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Alun Cairns
Conservative MP for Vale of Glamorgan

    • Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Alun Cairns voted on key issues:

    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted very strongly for university tuition fees. votes
    • Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
    • Voted for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted moderately against equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
    • Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Culture Media and Sport, Business, Innovation and Skills, Treasury, Energy and Climate Change, Work and Pensions

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Broadband, Departmental Consultants, Mobile Phones, S4C: Finance, Business: Government Assistance

    (based on written questions asked by Alun Cairns and answered by departments)

    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Fundraising Standards Board (20 May 2013)

    “To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how his Department scrutinises the Fundraising Standards Board; when a review was last conducted; and what the outcome was of this review.”

    Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (16 May 2013)

    “Pillar two funding of the post-2014 CAP arrangements are vital to continue the rural development in the Vale of Glamorgan. Local decision making and administration has been key to that success in the past. This is at risk. Will the Secretary of State do everything possible to ensure that it is maintained?”

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    Register of Members’ Interests

    2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Received from ComRes, 4 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA, payment of £450 for six surveys in April 2012, July 2012, September 2012, November-December 2012, and January 2013 and February 2013. Hours: 30 mins per survey, 3 hrs in total. (Registered 23 April 2013)
    5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
    Name of donor: JTIJapan Tobacco International
    Address of donor : Members Hill, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0QU
    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets to Members’ Day at the Chelsea Flower Show; total value £1,188
    Date of receipt of donation: 20 March 2012
    Date of acceptance of donation: 10 April 2012
    Donor status: company, registration number 1501573
    (Registered 8 June 2012)
    Name of donor: ITV Plc
    Address of donor : The London Television Centre, Upper Ground, London SE1 9LT
    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: National Television Awards ticket and hospitality – value £890
    Date of receipt of donation: 23 January 2013
    Date of acceptance of donation: 24 January 2013
    Donor status: Company, registration number 4967001
    (Registered 11 February 2013)
    6. Overseas visits
    Name of donor: Nominet UK
    Address of donor: Minerva House, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4DQ
    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): cost of visit; value £4,500
    Destination of visit: Baku, Azerbaijan
    Date of visit: 5-9 November 2012
    Purpose of visit: parliamentary delegation to Internet Governance Forum
    (Registered 4 December 2012)
    8. Land and Property
    Residential property in Cardiff, from which rental income is received.

    Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register

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