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Parliamentary History

Conservative

Charnwood

3 May 1979 – 30 Mar 2015 (35 yrs 10 mo)

Ideology spectrum

70.9

ProgressiveCentreConservative

Conservative — based on 17 coded votes across 3 axes (1% coverage).

Policy axis scores

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

Economic policy 50

Low confidence 4 votes

Civil liberties 100

Low confidence 1 votes

Climate / energy 75

Medium confidence 12 votes

Voting trends (most recent 12 months of activity)

Voting record

July 2012 5 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Lord O’Donnell was not alone in expressing those concerns. Two other former Cabinet Secretaries voted against the Opposition’s proposals, and even Lord Eatwell, the Labour Treasury spokesman said: “I am supportive of the idea of a Joint Committee moving forward to deal with the specific implications and consequences of the LIBOR element—what Mr Tyrie refers to as the ring-fence proposals. ”—[ Offi...	5 Jul 2012	NO
No, I am not going to take any more interventions; the hon. Gentleman can sit down. We should be seeing the investment from the bank bonus tax and a temporary cut in VAT. The Bill— [Interruption.] Order. Please—I cannot hear Mr Esterson speak. The Bill does nothing to help grow the economy or get us out of the problems we face. The House should vote against it. Question put, That the Bill be now r...	3 Jul 2012	AYE
“Group 6” means Group 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 to VATA 1994 (protected buildings); “relevant consent” means— (a) in the case of an ecclesiastical building to which section 60 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 applies, consent for the approved alterations by a competent body with the authority to approve alterations to such buildings, or(b) in any other case, conse...	3 Jul 2012	AYE
The Exchequer impact is also in question. The Exchequer says that the measure will raise money, but the Self Storage Association’s brief states: “In its calculations the Government has not taken into account the significant reclaim of VAT under the CGS rules, which Deloitte have calculated to be £43m based on the detailed results of their survey…According to Deloitte many operators, particularly t...	3 Jul 2012	NO
I will have to bring the Back-Bench speeches to an end at 19 minutes past, so there are three minutes left. I strongly support the brilliant speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Cathy Jamieson) and for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman). There are clearly qualms on the Conservative Benches about this disastrous policy. The hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Nadine Dorrie...	2 Jul 2012	NO

June 2012 14 votes

Division	Date	Vote
My hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly said that, in the previous Parliament when we introduced individual registration, there was consensus on the timetable, and it is more important to get the measure right and to make the register comprehensive than it is to do what the Conservative party in the coalition is doing, which is to make it more difficult to create an accurate register, meaning tha...	27 Jun 2012	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. The Chair then put forthwith the Questions necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded at that time ( Standing Order No. 83D ). Clauses 22 to 24 ordered to stand part of the Bill.	27 Jun 2012	NO
at separate times when they could be doubled up. There is therefore much sense in holding elections at the same time. In some polling stations there had been queues at other times of the day, but by about 9 o’clock—and certainly by 9.15 or 9.30—there were serious issues. One extra staff member was deployed at the Ann Tayler centre at 9 pm, where there were particular problems, but, a whole hour be...	27 Jun 2012	NO
I understand, Mr Williams, that you do not wish to move amendment 35. indicated assent. I call Wayne David. As I indicated earlier, we feel that this is a very good amendment on an extremely important issue, so we would like to move it. Amendment proposed: 35, page 21, line 23, leave out ‘, so far as is reasonably practicable,’.—(Wayne David.)	27 Jun 2012	NO
He particularly says: “I would welcome a discussion with you on how we can ensure that everything we do in Parliament emphasises our cross-party support for the Armed Forces and the people who serve in them.” In conclusion— claimed to move the closure ( Standing Order No. 36 ). Question put forthwith, That the Question be now put.	26 Jun 2012	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	26 Jun 2012	AYE
I welcome the support of the hon. Member for Leicester West (Liz Kendall) for the single exam board proposal and wholeheartedly congratulate New College school on its transformation, and on the “yes you can, yes you will” ethos. My hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Damian Hinds) raised concerns about grade inflation, early entry for GCSE, re-sits and modularisation, and rightly pointed ou...	26 Jun 2012	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	20 Jun 2012	AYE
Will the Minister explain at what level market-facing pay would be set for a police officer? The motion rests on a misrepresentation of the notion of regional or local, and the hon. Lady is attempting a second misrepresentation by bringing police officers in at this point, when the debate ought to be about the NHS and teachers, and the civil service where it is under the control of central Governm...	20 Jun 2012	NO
It is a pleasure finally to partake of the Committee stage of the Bill and of your chairmanship, Mr Amess. I will give way briefly to the hon. Gentleman, but I will not give way many times. It is slightly disingenuous of the hon. Gentleman to suggest that Northern Ireland is exactly the same as everywhere in Great Britain, given the threat that there was in 2002 to local authority canvassers, part...	18 Jun 2012	NO
I gave the hon. Lady a lot of latitude to correct the record, but she needs to do that only once. My hon. Friend has corrected the record and put the matter straight. I heard the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith) talking from a sedentary position, so let me say that we are working very closely with the Electoral Commission on this matter. It is represented on the programme ...	18 Jun 2012	NO
I am not going to withdraw anything; I will repeat the accusation. The Secretary of State deliberately misled this House. Why, when the Prime Minister spoke to the House and the Secretary of State answered a written question on 7 September , and on all the occasions to which the Leader of the House has referred, did they choose not to correct the record? The Secretary of State never chose to point...	13 Jun 2012	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 62(2) ), That the Bill be now read a Second time.	11 Jun 2012	AYE
On the measures we are proposing on settlement agreements, the all-party group on micro businesses, in its response to the call for evidence on compensated no-fault dismissal, for which I am extremely grateful, supported the idea that employers should have the option of using “a new simpler route to end employment relationships”. The all-party group states that in return for compensation employers...	11 Jun 2012	NO

