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Chris Bryant
Labour MP for Rhondda
- Entered Parliament on 7 June 2001 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
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- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Chris Bryant voted on key issues since 2001:
- Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted very strongly for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted very strongly for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for the hunting ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
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More on well-known issues (from the Guardian) & their full record
- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Home Department, Work and Pensions, Culture Media and Sport, Treasury
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Public Expenditure, Government Hospitality: Wines, Teenage Pregnancy, Departmental Official Cars, Departmental Manpower
(based on written questions asked by Chris Bryant and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Legislation (Territorial Extent) Bill Committee (1 out of 2)
- Mental Health Bill Committee (10 out of 12)
- Criminal Defence Service Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
- Racial and Religious Hatred Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Consumer Credit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Civil Partnership Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
- Finance Bill Committee (10 out of 21)
- Communications Bill Committee (19 out of 25)
- Sexual Offences Bill Committee (9 out of 10)
- Copyright, etc. and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Office of Communications Bill Committee (4 out of 8)
Most recent appearances
- Points of Order (2 Feb 2012)
“On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will know that previous Speakers have ruled that when a Minister relies on a document for their argument, they are then required to publish it to the House. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury earlier referred to documents that he had signed, so surely he should publish those to the House.”
- Points of Order (2 Feb 2012)
“No, this is a new one.”
- Business of the House (2 Feb 2012)
“The Government plan to introduce a draft parliamentary privilege Bill soon. May I urge the Leader of the House to delay the publication of that report, unlike all the other recommendations, until the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has finished its report into phone hacking? I am not on that Committee, but it might well suggest that those who have lied to Parliament, including...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 144 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 37 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a very high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 74.13% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 64 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above 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") 1175 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Payments for articles for The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU:
10 June 2010, payment of £285. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 11 October 2010)
13 September 2010, payment of £285. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 11 October 2010)
Payment of £85. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 14 February 2011)
Payment of £85. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 14 February 2011)
Payment of £200. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 11 April 2011)
Payment of £285. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 30 August 2011)
Payments for articles for Mail on Sunday, Associated Newspapers, 2 Derry Street, Kensington, W8 5TT:
Payment of £1,000. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 31 March 2011)
Payment of £1,000. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 11 April 2011)
Payment of £1,400. Hours: 2 hrs. (Registered 18 July 2011)
Payments from MGN Limited for articles in the Daily Mirror, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP:
Payment of £300 for article. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 19 July 2011)
Payment of £500 for article. Hours: 1 hr. (Registered 30 August 2011)
Payment of £15,375 from Transworld Publishers, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA, as an advance for a book to be published in 2014. (Registered 18 July 2011)
Payments from The Independent, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT:
Payment of £5,833.34. Hours: 20 hrs. (Registered 26 October 2011)
Payment of £2,916.67 for a weekly column. Hours: 8 hrs. (Registered 28 November 2011)
4. Sponsorships
(a) Donations to my constituency party or association, which have been or will be reported by my party to the Electoral Commission:
(a) Fundraising dinner held by the Rhondda Labour Party which raised £6,964, including the following donation: (Registered 18 July 2011)
(a) Name of donor: Craig Fraser
(a) Address of donor: private
(a) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,450
(a) Donor status: individual
(a) (Registered 18 July 2011)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: EU Russia Centre
Address of donor: 22-24 Rue de Luxembourg, B-1060 Brussels, Belgium
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2,500
Destination of visit: Moscow
Date of visit: 19-21 September 2010
Purpose of visit: to visit a series of human rights organisations and witness the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev
(Registered 26 October 2010)
7. Overseas benefits and gifts
Name of donor: Vanity Fair,
Address of donor : Condé Nast, New York
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets for charity fundraising dinner for the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, Combatting Childhood Cancer Charity; total value £3,000
Date of receipt of donation: 22 September 2011
Date of acceptance of donation: 22 September 2011
Donor status: company
(Registered 26 October 2011)
8. Land and Property
Residential property in London from which rental income is received.
Register last updated: 13 Jan 2012. 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.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 (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 | £23,367 (125th) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,634 | £20,902 (joint 1st with 187 others) | £20,333 (joint 3rd with 149 others) | £19,722 (joint 1st with 230 others) | £18,009 (joint 2nd with 55 others) |
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Office running costs | £17,009 (353rd) | £15,193 (461st) | £17,507 (497th) | £17,022 | £18,511 (311th) | £18,710 (joint 339th with 1 other) | £18,234 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £35,384 (13th) |
| Staffing costs | £94,299 (352nd) | £88,356 (297th) | £86,284 (239th) | £84,037 | £73,319 (214th) | £71,003 (167th) | £67,975 (147th) | £41,551 (480th) |
| Communications Allowance | £7,759 (374th) | £8,880 (287th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £11,446 (152nd)1 | £10,378 (209th)2 | £9,486 (245th)3 | £10,799 | £14,963 (141st) | £14,957 (150th) | £12,589 (220th) | £9,243 (joint 258th with 1 other) |
| Members' Staff Travel | £1,512 (joint 40th with 1 other) | £1,850 (29th) | £2,281 (31st) | £1,420 | £1,673 (103rd) | £2,047 (52nd) | £1,135 (143rd) | £543 (230th) |
| Members' Spouse Travel | £0 | £0 | 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 | £4,443 (220th) | £467 (509th) | £823 (355th) | £1,360 | £1,116 (252nd) | £997 (252nd) | £1,125 (joint 278th with 1 other) | £2,664 (31st) |
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £990 (joint 565th with 2 others) | £1,273 (544th) | £6,885 | £2,166 (378th) | £2,150 (383rd) | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,204 (joint 318th with 1 other) | £1,099 (joint 242nd with 5 others) | £1,099 | £1,907 (joint 286th with 5 others) | £1,907 (joint 282nd with 5 others) | £1,907 (joint 279th with 5 others) | £1,907 (joint 262nd with 5 others) | |
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total | £159,835 (198th) | £150,401 (260th) | £140,863 (264th) | £144,256 | £134,557 (117th) | £132,104 (90th) | £122,687 (108th) | £109,301 (21st) |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,980 (275th). Rail £8,373 (70th). Other: Rail £93 (105th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,082 (290th). Rail £5,242 (176th). Misc £1 (263rd). Other: Rail £102 (114th). European £1,951 (15th).