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Alison Seabeck
Labour MP for Plymouth, Moor View

  • Also represented Plymouth, Devonport
  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Alison Seabeck voted on key issues:

  • Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted moderately against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
  • Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
  • Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
  • Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
  • Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Defence, Communities and Local Government, Health, Transport, Work and Pensions

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Housing Benefit, Housing: Construction, Consultants, Aircraft Carriers, Defence: Procurement

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Business of the House (17 May 2012)

“I am sure that the Leader of the House will want to listen to the catalogue of disasters that has affected my constituent, Mr Garnett Smith. He has a problem with HMRC, which keeps taking money from two separate employer relationships that he has. On 31 January, I wrote to HMRC and the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury. By 18 April, there was no reply so I chased it up. I was told that I...”

Business of the House (10 May 2012)

“Would it be possible, although I appreciate that it might not be next week, to have a debate about the way in which the arrangements for transferring child-related benefits from one parent to another are failing? They are failing fathers in particular. A number of constituents are coming to me to say that there are such delays with child benefit and other child-related tax benefits, and that...”

Written Answers — Education: Pupils: Disadvantaged (1 May 2012)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools in Plymouth Unitary Authority have received funding from the pupil premium; and how many pupils in each such school have attracted payment of the pupil premium.”

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  • Has spoken in 61 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 120 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 76.46% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
  • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 135 times in debates — 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.

Type2008/09 (ranking out of 647)2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Staying away from main home£17,960 (358th) £20,037 (387th) £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) £21,634        
London costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Office running costs£22,073 (118th) £21,169 (164th) £20,846 (251st) £24,476        
Staffing costs£96,949 (275th) £89,712 (243rd) £86,811 (210th) £61,014        
Communications Allowance£9,433 (282nd) £5,760 (423rd) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£10,317 (190th)1 £11,578 (157th)2 £9,970 (216th)3 £8,679        
Members' Staff Travel£43 (joint 388th with 1 other) £203 (322nd) £509 (220th) £395        
Members' Spouse Travel£0 £0 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£5,349 (joint 158th with 1 other) £642 (400th) £913 (310th) £569        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,224 (532nd) £3,217 (joint 263rd with 1 other) £1,810 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,071 (joint 516th with 5 others) £1,014 (joint 385th with 19 others) £1,014        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Total£162,122 (165th) £151,396 (250th) £145,390 (168th) £119,591        

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £194 (563rd). Rail £9,897 (47th). Other: Rail £226 (75th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £280 (573rd). Rail £10,766 (31st). Other: Rail £532 (41st).

3 Car £406 (571st). Rail £8,541 (57th). Other £1,023 (24th).

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Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Communities and Local Government Committee (10 Aug 2009 to 11 May 2010)
  • Chairman, South West Regional Select Committee (12 Mar 2009 to 11 May 2010)
  • Member, South West Regional Select Committee (4 Mar 2009 to 12 Mar 2009)
  • PPS (Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State), Department for Transport (10 Dec 2008 to unknown)
  • Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (9 Nov 2007 to 14 Nov 2007)
  • Assistant Whip (funded by HM Treasury) (28 Jun 2007 to 6 Oct 2008)
  • Member, Communities and Local Government Committee (28 Jun 2006 to 24 Oct 2006)
  • PPS (Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office (8 May 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)
  • Member, Regulatory Reform Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 7 Nov 2007)
  • Member, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee (14 Jul 2005 to 28 Jun 2006)

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