Mr Stephen Dorrell | ProjectParly

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 2013 12 votes

Division	Date	Vote
We accept the need to go further. Accordingly, we will be adopting the commission’s recommendation that the Prudential Regulation Authority should be given a secondary competition objective, and we will table amendments to the Bill to that effect in the autumn. Hear, hear. I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s contribution. The regulator will be created under the Bill, and given that it will be set u...	9 Jul 2013	NO
Division 50	9 Jul 2013	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Bill to be further considered tomorrow. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 119(11) ),	8 Jul 2013	AYE
Although the Minister clearly cannot intervene in investigations by the Serious Fraud Office because prosecutorial authorities are quite separate from the Executive, which has always been the case and will, I am sure, continue to be the case for centuries to come, it would be useful for him to indicate what the state of play is in relation to breaches of existing criminal law that might give rise ...	8 Jul 2013	NO
There is also the international dimension. Part of the rationale for the Government’s current position on the 3% leverage ratio—or a leverage ratio of 33:1, if we want to put it that way—is that it is part of the new Basel regime. However, we have a particular issue in the UK. We are a global—some would say the main global—financial centre, but in a medium-sized economy. That gives us many great s...	8 Jul 2013	NO
(6) A statement under this section must be published by the regulator concerned in the way appearing to the regulator to be best calculated to bring it to the attention of the public. (7) A regulator may charge a reasonable fee for providing a person with a copy of the statement published under this section. (8) A regulator must, without delay, give the Treasury a copy of any statement which it pu...	8 Jul 2013	NO
Question accordingly agreed to. Question put, That the Bill be now read a Second time.	5 Jul 2013	AYE
“No important new policy can be decided in Brussels or anywhere else without the consent of a British Minister answerable to a British government and British Parliament.” Since that time, we have seen those assurances undermined time and again. I hope the Prime Minister is successful in negotiating a new relationship. If he succeeds in doing so, I will be cheering him and I will campaign for a yes...	5 Jul 2013	AYE
The hon. Gentleman mentions the important pursuit of growth. Will he enlighten the House on what happened to his party’s five-point plan for growth, including his commitment to a reduction in VAT? We are desperately keen for the Government to bring forward any measures—whether measures on VAT or bringing forward capital infrastructure—that would stimulate growth. Any Chancellor worth his or her sa...	2 Jul 2013	AYE
Order. Mr Newmark, this is not an opportunity for you to make a speech; it was an intervention on new clause 10, and we would like it to be relevant. Will the hon. Lady give way? No, I will not give way now, as I want to carry on with my argument. There may be an opportunity later. and sticking fast. The Chancellor and the Prime Minister have also tried to pass this off as everybody else’s fault, ...	2 Jul 2013	NO
segment of the debate, one of the key issues is tax avoidance, and Government Members made great play of the fact that the higher rate of income tax introduced at the end of the last Labour Government was not going to deliver much revenue because people would attempt to avoid it. I can understand that argument, but I think they are wrong, because we did not have a long enough period to see it work...	1 Jul 2013	NO
for which the House has determined tax relief should be available. One might find people retiring earlier or locating in other jurisdictions. All those things have an impact. I sympathise somewhat with the point of the hon. Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans) about his and his party’s desire to target bankers, but if we want to create an entrepreneurial society, we must realise that not all the big we...	1 Jul 2013	NO

