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Brandon Lewis
Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Brandon Lewis voted on key issues:
- Voted for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. 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 more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
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- Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Communities and Local Government, Business, Innovation and Skills, Health, Work and Pensions, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Postal Services, RRS Discovery, Public Transport: Concessions, James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Pensions
(based on written questions asked by Brandon Lewis and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- PREVENTION OF SOCIAL HOUSING FRAUD BILL Committee (1 out of 1)
- Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
- Local Government Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Localism Bill Committee (24 out of 24)
Most recent appearances
- Planning (Mottingham) (21 May 2013)
“I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) on securing this important debate. It is important to the people of Mottingham and the Porcupine pub, but it also gives us a chance—as we have heard from the hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland), the chairman of the all-party parliamentary save the pub group and from the hon....”
- Planning (Mottingham) (21 May 2013)
“I will give way briefly.”
- Planning (Mottingham) (21 May 2013)
“I was about to say something about that. There is sometimes a gap when a company buys a property that was not already listed and does not need to demolish it. The first a resident may know about it is when the boarding goes up advertising whichever company that happens to be. That may be the first indication that Enterprise Inns, or whoever, has sold it off. As I have said, we do not intend...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 35 debates in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 12 written questions in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 87.08% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 11 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.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 151 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
Register last updated: 7 May 2013. More about the Register