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Christopher Huhne
Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh
- Secretary of State, Energy and Climate Change (since 12 May 2010) (note about dates)
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Topics of interest
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- Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Christopher Huhne voted on key issues:
- Voted moderately for increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against equal gay rights. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted very strongly against introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted moderately against replacing Trident. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Has never voted on university tuition fees. votes
- Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted very strongly against a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted very strongly for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly for encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately for more EU integration. votes
- Voted very strongly against allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
- Voted very strongly for an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted moderately for a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
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): Departmental Legislation, Information Technology, Departmental Security, Departments: Air Conditioning, Offenders
(based on written questions asked by Christopher Huhne and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Finance Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
- National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (1 out of 4)
Most recent appearances
- Energy and Climate Change: Photovoltaics (26 Jan 2012)
“Ministers and officials meet regularly with a range of stakeholders from the solar photovoltaic industry. Details of meetings between Department of Energy and Climate Change Ministers and external organisations are published quarterly on the DECC website. The recent consultation on feed-in tariffs for solar PV closed on 23 December 2011. More than 2,300 responses were received and are being...”
- Energy and Climate Change: Photovoltaics (26 Jan 2012)
“I entirely reject the idea that there is no future for the industry. The reality is that we would be able to support at least twice as many installations at the new tariff rate as we could under the old one. The hon. Lady asks about the costs of the legal cases. I merely point out to her that we are spending a few thousand pounds in order to save consumers £1.5 billion, which is what the...”
- Energy and Climate Change: Photovoltaics (26 Jan 2012)
“The hon. Lady conveniently omits to mention that the design flaw in the scheme introduced by the Leader of the Opposition ensured that there was absolutely no way of automatically reducing the tariffs in line with what was going on in the real world, despite the fact that other countries—Germany, for example—had introduced such schemes. All we had to do was find out was happening...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 17 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.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a medium number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 66.60% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 19 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well 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") 493 times in debates — above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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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 | 2003/04 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £4,080 (569th) | £3,970 (580th) | £9,759 (562nd) | £4,909 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £21,201 (163rd) | £20,641 (206th) | £23,333 (joint 143rd with 1 other) | £28,229 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £100,296 (155th) | £90,637 (174th) | £84,252 (324th) | £75,520 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £10,510 (153rd) | £9,957 (151st) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £8,661 (257th)1 | £10,184 (215th)2 | £6,365 (376th)3 | £3,460 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £52 (joint 377th with 1 other) | £152 (347th) | £250 (joint 303rd with 2 others) | £126 | ||||
| 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 | £4,099 (253rd) | £971 (235th) | £3,413 (38th) | £1,146 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £1,570 (joint 451st with 1 other) | £10,437 (31st) | £2,507 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,103 (joint 492nd with 1 other) | £1,022 (joint 378th with 3 others) | £1,022 | |||||
| Other Costs | £240 (92nd) | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £149,139 (336th) | £139,185 (418th) | £138,831 (303rd) | £116,919 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,550 (314th). Rail £5,136 (180th). Misc £5 (250th). Other: Rail £574 (36th). European £396 (107th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £2,530 (337th). Rail £5,995 (153rd). Other: Rail £602 (33rd). Air £309 (20th). European £748 (77th).
3 Car £3,124 (306th). Rail £2,715 (279th). Air £526 (149th).