• Labour MP for Loughborough
• Majority: 1,996 votes. — 552nd out of 631 MPs.
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How Andy Reed voted on key issues since 2001:

• Has never voted on a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly for introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for introducing foundation hospitals. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for introducing student top-up fees. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately for the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes, speeches

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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record

• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Select Committee membership

• Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) (since 6 Dec 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Culture Media and Sport, Education and Skills, Health, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Treasury

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Olympics, Hearing Impaired, Physical Activity, Education Funding, Sunday Trading

(based on written questions asked by Andy Reed and answered by departments)

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Social Enterprise Start-ups (22 Jul 2008)

“My hon. Friend is right to say that social enterprise, especially co-operatives, can play an important part in delivering very local services. The capital money is worth while and very valued, but will he ensure that there is a culture, right through the NHS, that ensures that when people come forward with co-operative or social enterprise ideas, they are not rejected out of hand? This should...”

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: G8 Summit (16 Jul 2008)

“As my right hon. Friend is aware, water and sanitation made it back into the G8 communiqué after a five-year absence. Is he also aware that a cross-party group of MPs has just returned from a slum survivor event, at which we tried to highlight the fact that one in six people in the world live in slums? Water and sanitation will make an enormous difference to those people. Does my right...”

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Gift Aid (10 Jul 2008)

“If he will bring forward proposals to improve the effectiveness of the gift aid scheme for voluntary organisations working in the area of community sport.”

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• Has spoken in 32 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 35 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 1 select committee.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2007, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 83% of votes in parliament — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 1 comment on this MP's speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 74 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Andy Reed speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 127 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register last updated: 22 Jul 2008. More about the Register

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Figures in brackets are ranks. Parliament's explanatory notes.

^* Car £5,436 (116th). Rail £132 (544th).