• Conservative MP for Wellingborough
• Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
• Majority: 687 votes. — 604th out of 631 MPs.
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• Voting record
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How Peter Bone voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted for a transparent Parliament. votes, speeches
• Voted strongly for introducing a smoking ban. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes, speeches
• Voted moderately against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes, speeches
• Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. votes, speeches
• Voted against equal gay rights. votes, speeches

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

• Occasionally rebels against their party in this parliament.

Select Committee membership

• Member, Health Committee (since 20 Aug 2008)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee) (since 1 Nov 2005)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (since 29 Jun 2005)

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Health, Treasury, Home Department, Defence, Education and Skills

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Waiting Times, Human Trafficking, Police, Secondary Schools (Wellingborough), Waiting Lists/Times

(based on written questions asked by Peter Bone and answered by departments)

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: SATs Testing (22 Jul 2008)

“The Secretary of State has said that he is accountable. If that is so, why has he not resigned?”

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Iraq (22 Jul 2008)

“I congratulate the Prime Minister on the positive statement that he has been able to make and on the work that the Defence Secretary has done in this area. May I ask the Prime Minister specifically about one of the key tasks to which he referred? Why has there been a delay in providing for local elections, and could he update the House on what is going to happen?”

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: National Insurance: Foreign Workers (22 Jul 2008)

“To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of national insurance numbers issued to migrant workers in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.”

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• Has spoken in 151 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 165 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
• Is a member of 3 select committees.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2007, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 77% of votes in parliament — above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 81 comments on this MP's speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
• This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 15–16 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 92 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Peter Bone speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 230 times in debates — above 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 £3,923 (248th). Rail £1,449 (384th). European £742 (59th).