent. on essential services-that is what the Financial Times has reported-will have a massive impact on the British peop... 20 Jan 2010 NO
Division 53 20 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Proceedings interrupted (Programme Order, this day). The Chairman put forthwith the Questions necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded at that time ( Standing Order No. 83D ). Clause 26 ordered to stand part of the Bill. 19 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Clause 24 ordered to stand part of the Bill. 19 Jan 2010 NO
If the proposal became law under a Tory Government, that Government would be wholly in hock to their anaphylactically Eurosceptic tendency, with internal rows about what did or did not require a referendum. I can just hear the hon. Members for Stone and for Shipley (Philip Davies) condemning their Government for not holding a referendum on the slightest treaty that comes around. Even if I did supp... 19 Jan 2010 NO
They would have to ask for it. That raises an obvious question. Why do the Government think that this particular provision is at all desirable or necessary? Can the Minister identify any matter on which the Government may currently be defeated which they cannot bring back before the House at their discretion? No. The hon. and learned Gentleman makes a good point. As for my saying that it did not m... 19 Jan 2010 NO
"taking these first steps towards its stated objective of making Government more accountable to Parliament." Even when the Committee looked at the Bill, it believed it was getting something that we are not getting even in the debating of the Bill. The Committee indicated that "the Government's approach to constitutional modernisation has been a rebalancing of power". Those were the promises that w... 19 Jan 2010 AYE
Those are the very issues that we are looking at. I will table amendments on the issue for consideration in Committee, by which stage we will have further clarity on the points that the hon. Gentleman made. His contribution was important, and I know that my right hon. Friend has also been supportive on the matter. The second notable aspect of the debate was the fact that, for the first time in my ... 18 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly agreed to. Bill read the Third time and passed. Third Reading. Motion made, and Question put, That the Bill be now read the Third time.- (Tony Lloyd.) 14 Jan 2010 AYE
The Bills allow perishable items to be seized, yet clause 8 of both Bills says that seized items would have to be returned "at the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the date of seizure," "no proceedings have been instituted". I want to take my hon. Friend back a few paragraphs in his speech. We have established that, under clause 7(4) of the Bills, a pedlar can claim back perishable good... 14 Jan 2010 AYE
Question accordingly agreed to. Bill read a Second time. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 83A(7) ), 11 Jan 2010 AYE
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