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Anne McGuire
Labour MP for Stirling

    • Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election

    Voting record (from PublicWhip)

    How Anne McGuire voted on key issues since 2001:

    • Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against the hunting ban. votes
    • Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
    • Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
    • Voted strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted moderately against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
    • Voted moderately against a transparent Parliament. votes
    • Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
    • Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
    • Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
    • Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
    • Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
    • Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
    • Voted strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
    • Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
    • Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
    • Voted moderately against laws to stop climate change. votes
    • Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
    • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
    • Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
    • Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes

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    Topics of interest

    Asks most questions about

    • Departments: Work and Pensions, Energy and Climate Change, Health, Treasury, Business, Innovation and Skills

    • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Access to Work Programme, Child Maintenance, Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Remploy

    (based on written questions asked by Anne McGuire and answered by departments)

    Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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    Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Disability Living Allowance/Motability (20 May 2013)

    “The Minister and the Secretary of State have recently been found out using figures that show a dramatic increase in the number of people receiving disability living allowance. To quote the Secretary of State, they wanted “to get in early, get ahead of it”— that is, the PIP. However, Department for Work and Pensions statistics show that there was a significant decrease in the...”

    Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

    “It is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth), although obviously I would not necessarily agree with all his comments. I was not going to say anything about immigration, but sometimes we need to look to ourselves when we talk about that subject. I suspect that there is not one individual here who has not had at one point in their...”

    Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)

    “Very quickly because I want to get on to the main substance of my speech.”

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    Numerology

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    • Has spoken in 30 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
    • Has received answers to 54 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
    • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
    • Has voted in 68.54% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
    • People have made 33 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well 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.
    • 85 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Anne McGuire’s activity.
    • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 329 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

    Register of Members’ Interests

    2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
    Payments from ComRes, 4 Millbank, London, SW1P 3JA, for opinion survey.
    Payment of £75 for April-May 2012. Hours: 45 mins-1 hr. Payment donated directly to Stirling Constituency Labour Party. (Registered 26 July 2012)
    Payment of £75 for opinion survey in 2013. Hours: 45 mins-1 hr. Payment donated directly to Stirling Constituency Labour Party. (Registered 12 April 2013)
    Payments from Dods, 21 Dartmouth Street, London SW1H 9BP, for completing parliamentary survey:
    Payment of £100. Hours: 1 hr. Payment donated directly to Stirling Constituency Labour Party. (Registered 26 July 2012)
    Payment from Ipsos MORI, 79-81 Borough Road, London SE1 1FY, for opinion survey:
    Payment of £150 in October 2012. Hours: 45 mins-1 hr. Payment donated directly to Stirling Constituency Labour Party. (Registered 19 October 2012)
    4. Sponsorships
    (b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
    (b) Address of donor: 39 Ecclestone Square, London SW1V 1BX
    (b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: an education allowance of £4,884, and accommodation, will be provided for an intern in my parliamentary office for 10 months, October 2012-July 2013
    (b) Date of receipt: 8 October 2012
    (b) Date of acceptance: 8 October 2012
    (b) Donor status: registered charity
    (b) (Registered 19 December 2012)

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

    View the history of this MP's entries in the Register

    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)2005/062004/05 (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£18,473 (344th) £19,595 (407th) £21,177 (337th) £19,736 £18,135 (393rd) £18,328 (358th) £18,677 (388th) £15,797 (216th)
    London costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £1,618 (joint 1st with 118 others) £1,574 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,527 (joint 1st with 101 others) £1,227 (joint 1st with 81 others)
    Office running costs£18,548 (289th) £19,994 (240th) £24,498 (105th) £20,045 £18,110 (349th) £18,213 (443rd) £18,106 (joint 336th with 1 other) £24,252 (joint 79th with 1 other)
    Staffing costs£95,976 (301st) £86,623 (362nd) £79,335 (466th) £65,044 £60,332 (606th) £63,915 (515th) £58,830 (553rd) £39,273 (526th)
    Communications Allowance£10,016 (239th) £11,490 (60th) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Members' Travel£14,096 (92nd)1 £14,339 (95th)2 £12,311 (122nd)3 £11,318 £13,912 (176th) £16,613 (106th) £16,680 (100th) £15,058 (73rd)
    Members' Staff Travel£2,088 (15th) £1,353 (61st) £1,288 (88th) £0 £1,439 (127th) £1,558 (joint 92nd with 1 other) £2,251 (37th) £0
    Members' Spouse Travel£1,328 (94th) £2,094 (57th) 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£4,976 (187th) £1,856 (42nd) £1,401 (178th) £1,861 £1,030 (joint 276th with 1 other) £681 (415th) £998 (335th) £951 (351st)
    Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£3,640 (163rd) £4,812 (145th) £5,419 £3,761 (201st) £1,549 (486th) N/A N/A
    Centrally Provided Computer Equipment  £1,781 (6th) £1,883 (4th) £977 £1,567 (553rd) £1,174 (631st) £907 (630th) £907 (577th)
    Other Costs£0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0 £0
    Total£150,964 (316th) £162,765 (69th) £146,705 (142nd) £124,400 £119,904 (401st) £123,605 (joint 234th with 1 other) £117,976 (211th) £97,465 (125th)

    1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,680 (404th). Rail £1,804 (370th). Air £10,365 (30th). Misc £247 (117th).

    2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £1,680 (425th). Rail £2,784 (308th). Air £9,847 (41st). Misc £28 (215th).

    3 Car £2,813 (338th). Rail £565 (465th). Air £8,933 (53rd).