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Chuka Umunna
Labour MP for Streatham
- Entered Parliament on 6 May 2010 — General election
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Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Chuka Umunna voted on key issues:
- Has never voted on replacing Trident. votes
- Has never voted on a smoking ban. votes
- Has never voted on more EU integration. votes
- Voted against Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted against automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted very strongly against greater autonomy for schools. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Business, Innovation and Skills, Treasury, Education, Home Department, Transport
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Departmental Apprentices, Business Regulation, Education: Finance, Departmental Regulation, Business
(based on written questions asked by Chuka Umunna and answered by departments)
Most recent appearances
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Office for Fair Access (20 Feb 2012)
“Let me start by congratulating the Business Secretary on securing his preferred appointment to this post. We have no objection to it. We have other concerns, however. Notwithstanding the support of the Minister in Antarctica, the distinct impression has been given that this appointment has been secured as part of some trade-off in the ongoing turf war in Government over higher education...”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 46 debates in the last year — above average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 271 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Has voted in 69.54% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below 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") 74 times in debates — below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
4. Sponsorships
(b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
(b) Name of donor: Lord Bhattacharyya
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1,000 to pay for a member of staff working for me in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (from 7 October 2011) in my frontbench role for the Labour Party. £3,000 donation originally provided to Rt Hon John Denham MP but split after change of brief.
(b) Date of receipt: 7 October 2011
(b) Date of acceptance: 7 October 2011
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 25 October 2011)
(b) Name of donor: GMB
(b) Address of donor: GMB National Office, 22/24 Worple Road, London SW19 4DD
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £1,000 to pay for a member of staff for three months in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and my frontbench role for the Labour Party.
(b) Date of receipt: 7 October 2011
(b) Date of acceptance: 7 October 2011
(b) Donor status: trade union
(b) (Registered 25 October 2011)
(b) Name of donor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
(b) Address of donor: Plumtree Court, London EC4A 4HT
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: the services of a research assistant/analyst to support me in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, for 4 days a week from 7 October 2011 to 23 December 2011; value £30,000
(b) Date of receipt: 7 October 2011
(b) Date of acceptance: 7 October 2011
(b) Donor status: limited liability partnership
(b) (Registered 25 October 2011)
(b) Name of donor: Lord Bhattacharyya
(b) Address of donor: private
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £6,500 to pay for a member of staff working for me in my capacity as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
(b) Date of receipt: 13 December 2011
(b) Date of acceptance: 13 December 2011
(b) Donor status: individual
(b) (Registered 4 January 2012)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: Mr Mike Danson
Address of donor : New Statesman, 7th Floor, John Carpenter House, 7 Carmelite Street, London EC47 0AN
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: I attended the Annual Gala Dinner of the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Charity as a guest of Mr Danson; value £1,500
Date of receipt of donation: 22 September 2011
Date of acceptance of donation: 22 September 2011
Donor status: individual
(Registered 20 October 2011)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Nigel Doughty
Address of donor: Doughty Hanson & Co, 45 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £3,821.73
Destination of visit: Washington
Date of visit: 31 October- 3 November 2011
Purpose of visit: to look at policies to promote SME growth
(Registered 24 November 2011)
11. Miscellaneous
Non-practising solicitor.
Register last updated: 30 Jan 2012. More about the Register