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Andy Slaughter
Labour MP for Hammersmith

  • Also represented Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Andy Slaughter voted on key issues:

  • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
  • Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
  • Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. 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 a stricter asylum system. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a transparent Parliament. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
  • Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
  • Voted strongly against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
  • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
  • Voted very strongly for a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Justice, Home Department, Communities and Local Government, Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs, Departmental Legal Costs, Legal Costs, Legal Aid, EU External Trade: Israel

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (9 Feb 2012)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of (a) (i) employment support allowance, (ii) disability living allowance and (iii) incapacity benefit claimants and (b) applicants for a review of a decision to award (i) employment support allowance, (ii) disability living allowance and (iii) incapacity benefit were from ethnic minorities in the last year for which figures...”

Written Answers — Justice: Civil Proceedings: Legal Costs (9 Feb 2012)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library a copy of any advice his Department received from the Senior Judiciary including the Master of the Rolls on (a) qualified one-way cost shifting and (b) a 10 per cent. uplift in general damages as part of his proposed reform of civil litigation funding and costs.”

Written Answers — Justice: Legal Aid scheme (9 Feb 2012)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the effect on demand for legal aid in respect of private family law of implementation of an assumption of shared parenting.”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 61 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 240 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 74.40% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 12 annotations on this MP’s speeches — above average amongst MPs.
  • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 18–19 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
  • 197 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Andy Slaughter’s activity.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 245 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Populus Limited, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London, EC1V 0AT.
18 March 2011, received £75 for opinion survey interview, February 2011. Hours: 15 mins. Payment donated to my constituency party. (Registered 1 April 2011)
6. Overseas visits
Address of donor: 1 Olympic Way, London HA9 0P
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): Flights, transport within Cairo and Border Visa in Cairo, accommodation and food; total value £680
Destination of visit: Cairo, Egypt
Date of visit: 17-20 March 2011
Purpose of visit: member of CEPR’s parliamentary delegation
(Registered 11 April 2011)
11. Miscellaneous
Barrister (not practising).

Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. More about the Register

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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£0 £0 £0 £0        
London costs£2,916 (joint 1st with 49 others) £2,812 (joint 1st with 47 others) £2,712 (joint 1st with 46 others) £2,360        
Office running costs£25,374 (52nd) £26,347 (34th) £19,731 (392nd) £16,530        
Staffing costs£96,736 (279th) £84,020 (441st) £89,407 (83rd) £86,523        
Communications Allowance£7,476 (381st) £9,899 (170th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£2,719 (556th)1 £3,407 (538th)2 £2,599 (570th)3 £2,391        
Members' Staff Travel£0 £0 £0 £62        
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£6,993 (20th) £985 (228th) £3,321 (42nd) £1,572        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£6,001 (3rd) £10,207 (33rd) £4,786 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £970 (joint 592nd with 1 other) £930 (joint 523rd with 22 others) £930        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0        
Total£142,214 (422nd) £137,153 (449th) £128,907 (471st) £115,154        

1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,004 (494th). Rail £1,136 (444th). Misc £579 (65th).

2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,482 (464th). Rail £1,106 (423rd). Misc £819 (43rd).

3 Car £1,559 (477th). Other £1,040 (22nd).