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Alan Beith
Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Entered Parliament on 8 November 1973 — unknown
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Alan Beith voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted moderately for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly against the Iraq war. votes
- Voted strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly against the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing foundation hospitals. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Health, Trade and Industry, Communities and Local Government, Treasury
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Unpaid Advisers, Correspondence, Parliamentary Advisers, Project Sponsorship, Departmental Report
(based on written questions asked by Alan Beith and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Hunting Bill Committee (14 out of 16)
Most recent appearances
- Upcoming Business – Lords: Select Committee (23 May 2012)
“Constitution: Accountability of civil servants.
Witnesses: (at 10.15am) Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Public Accounts Committee; Bernard Jenkin MP, Public Administration Committee; and Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP, Justice Select Committee and Liaison Committee.”- Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Imprisonment (Crime Rate) (15 May 2012)
“Presuming that, even under the prescription of my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), most prisoners will eventually be released, is there not a danger that putting massive expenditure into an ever-increasing prison population would mean cutting expenditure to ensure that when people are released, they do not commit more crimes?”
- Bills Presented: Home Affairs and Justice (10 May 2012)
“It is a pleasure to follow my colleague, the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz). He made an interesting point about family visas, and he and I sat behind entry clearance officers in Mumbai and New Delhi, trying to work out why they generated so many appeals and discovering that, for example, people’s tendency to tell untruths...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 59 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 33 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 82.30% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 8 annotations on this MP’s speeches — average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 19–20 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 2038 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (ranking out of 659) | 2003/04 (ranking out of 658) | 2002/03 (ranking out of 657) | 2001/02 (ranking out of 657) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £13,459 (457th) | £17,686 (446th) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £15,674 | £12,595 (536th) | £12,637 (526th) | £19,719 (249th) | £17,329 (79th) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £11,978 (533rd) | £13,491 (503rd) | £18,730 (443rd) | £26,706 | £18,631 (295th) | £18,799 (joint 13th with 178 others) | £16,907 (482nd) | £20,525 (151st) |
| Staffing costs | £95,277 (327th) | £85,593 (394th) | £81,048 (421st) | £64,330 | £65,969 (526th) | £63,436 (533rd) | £65,745 (177th) | £44,222 (396th) |
| Communications Allowance | £15,490 (24th) | £12,638 (46th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £10,244 (192nd)1 | £11,353 (166th)2 | £9,417 (248th)3 | £10,804 | £14,536 (156th) | £13,372 (200th) | £14,438 (161st) | £11,429 (154th) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £1,735 (30th) | £2,349 (15th) | £1,298 (87th) | £2,851 | £799 (joint 217th with 1 other) | £1,553 (95th) | £1,700 (72nd) | £1,706 (joint 56th with 1 other) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £228 (273rd) | £742 (156th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £5,246 (165th) | £645 (398th) | £818 (358th) | £571 | £523 (joint 491st with 1 other) | £545 (488th) | £964 (354th) | £729 (440th) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,040 (232nd) | £1,386 (523rd) | £2,288 | £2,667 (309th) | £1,807 (449th) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,307 (joint 175th with 1 other) | £1,365 (26th) | £0 | £1,717 (507th) | £1,717 (498th) | £1,475 (552nd) | £1,475 (479th) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £3,719 (39th) | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £153,657 (282nd) | £152,563 (228th) | £136,172 (357th) | £123,224 | £117,437 (455th) | £113,866 (446th) | £120,948 (145th) | £97,415 (126th) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,148 (356th). Rail £7,279 (102nd). Air £603 (114th). Misc £110 (157th). Other: Mileage £70 (62nd). Rail £34 (142nd).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,916 (301st). Rail £7,976 (86th). Air £350 (131st). Misc £111 (151st).
3 Car £2,337 (385th). Rail £6,280 (119th). Air £800 (124th).