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Parliamentary History

Conservative

Beckenham

20 Nov 1997 – 6 May 2010 (12 yrs 5 mo)

Ideology spectrum

75.0

ProgressiveCentreConservative

Conservative — based on 8 coded votes across 1 axes (1% coverage).

Policy axis scores

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

Climate / energy 75

Low confidence 8 votes

Voting trends (most recent 12 months of activity)

Voting record

October 2008 26 votes

Division	Date	Vote
Question accordingly negatived. Amendment made: No. 4, page 4, line 8, leave out 'the keeping or using of' and insert 'keeping or using'.— [Dawn Primarolo.] Amendment proposed : No. 47, page 4, line 37, at end insert—	22 Oct 2008	NO
Question accordingly negatived. It being after Six o'clock, Mr. Speaker then proceeded to put the Questions necessary for the disposal of the business to be concluded at that hour, pursuant to Order [this day]. Amendment proposed: No. 41, page 3, line 26 , at end insert—	22 Oct 2008	NO
"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	NO
The general public, whom we represent, have every view and none on the subject, but there is an enormous range of opinion, about which people on both sides feel very passionately. It cuts completely across political party, both for the public and for us, and there is no way in which a particular Member of Parliament can possibly hold himself up as representing the strong feelings that some section...	22 Oct 2008	NO
Division 281	22 Oct 2008	NO
Division 288	22 Oct 2008	AYE
Amendment made: No. 20, page 51, line 42 [Clause 64], at end insert—	22 Oct 2008	NO
Division 285	22 Oct 2008	NO
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	NO
Division 286	22 Oct 2008	NO
Not at this stage, no. I say gently to the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton that it is not surprising that we in the Government should not know from one day to the next whether his party supports the continuation of regional development agencies— Order. It does not matter whether the Minister has two minutes left or not. He is not going to give way. The Opposition flip and they flop, they shilly...	21 Oct 2008	AYE
There will be no automatic right. The Minister told the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) that he wants to preserve the rights of foreign spouses of British nationals, even if they have been here for five years. So when he says there is no automatic right, he means that there is no automatic right unless someone is married. That is the first exception, and there will be others...	21 Oct 2008	AYE
Division 279	21 Oct 2008	AYE
Division 278	21 Oct 2008	NO
Division 277	21 Oct 2008	AYE
Question accordingly negatived. Main Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 62 (Amendment on second or third r eading) :—	20 Oct 2008	NO
The Bill introduces greater transparency to political donations. At various points in the past— Returning to the important theme of the arms race, will my hon. Friend assure the House that when that matter comes before the Committee he will take it very seriously? In the end, the Bill must be about giving confidence not only to Members of Parliament or candidates but to the wider public, who need ...	20 Oct 2008	AYE
Division 276	20 Oct 2008	NO
I know that time is against me, so I shall conclude by saying merely that I believe that it was a good thing that the Electoral Commission stated the following to me: "In our report, we did not recommend the complete removal of candidates' addresses from ballot papers—but we did suggest that addresses on ballot papers"— one of the examples that we all know about— "could be abridged. Giving the fir...	20 Oct 2008	AYE
"(12) Where a child was accommodated by the local authority under this section immediately before being detained, the child shall continue to be deemed a "looked after child" for the purposes of section 23(1)(b) and section 24 of this Act save for the provision of accommodation." (13) In this section "detained" means detained in a remand centre, a young offenders institution or a secure training c...	8 Oct 2008	AYE
Interestingly, new clause 23 touches on some of the same issues, but proposes a more informal approach. It contains some interesting ideas; indeed, I would be rather surprised if something similar were not operating in the best local authorities. I am therefore not convinced that there is a need to legislate at this stage; rather, perhaps new clause 23 sets out some good practice that should be en...	8 Oct 2008	AYE
Division 273	8 Oct 2008	AYE
"if we fail in our endeavours to make the notification scheme work, we will not need to return to the House with primary legislation and we will implement the registration scheme, despite our concerns about whether it will work as well as everyone would like it to."—[ Official Report, Standing Committee B, 21 October 2004 ; c. 289-291.] We believe that local authorities should devise and publish a...	8 Oct 2008	AYE
"that—on average—around 9 per cent. of all statutory instruments transpose EC legislation...I believe this is the correct figure." "has previously researched Mr Farage's claim, made on Today , that this figure is 75 per cent., and found that it is supposedly based on a German government statement, although no-one has actually discovered it. Mark points out, however, that this whole area is a conte...	8 Oct 2008	AYE
Division 270	7 Oct 2008	NO
What would my hon. Friend say to the former miner whom I met only last Thursday? That former miner may have seen this debate in a crystal ball. He was put out of work in the '80s when the north Staffordshire coal mines were not only completely closed, but filled in with concrete day after day. What would my hon. Friend say to him? He is still embittered about it now. I would say to him that there ...	7 Oct 2008	AYE

July 2008 4 votes

Division	Date	Vote
English is an additional language for 75 per cent. of children at Churchill Gardens community primary school, and 55 per cent. of the children there are on free school meals. Is it not a terrific tribute to the school that, through great leadership, a language-rich environment and a powerful focus on communication, it is getting terrific results? That just shows what can be done in a mainstream sc...	21 Jul 2008	NO
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
My hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) described a catalogue of problems in the last two Parliaments and stressed the importance of financial audit. The right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) said that she wanted to make a robust defence of the position in which hon. Members find themselves. She certainly succeeded. She also pointed to the fundamental weakn...	16 Jul 2008	AYE
Division 265	16 Jul 2008	AYE

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