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Chloe Smith
Conservative MP for Norwich North

  • Entered Parliament on 24 July 2009 — Byelection

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Chloe Smith voted on key issues:

  • Voted moderately against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
  • Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. 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 very strongly for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
  • Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
  • Voted for laws to stop climate change. votes
  • Voted strongly for more EU integration. votes
  • Voted against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
  • Voted moderately for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
  • Voted very strongly against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
  • Voted for replacing Trident. votes
  • Voted very strongly for greater autonomy for schools. votes

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Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Work and Pensions, Health, Children, Schools and Families, Communities and Local Government, Justice

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Driving Offences: Norwich, Schools: Norwich, Incapacity Benefit: Norwich, Post Offices: Norwich, Crime: Norwich

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Upcoming Business – Commons: Select Committee (29 Feb 2012)

“Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Natural Environment White Paper. 1:00 pm; Location to be confirmed
Witnesses: Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, Minister of State, Cabinet Office, and Chloe Smith MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury”

Written Answers — Treasury: City of London Corporation (9 Feb 2012)

“Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings. A list of ministerial meetings with external organisations is published...”

Written Answers — Treasury: Departmental Data Protection (9 Feb 2012)

“holding answer 8 February 2012 There is no record of any data loss in HM Treasury in 2011, but there have been three accidental breaches of confidentiality during that period. The three accidental breaches in confidentiality came from low risk emails inadvertently being sent to “no need to know” addressees. On each of these occasions, immediate action was undertaken to...”

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  • Has spoken in 12 debates in the last year — well below average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — Ministers do not ask written questions.
  • Has voted in 91.70% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well above average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well below average amongst MPs.
  • This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 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") 48 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payment of £850 from Deloitte MCS Ltd, 2 New Street Square, London, for business consultancy. Hours worked: 1 week, prior to resignation, post by-election.
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Conservative Friends of Israel; Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Address of donor: 45b Westbourne Terrace, London W2 3UR
Amount of donation: £974 from CFI; £574 from Israeli Ministry
Destination of visit: Israel and West Bank
Date of visit: 29 May–3 June 2011
Purpose of visit: Fact finding political delegation to Israel and West Bank
(Registered 17 June 2011)

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

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Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Work and Pensions Committee (24 Nov 2009 to 11 May 2010)

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