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Christopher Huhne

Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh

  • Shadow Home Secretary (since 8 Jan 2009)
  • Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
  • Majority: 568 votes. — 618th out of 643 MPs.

Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Christopher Huhne voted on key issues since 2001:

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

Read about how the voting record is decided.

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

Committees and topics of interest

Asks most questions about

  • Departments: Home Department, Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Justice, Treasury, Health

  • Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Information Technology, Departmental Legislation, Departmental Security, Departments: Air Conditioning, Departmental Dismissal

(based on written questions asked by Christopher Huhne and answered by departments)

Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

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Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

“I am sympathetic to the right hon. Gentleman's case for the importance of bonuses in leading to potentially excessive risk taking, but I wonder whether he thinks it necessary to go as far as having new legislation, because the Financial Services Authority already has the power to increase capital requirements for financial institutions that, in its view, are taking extra risks. It could...”

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009)

“To reinforce the right hon. Gentleman's excellent point about Glass-Steagall, does he agree with me that the Canadian example offers no obvious illustration of how such a measure would fail, given that the Canadian banks have never been known for their investment banking activity and are, in effect, universal retail banks?”

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009)

“It would be useful if the Lord Chancellor put on record what I understood him to say earlier from a sedentary position—that the Lord Chief Justice could go on exercising that veto, should he so desire.”

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Numerology

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  • Has spoken in 41 debates in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Has received answers to 485 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
  • Is a member of 0 select committees (0 as chair).
  • Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
  • Has voted in 72% of votes in parliament with this affiliation — average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
  • People have made 14 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.
  • 77 people are tracking whenever this MP speaks — email me whenever Christopher Huhne speaks.
  • Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 235 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Fees for Financial News column (Efinancial news) (£5,001-£10,000)
Speaker's fees from Parliament Communications. (Up to £5,000)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
Support for the running of my office from August 2007 received from:
Lord Sharman of Redlynch.
Name of donor: Lord Sharman
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1500
Date of receipt: 1 October 2009
Date of acceptance: 1 October 2009
Donor status: individual
(Registered 19 October 2009)
6. Overseas visits
8-11 September 2008, to Beijing, China, to attend the second UK-China Leadership of the Future Forum. The visit was arranged and paid for by the UK-China Forum with sponsorship from Barclays Capital, BP and Rolls-Royce, and the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party. (Registered 15 October 2008)
22-24 January 2009, to Versailles, France, to attend a conference organised by the Franco-British Colloque, who paid my accommodation costs. (Registered 4 February 2009)
8. Land and Property
Residential house and flat in Oxford, from which rental income is received.
Residential house and two flats in London, from which rental income is received.
9. Registrable shareholdings
(b) IRISYS, of Towcester, Northants; company makes thermal imagers for process, people and queue monitoring.

Register last updated: 11 Nov 2009. 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 – 2007/08 receipts.

Type2007/08 (ranking out of 645)2006/07 (ranking out of 645)2005/062004/052003/042002/032001/02
Additional Costs Allowance£3,970 (580th) £9,759 (562nd) £4,909        
London Supplement£0 £0 £0        
Incidental Expenses Provision£20,641 (206th) £23,333 (joint 143rd) £28,229        
Staffing Allowance£90,637 (174th) £84,252 (324th) £75,520        
Communications Allowance£9,957 (151st) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Travel£10,184 (215th)* £6,365 (376th)** £3,460        
Members' Staff Travel£152 (347th) £250 (joint 303rd) £126        
Members' Spouse Travel£0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Members' Family Travel£0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Purchased Stationery£971 (235th) £3,413 (38th) £1,146        
Stationery: Associated Postage Costs£1,570 (joint 451st) £10,437 (31st) £2,507 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Centrally Provided Computer Equipment£1,103 (joint 492nd) £1,022 (joint 378th) £1,022        
Other Costs£0 £0 £0        
Total£139,185 (418th) £138,831 (303rd) £116,919        

* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,530 (337th). Rail £5,995 (153rd). Other: Rail £602 (33rd). Air £309 (20th). European £748 (77th).

** Car £3,124 (306th). Rail £2,715 (279th). Air £526 (149th).