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Christopher Leslie
Labour MP for Nottingham East

• Also represented Shipley

• Entered Parliament on 1 May 1997 — General election

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• Voting record
• Topics of interest
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• Register of Members’ Interests
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)

How Christopher Leslie voted on key issues since 2001:

• Voted strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
• Voted strongly for equal gay rights. votes
• Voted very strongly for the hunting ban. votes
• Has never voted on more EU integration. votes
• Voted moderately for university tuition fees. votes
• Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
• Voted against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
• Voted strongly against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
• Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
• Voted moderately for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
• Voted moderately against a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
• Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
• Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
• Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
• Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
• Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals. votes
• Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
• Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
• Voted a mixture of for and against laws to stop climate change. votes
• Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. votes
• Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes

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• Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.

Topics of interest

Asks most questions about

• Departments: Treasury, Business, Innovation and Skills, Communities and Local Government, Education, Health

• Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Northern Rock, Local Government Finance, Child Benefit, Post Offices, Local Government: Public Consultation

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Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)

• Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Financial Services Bill Committee (18 out of 18)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Inquiries Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill Committee (6 out of 10)
• Courts Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Local Government Bill Committee (8 out of 14)
• Civil Defence (Grant) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (3 out of 3)

Most recent appearances

European Union Documents: Part 2 — Property, rights and liabilities of Office of Fair Trading (22 May 2012)

“Let me start by thanking those of my colleagues who served on the Committee that considered the Bill, as well as the trade bodies, consumer groups and others who made representations about it. In particular, I thank members of the Treasury Committee for the time and attention they gave to trying to improve the legislation. I thank also the members of the pre-legislative scrutiny Committee,...”

European Union Documents: Part 2 — Property, rights and liabilities of Office of Fair Trading (22 May 2012)

“I am pointing out that there is a fundamental mismatch. We know that the supervisory authorities have gone for a thematic approach and the Government have gone for a twin peaks approach. Then there is this bizarre committee or secretariat in between to try and be an interlocutor. It is a tremendous spaghetti, diluting our influence on those supervisory decisions. We can already see that the...”

European Union Documents: Clause 47 — Mutual societies: power to transfer functions (22 May 2012)

““Actions speak louder than words”: that is the conclusion that the Minister reached when rebutting this modest amendment. Some Opposition Members said that it was too modest, and not strong enough. You cannot win when you are in Opposition. Sometimes Opposition Members propose amendments and are told that they go much too far, but it seems that this amendment did not go far...”

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Numerology

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• Has spoken in 54 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Has received answers to 70 written questions in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2005, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 78.16% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — 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") 721 times in debates — well above average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)

Register of Members’ Interests

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

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Expenses

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