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Ben Gummer
Conservative MP for Ipswich
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Ben Gummer voted on key issues:
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted against a smoking ban. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. 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 strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Health, Home Department, Education, Justice, Business, Innovation and Skills
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Multiple Sclerosis: Drugs, Music: Education, Asylum: Community Relations, Planning, Railways: East of England
(based on written questions asked by Ben Gummer and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Defamation Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
- FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL Committee (4 out of 4)
- Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill Committee (6 out of 10)
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill Committee (18 out of 18)
Most recent appearances
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 4 - Charge and main rate for financial year 2014 (25 Apr 2013)
“Yesterday the hon. Member for East Lothian made some interesting remarks about her experience of working on a zero-hours contract, which she said was useful for her at that moment. Will the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun take that into account when she talks about zero-hours contracts?”
- Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 4 - Charge and main rate for financial year 2014 (25 Apr 2013)
“Does my hon. Friend agree that the burden falls particularly hard on those larger small businesses and smaller medium-sized enterprises that, by their nature, must create a more complicated corporate structure—normally because they are selling different products in different markets—and employ tax planning of the kind he describes? That is not such a cost for a large...”
- Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (25 Apr 2013)
“The Minister and the Secretary of State will know that the world’s largest financial centre is connected by the great eastern main line to some of the leading centres of research and development in the country, yet commuters and travellers can expect to use rolling stock that was unsuitable for travellers on the west coast main line 10 years ago. The Government have invested heavily in...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 20 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 15 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 82.35% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 8 annotations on this MP’s speeches — 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.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 70 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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