May 2012 11 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 62(2) ), That the Bill be now read a Second time.	23 May 2012	AYE
The great electoral reforms of the past were steered through Parliament by names that stand tall in the annals of our democratic history: Lord Grey, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Lloyd George. We remember, too, Stanley Baldwin, Clem Attlee and Harold Wilson, who all in their own way strengthened the franchise and its integrity, and in so doing strengthened our democracy. I put it to the...	23 May 2012	NO
People want the security and assurance of knowing that they can go to local co-operatives and be offered loans if they save, whereas they would be excluded from high street banks, which would say, “You’re too poor. We can’t give you an overdraft”, but if people were in a One hon. Member—I think it was the hon. Member for Harrow West (Mr Thomas) , who is no longer in his place—referred to mutuals s...	22 May 2012	NO
matters through the courts, which is frustrating. They feel that the FSA is not responding to them adequately. There are great delays in the system. The Minister has commented on the legal aspect of collective actions currently going through. May we have some reassurance today that the FSA will act more promptly in dealing with these matters? I am sorry that the Minister felt it necessary to rejec...	22 May 2012	NO
cuts, because the forecast baseline for council tax benefit expenditure that is being used for the Bill is expected, miraculously—from my point of view and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington North—to fall. Do Members really believe that demand for council tax benefit will decline in the next two years, in the light of the current state of the economy and the fact that we are now back...	21 May 2012	AYE
I am going to make some progress if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me— [ Interruption. ] Very well, I will give way on that point, but I may not again. The Minister says that the system is being reformed because of the complications of the current system. The Secretary of State, in his initial statement to the House, said that the Government’s objective was to create a new and simpler system. Doe...	21 May 2012	NO
“(3) Information may be prescribed under sub-paragraph (2)(c) by reference to— (a) how the first-mentioned authority obtained the information; (b) the purpose for which the first-mentioned authority believes that the information would be useful to the other authority.” (6) This section comes into force at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.’. — (An...	21 May 2012	NO
Question accordingly negatived Main Question put.	17 May 2012	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Amendment proposed : at the end of the Question to add:	17 May 2012	NO
The hon. Member for Redcar (Ian Swales) attacked Labour very effectively. I should like to pick up a point made by the right hon. Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) , the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, who said that the welfare-to-work programme is unlikely to be good value for money. I differ from her on that. The big difference with the welfare-to-work programme is that we will not ...	17 May 2012	NO
To conclude, whether we are talking about an income tax cut for 24 million people, taking 2 million of the Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the Labour years in office was what we got for all the money that was wasted and all the debt that was racked up. Nothing. In addition, there was an infrastructure deficit that was as bad as the financial deficit. Long-term security of energy supplies? Nothing....	16 May 2012	NO

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