June 2013 18 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 62(2) ), That the Bill be now read a Second time.	26 Jun 2013	AYE
Will the Minister give way? I am sorry, but no. I have very little time and a lot to say to reply to the debate. My hon. Friends the Members for Tewkesbury (Mr Robertson) and for The Cotswolds (Geoffrey Clifton-Brown) asked that we say once again what the costs are. I will give those figures to the House now. For phase 1, it is £21.4 billion in 2011 prices, and for phase 2, it is £21.2 billion, ma...	26 Jun 2013	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	25 Jun 2013	AYE
No, she clearly thinks that the House is still too confrontational, or too male-dominated or testosterone-driven. I am not entirely sure what she considers to be the cause of the tension. Finally, in summing up for the Opposition the hon. Member for Harrow West touched on many of the issues that his hon. Friends had raised in the debate, in particular the code of conduct. The Government’s position...	25 Jun 2013	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	19 Jun 2013	AYE
All the skills to which I have referred are crucial in a modern world, and all of them feed into our creative industries. The arts and the creative industries provide huge economic benefit, as was made clear by my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy) . The creative industries are worth more than £36 billion a year, and employ 1.5 million people in the United Kingdom. Culture ha...	19 Jun 2013	NO
He has defended that business strongly. Bill Gates is now doing something that a financial transaction tax would achieve universally, across the world. It would raise money from the speculative, gambling casino economy that the world has become and give it to those who are often mineral rich or agriculture rich but massively exploited by those of us who live on the fat of that speculation. I was g...	18 Jun 2013	NO
Perhaps the Minister might be able to explain why it has taken nearly two years to make that amendment. If I understood him correctly, he said that the evaluation of all this process was being extended to the end of the summer, so if the revised letter is not going out until the end of this month or the end of next month, there will be very little time to judge whether that has made any difference...	12 Jun 2013	AYE
The hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe) seemed to imply that there was no room for practical co-operation, but there absolutely is. Much of our co-operation to fight crime and terrorism does not depend on EU-level instruments. Indeed, our operational partners co-operate closely on a daily basis and that will not change. We have been clear throughout this process that where there i...	12 Jun 2013	NO
I mentioned the national group on sexual violence against children and vulnerable people. The issues we have been discussing today are part of its work, but only a small part, as consideration of the recent cases of organised predatory child abuse will be a significant part of the group’s activity. In response to whether the Home Office will be at the summit next week, I will be there in my role a...	12 Jun 2013	NO
(1) If a pupil of sufficient maturity in attendance at a school to which section 403 applies requests to be wholly or partly excused from receiving sex and relationships education at the school, the pupil shall be so excused accordingly until the request is withdrawn. (2) The Secretary of State must in regulations define “sufficient maturity”. (3) A statutory instrument containing regulations unde...	11 Jun 2013	NO
For this reason, both the all-party group on child protection and the Justice Committee welcomed the Government’s aim of reducing unnecessary delay in the care system. Care must be taken with regard to the target as well. Clause 14 provides the starting point for courts in setting a time for cases; proceedings should come to an end within 26 weeks, as I mentioned. But there is some ambiguity as to...	11 Jun 2013	NO
The hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) , as ever, championed her local hospital, as I expect her always to do, but she spoke about a lack of public consultation and many of us will take away her wise observations on that. It is important to remind the House of the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood. He, like others in the debate, reported that his...	5 Jun 2013	NO
Question accordingly negatived. Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 31(2) ), That the proposed words be there added.	5 Jun 2013	AYE
On humaneness, the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon Hart) made the point far better than I could that the organisations that were arguing for shooting as the most humane method of disposal are now saying it is the least humane; they cannot have it both ways. Humaneness will be looked at as part of the trials. Independent observers will be watching and reporting back. ...	5 Jun 2013	NO
Division 22	5 Jun 2013	AYE
Another councillor contacted me— Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for making the allowance that you have. I thought it was important to put that kind of behaviour in the public domain. The Bill fails to meet four essential tests. First, will this Bill help to reduce energy costs for consumers? At the moment, energy costs for consumers are projected to rise at the rate of about 8% above inflation f...	4 Jun 2013	AYE
Will the hon. Gentleman explain why the Solar Trade Association is opposed to raising the threshold to 10 MW? I have to inform the hon. Gentleman that had I been a representative of the Solar Trade Association I would have declared an interest. I am sure that he and I can both read the briefings it supplies to this House. Indeed, he may wish to enlighten us about this; I will gladly give way if he...	4 Jun 2013	NO

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